When the Wii first arrived on shelves in 2006, freely available for download was a web browser powered by the folks at Opera. After a short amount of time, though, the browser became a premium addon for $5.
Today, the Internet Channel returns to its previously free status. Anyone who bought it will receive a free NES game from the Virtual Console from now until October.




I sold my brother-in-law my Wii a while back. I’m not sure if I bought the browser when I had the Wii… If I did, hey, he’ll get a free VC game. I’m sure he’ll be happy to hear that.
Sweet! I’ll go get that now then.
Darn. I read it wrong. Ok, I’ll find some use for it.