Rebirth of Old School Classics

The Nintendo 3DS will be released a week from today in Japan and a month from that date in the United States.  Nintendo fans eagerly await its arrival and have already set their pre-orderd at their local video game store.  The 3DS is such an exciting piece of hardware, not only for its 3D and its power but because it will be bringing Nintendo 64 Classics and favorites to the platform with all new features.  Among them are Starfox 64, Paper Mario and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.  The latter will be today's topic. 
Ocarina of time was Link's first adventure in a 3 dimensional platform.  When I say 3D, I don't mean the type the 3DS offers but that the character was able to move left, right, forward and backward.  This game was a great success among Nintendo fans.  The legend of Zelda was already a popular series, but the jump into 3D made it even better.  This game sold millions of copies world wide  and now it will be re-released on the 3DS.   It has been re-released before on the gamecube, an exact port of the original, and then again on the Nintendo Wii's virtual console.  The 3DS version however, has enhanced modified graphics, new touch screen features as well as the 3D effect that should prove to revive an old experience.  The question is, will Zelda fans be willing to pay full 3DS software price, $39.99, to play a game that they can just as easily download on the Wii Virtual console for just $10.00?  We will see when the game releases which unfirtunateky will not be as soon as the 3DS launches.  We will have to wait for this one and for Starfox as well.  In the meantime, 3DS owners can brawl it out with Super Street fighter 4: 3D Edition.