Two of Nintendo’s iconic heroes take centre stage on Wii’s Virtual Console this week. The much-loved SNES classic Super Mario World and is available for download from 800 Wii Points, while Link's second epic adventure on NES, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, ia available to download for 500 Wii Points.

Wii owners are also be able to download Vigilante, originally for TurboGrafx (PC Engine). These join 46 classic titles already available for the Virtual Console.

Since launch 1.5 million games have been downloaded worldwide from the service.