Blazing Lazers on WiiU VC

[KingDrool]

Crazy that they're still putting these out.

Virtual Console on Wii U

- Blazing Lazers – Players control the extraordinary firepower of their Gunhed Star Fighter in this classic TurboGrafx-16 shooter. Collect power-ups to increase your ship’s battle strength so it can cut through enemies and defeat the bosses in all nine action-filled areas. Of course, as part of the “Soldier” series, the game contains a good combination of fast-paced speed with catchy, drum-propelled background music.

[Winniez]

Some of these TG16/PCE shooters would be kind of fun on the 3DS virtual console for practice. As you said the timing and also the choice of titles (in general) has been strange.
On the other hand releasing these mainly constitutes uploading a rom so its not a huge effort.