First mentioned earlier this year, gifting allows Wii Shopping Channel devotees to buy Virtual Console games for those they've swapped Friend Codes with. If the recipient already owns the title, the system notifies gift-givers and suggests they pick out another game instead.

In the realm of games, Pokemon Snap, Ghosts'n Goblins, and Baseball Stars 2 are today's additions to the online Virtual Console offerings.

HAL Laboratory's Pokemon Snap, originally for Nintendo 64, is essentially a kid-friendly shooter that replaces guns with cameras. In it, wannabe nature photographers sneak through the Pokemon-infested wild and attempt to take the best pictures of the little monsters in their natural habitat.

Selling for 1,000 Wii Points ($10), Pokemon Snap marks the first game to receive new functionality in its Virtual Console re-release. It adds the ability for players to export their pictures to the central Wii Message Board and send them to other Wii owners.

When Pokemon Snap was first released, players could take the Nintendo 64 cartridge to a special kiosk and print off their in-game photographs. The photo-sharing feature is likely an extension of that functionality.

Along with Snap, the online storefront gains Capcom's classic NES side-scroller Ghosts'n Goblins, at 500 Wii Points ($5), and SNK's Baseball Stars 2 for Neo Geo, which sells for 900 Wii Points ($9). All three games are slated to hit the online marketplace at 12 PM EST/9AM PST, with the gift-giving feature said to arrive later in the day.