G' Morning fellow racketeers,
i was browsing the Wii VC on my Wii U earlier this morning in an effort to buy Paper Mario, and to my surprise, it cost me zero dollars/Wii points what-so-ever. I then decided to poke around to see what else was up for grabs free, and low and behold, so was Mario 64, Super Mario RPG, Castlevania, and a few others. I'm not sure why, since i didn't find any information online, but, if anyone is wanting to score these classics legitimately, give it a try. Let me know if you had the same luck I had.
P.S. IIRC, in the browser in Wii VC, any titles that were free had a blue background along with the words "downloadable"