Now that Nintendo is finally releasing Game Boy Advance games to consumers for purchase, and not through the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Program, we here at TechnoBuffalo are looking forward to diving into a nice library of portable classics.

Unfortunately, and this is where the Virtual Console gets problematic, Nintendo's only releasing Game Boy Advance games on the Wii U. That's right, portable games are getting Virtual Console treatment on a home console.

The 3DS? Oh, it plays GBA games. We know that because Nintendo released a few to early adopters for free. We loved that notion back then, and it was great that Nintendo shared a few classics with folks who bought into their new handheld early.

Now? Now we have a Virtual Console library that should be available on the go left completely on the Wii U. Not only that, we have a big company with an insane arsenal of classic games that seems to release them in a haphazard way.

Nintendo's Virtual Console service could be one of the best things in gaming, especially for retro nuts like us. As it is now? We're not so sure.

Joey Davidson I think I knew you were getting a little frustrated by Nintendo's decision to release GBA games on the Wii U when I first shot you the trailer of the soon-to-be-ported Advance Wars. You were just like, and I'm sort of ad libbing this here, "This should be portable. Why is this not on the 3DS?" And I agreed, but, man, I could tell you were bummed.

Ron Duwell Yeah, the Nintendo 3DS has been my main platform of choice these days, whether it is on a train or in my apartment. I would love the chance to play and store all of my portable Nintendo classics on one handheld device, but as it stands now, I have a shelf crammed full of Game Boy Advance carts which are becoming more and more cumbersome by the day. I've enjoyed transitioning to digital distribution with the Nintendo 3DS knowing that I have my entire collection with me wherever I go and can fire up whenever I please. If Nintendo wants me to fully embrace this idea and leave physical media behind in the dust, I think it would be best if all the systems were accounted for. And the Game Boy Advance definitely has a few of my all time favorite games in it library.