This information comes from Monster Games president Richard Garcia and Nintendo’s Hiro Yamada…

“In Vs. Excitebike, you could play local two-player mode with horizontal split-screen. (You must know your games really well given that the game was launched only in Japan as a Famicom Disk System game!)

We wanted to add local multiplayer to this game as well. But as you can see by playing the game, the player can jump so high that they leave the screen for a while. If we split the screen horizontally, the player can jump off the screen for an even longer time whenever they do a big jump. We couldn’t split the screen vertically, since it is important in this game to see down the track to plan your moves. Instead of being fun, split-screen was just stressful. We finally decided that it would be best if multiplayer gaming was restricted to Wi-Fi mode.”

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WiiWare

TV Show King 2 – 307 blocks
Pallurikio – 188 blocks
Eco Shooter: Plant 530 – 114 blocks
Happy Holidays Christmas – 60 blocks

VC

Super Smash Bros. – 123 blocks
Ninja Gaiden – 32 blocks

DSiWare

Dragon’s Lair – 127 blocks
Hot and Cold: A 3D Hidden Object Adventure – 127 blocks
UNO – 66 blocks
myNotebook: Green – 32 blocks
High Stakes: Texas Hold’Em – 24 blocks

Thanks to PlayStati0nNetwork for the news tip!

This is another part of Nintendo Power’s “250 reasons to love Nintendo” in their latest magazine. The list is in no particular order.

– Spread Gun (Contra series)
– Master Sword (The Legend of Zelda series)
– Bionic Arm (Bionic Commando)
– Mega Mushroom (New Super Mario Bros.)
– Metal Blade (Mega Man 2)
– Raccoon Suit (Super Mario Bros. 3)
– Options (Gradius series)
– Vampire Killer (Super Castlevania IV)
– Smash Ball (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
– Golden Gun (GoldenEye 007)
– Chainsaw (MadWorld)
– Ice Beam (Metroid series)
– Mario’s butt (Mario series)

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1 1 CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 INFINITY WARD ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
5 2 FIFA 10 EA CANADA EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
4 3 WII FIT PLUS NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
2 4 WII SPORTS RESORT NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
3 5 ASSASSIN’S CREED II UBISOFT (MONTREAL) UBISOFT UBISOFT
7 6 MARIO & SONIC AT OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES SEGA SEGA SEGA
6 7 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
9 8 FORZA MOTORSPORT 3 TURN 10 STUDIOS MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
10 9 MARIO KART WII NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
8 10 JUST DANCE UBISOFT (FRANCE) UBISOFT UBISOFT

“We cancelled a new sports game utilising Wii MotionPlus. Even through we have more ideas we can’t give too much away as they may still materialise one day.” – director Keita Eto

Wow, I’m quite surprised by this news. Skip has mainly been developing games in the Art Style series, of course. So I wouldn’t expect to hear that they were working on a MotionPlus sports game for Wii.

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