It totally sucks that there will probably be no Rare games for the VC.
We got DKC1 and DKC2, but Donkey Kong was Nintendo's property to begin with.
And it does suck because Rare's games were some of if not the best games available for Nintendo systems during the SNES and N64. Didn't mention NES because the only Rare game I recall for that was Snake Rattle N Roll. *checks rareware.com* Oh, actually, they did Marble Madness and R.C. Pro-Am and Battletoads for NES too, among a zillion other games. Didn't mention GameCube because not everyone liked Star Fox Adventures.
If Rare's titles aren't going to appear on the Wii Virtual Console, then they should be available on X-Box Live Arcade or whatever it is. Just make them available in some form. I'd say Rare's games were some of the best games of all time... at the time of SNES and N64.