I bought Mario Kart 64 last night on the Wii. I know that seems kind of silly seeing as how I have an N64 and the game, but I don't need more consoles sitting in my living room either.
I had to use my GameCube controller, which worked OK, though the trigger buttons are variable analog triggers, so it's a little strange. The jump/slide button is the right trigger, and you have to squeeze it all the way to make it work. Ditto for the left, which selects/holds/fires items. It's not ideal. The classic controllers would go a long way toward fixing that.
But here's there other thing. You can download emulators and ROM's for free. I realize that's not legal, but seeing as how I own the originals, frankly I'm not stealing anything. I can use my DVR computer to run these games, and with a $20 USB receiver, even use my Xbox 360 controllers on it. The Wii is sending out 480i video which looks surprisingly not good for the classic games on my HDTV.
They also don't have the games packaged in a way that makes sense. All of the NES Mario games were packaged together, with the SNES Mario, into one cart for the SNES (all graphically updated), and of course they don't offer that. You can buy them all separately for a total of like $30.
But I really dig having the stuff right there available to me on the console as well. Frankly the controls feel "right" using the Wii, where as they don't feel the same when using the PC. I'll probably just bite the bullet and buy a couple of classic controllers.
It's still funny how I spend most of my time using my "modern" consoles to play really old games.
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