Nintendo Download: Download New BIT.TRIP Kicks, Speeding Karts, Magic Castles and More
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Among the latest downloadable games from Nintendo is BIT.TRIP VOID, a riveting new installment in the extraordinary retro-arcade series for the WiiWare™ service. You’ll also find some remarkable kid-friendly fare on WiiWare this week, including the immersive Harvest Moon®: My Little Shop. Race-loving Mario™ fans will thrill to see the original Super Mario Kart™ make its Virtual Console™ debut alongside the imaginative A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia. The Nintendo DSiWare™ service welcomes Castle Of Magic – featuring some inventive uses for the Nintendo DSi™ system’s built-in cameras – as well as five delightful additions to the Electroplankton™ series. No doubt, the variety and value found on the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop are enough to keep holiday consumers energized through Black Friday and beyond.
An interview with the Frobot developers
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Over the past week or so, Valay and I have had the pleasure of getting some of our questions answered by the guys over at Fugazo regarding their upcoming WiiWare title, Frobot. For those that aren’t familiar with the game, Frobot can be summed up best by reading a snippet from the press release issued by Fugazo a few months back; Imagine if Wii Tanks and The Legend of Zelda had a baby. That baby’s name would be Frobot. Taking inspiration from two fantastic titles and throwing them together with a spike of funk? Sounds like a great plan to me! Check out the full interview after the break!
ESRB updates
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Battle of Giants Mutant Insects (DS) – E10+
Don’t Feed The Animals (DS) – E
Flipper (DSi) – E
Puzzler World (DS) – E
The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces (Wii) – T
Aha! I Found it! Hidden Object Game (Wii) – E
WarMen Tactics (Wii) – E10+
Art of Balance (Wii) – E
Easy Piano (DS) – E
Dementium II (DS) – M
Sudoku Sensei (DSi) – E
Game Informer’s top 200 games of all time
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In honor of Game Informer’s 200th issue, the magazine compiled a list of the top 200 games of all time. The titles are across all platforms and come from many different generations of gaming. We’ve posted the full list below.
1. The Legend of Zelda (NES, 1987)
2. Super Mario Bros. (NES, 1985)
3. Tetris (PC, 1984)
4. Grand Theft Auto III (PS2, 2001)
5. Half-Life 2 (PC, 2004)
6. Doom (PC, 1993)
7. Metroid (NES, 1986)
8. Final Fantasy III (SNES, 1994)
9. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES, 1990)
10. Ms. Pac-Man (Coin-op, 1981)
Japan’s VC/WiiWare/DSiWare releases next week
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VC:
-Romancing Saga (SNES, Square-Enix, 800pts)
-Iron Clad (NEOCD, D4 Enterprise, 900pts)
-Space Manbow (MSX, Konami, 800pts)
-Road Fighter (MSX, Konami, 800pts)
-Penguin Adventure (MSX, Konami, 800pts)
-Galaga (ARC, Namco-Bandai, 800pts)
-Toy Pop (ARC, Namco-Bandai, 800pts)
WiiWare:
-Shindori Action! Taikoukenchi -karakuri Shiro Nazo / Shindori Action! Taikoukenchi -Karakuri Castle Mystery (Perpetuum Game, 800pts)
-Rock and Roll Climber (Nintendo, 800pts)
-530 Eco Shooter (Nintendo, 1000pts)
-Kentoushi Furifuri Boxing / Prize Fighter Boxing (Takara Tomy, 1000pts)
(No sure of the use of furifuri in this context)
-Okiraku Kart (Arc System Works, 500pts)
DSiWare:
-Katanuki (G-mode, 200pts)
-Neratte Supotto / Aiming Spot (Nintendo, 200pts)
-Uchuu wo Kareru Josei Shooting / Universe Jumping Girl Shooting (ITL, 500pts)
(Someone might have a better translation of kakeru, it means just about anything)
-Texas Hold ’em (Hudson, 500pts)
-Ponjyan (Takara Tomy, 500pts)
-Meikyoukokugo Rakubikijiten / Meikyoukokugo useful dictionary (Nintendo, 800pts)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – 9/10
LEGO Rock Band – 7/10
DJ Hero – 9/10
New Super Mario Bros. Wii – 8/10
Dragon Age: Origins – 8/10
Left for Dead 2 – 8/10
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles – 8/10
The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood – 9/10
EuFloria – 7/10
Demon’s Souls – 10/10
Rabbids Go Home – 7/10
Assassin’s Creed 2 – 9/10
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games – 7/10
Saw – 3/10
Lost Winds: Winter of the Melodias – 8/10
Lucidity – 7/10
Aonuma would have liked MotionPlus available for Twilight Princess
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Both Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma have stated countless times that the next Zelda game will incorporate Wii MotionPlus. Twilight Princess, however, simply utilized the capabilities of the Wii remote and nothing more. In an interview with GameSpot, Aonuma discussed the peripheral and said that he wishes MotionPlus was available a long time ago, perhaps so that the development team could have implemented the technology in Twilight Princess.
“All I can say right now is that, yes, we are well in the progress in development right now and as Mr. Miyamoto has already stated, we are going to use the Wii MotionPlus. It’s actually perfectly matched…I wish we could have gotten that a long time ago. Even when we look at Twilight Princess right now, we have to feel that we should have that kind of Wii MotionPlus. It was that natural feeling we have already established in development. So I hope that people are going to be looking forward to the launch.”
Super Mario Kart, Smash Bros., and Pilotwings coming to the VC before year’s end
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There are still a number of classic Nintendo titles that have yet to be released on the Virtual Console. On Monday, however, the situation will begin to change. According to GameSpot, Super Mario Kart – the well-known SNES racer – will be included in the VC titles up for download. It’ll cost 800 points. Meanwhile, Super Smash Bros. and Pilotwings will also be hitting the service sometime this year (right around the holidays), although Nintendo did not share pricing details.
Top DSiWare, WiiWare, VC titles of the week
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DSiWare
1 (1) – Flipnote Studio
2 (2) – Nintendo DSi Browser
3 (8) – Bomberman Blitz
4 (15) – Electroplankton Hanenbow
5 (3) – Crash-Course Domo
6 (N) – Arcade Bowling
7 (5) – Battle of Giants: Dragons – Bronze Edition
8 (6) – Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!
9 (4) – MySims Camera
10 (N/A) – Electroplankton Beatnes
11 (7) – Rock-n-Roll Domo
12 (N/A) – Electroplankton Nanocarp
13 (N/A) – Electroplankton Trapy
14 (12) – Guitar Rock Tour
15 (9) – Sudoku
16 (11) – Sparkle Snapshots
17 (16) – Paper Airplane Chase
18 (14) – Dragon Quest Wars
19 (10) – Pro-Putt Domo
20 (13) – viking Invasion
WiiWare
1 (N) – Pokemon Rumble Demo
2 (N) – World of Goo Demo
3 (N) – FFCC: My Life as a Darklord Demo
4 (N) – Bit.Trip Beat Demo
5 (N) – NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits Demo
6 (N) – Pokemon Rumble
7 (1) – Excitebike: World Rally
8 (2) – Frogger Returns
9 (4) – Carnival King
10 (3) – Reel Fishing Challenge
11 (5) – Tetris Party
12 (7) – World of Goo
13 (8) – My Aquarium
14 (9) – Dr. Mario Online Rx
15 (6) – LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias
16 (10) – Contra Rebirth
17 (11) – My Pokemon Ranch
18 (15) – “Aha! I Got It!” Escape Game
19 (13) – Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
20 (14) – Texas Hold’Em Poker
VC
1 (1) – Super Mario Bros. 3
2 (2) – Super Mario Bros.
3 (3) – Super Mario Bros. 2
4 (5) – The Legend of Zelda
5 (7) – Pac-Man
6 (4) – Final Fantasy
7 (8) – Super Mario World
8 (6) – Kirby’s Adventure
9 (9) – Punch-Out!!
10 (11) – Donkey Kong
11 (13) – Galaga
12 (12) – Super Mario 64
13 (14) – Excitebike
14 (10) – Zombies Ate My Neighbors
15 (17) – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
16 (15) – Zelda II – The Adventure of Link
17 (18) – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
18 (16) – Metroid
19 (19) – Castlevania
20 (20) – Mega Man 3