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WII-KLY UPDATE: THREE NEW CLASSIC GAMES ADDED TO WII SHOP CHANNEL
Sept. 24, 2007
When you take on a challenge, it's helpful to know your goal. Are you trying to bury an opponent under colorful boulders, defeat the evil Syndicate's lifelike robots or rescue a princess? Maybe all three? Well, you can rest easy knowing that this week's diverse selection from the Wii Shop Channel is here to help you take care of all the above.
Three new classic games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the Wii Shop Channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week's new games are:
Kirby's Avalanche (Super NES®, 1-2 players, rated E for Everyone, 800 Wii Points): Everyone's favorite round, pink hero takes a break from swallowing his enemies to put your brain to work in this fast-paced puzzle game. Players take control of Kirby and match wits with well-known enemies from the Kirby series (including his archrival, King Dedede) in an effort to win the First Annual Dream Land Avalanche Competition. The simple-but-addictive game play revolves around brightly colored blobs and boulders. When the right amount of matching blobs are stacked, they explode and rain down on your opponent's field of play. Repeat this until your screen is clear to move on to the next round. But be carefulthe farther you advance, the faster the blobs fall and the smarter the opponents get. Are you good enough to help Kirby become the avalanche king?
Streets of Rage 3 (Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, rated E 10+ for Everyone 10 and Older - Violence, 800 Wii Points): Just when you thought the world was safe from the Syndicate and its shady leader, Mr. X, they have returned to torment the city once again. Mr. X has developed lifelike robots to take the place of various city officials so he can be in complete control. Now it's up to our old heroes Axel, Skate and Blaze to stop the threat with their amazing fighting skills. With more weapons and combat moves, as well as secret characters and various endings, this return to the streets is one you won't want to miss.
LEGEND OF HERO TONMA (TurboGrafx16, 1-2 players, rated E for Everyone - Mild Cartoon Violence, 600 Wii Points): LEGEND OF HERO TONMA is an action game that puts players in control of the magic-user Tonma, whose role - as was typical for game heroes of the day - is to travel to another world and save the princess. Fight your way through seven stages using Tonma's jump ability and shot power. Collect power-ups and barriers to grow in strength and pummel your enemies. Bring that strength to the end of each stage to face off against and defeat the menacing bosses that aim to keep you from the princess. This well-detailed game's comic visuals and feel will have players wanting to come back for more frantic and exciting action.
For more information about Wii, please visit wii.com.
Sept. 24, 2007
When you take on a challenge, it's helpful to know your goal. Are you trying to bury an opponent under colorful boulders, defeat the evil Syndicate's lifelike robots or rescue a princess? Maybe all three? Well, you can rest easy knowing that this week's diverse selection from the Wii Shop Channel is here to help you take care of all the above.
Three new classic games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the Wii Shop Channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week's new games are:
Kirby's Avalanche (Super NES®, 1-2 players, rated E for Everyone, 800 Wii Points): Everyone's favorite round, pink hero takes a break from swallowing his enemies to put your brain to work in this fast-paced puzzle game. Players take control of Kirby and match wits with well-known enemies from the Kirby series (including his archrival, King Dedede) in an effort to win the First Annual Dream Land Avalanche Competition. The simple-but-addictive game play revolves around brightly colored blobs and boulders. When the right amount of matching blobs are stacked, they explode and rain down on your opponent's field of play. Repeat this until your screen is clear to move on to the next round. But be carefulthe farther you advance, the faster the blobs fall and the smarter the opponents get. Are you good enough to help Kirby become the avalanche king?
Streets of Rage 3 (Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, rated E 10+ for Everyone 10 and Older - Violence, 800 Wii Points): Just when you thought the world was safe from the Syndicate and its shady leader, Mr. X, they have returned to torment the city once again. Mr. X has developed lifelike robots to take the place of various city officials so he can be in complete control. Now it's up to our old heroes Axel, Skate and Blaze to stop the threat with their amazing fighting skills. With more weapons and combat moves, as well as secret characters and various endings, this return to the streets is one you won't want to miss.
LEGEND OF HERO TONMA (TurboGrafx16, 1-2 players, rated E for Everyone - Mild Cartoon Violence, 600 Wii Points): LEGEND OF HERO TONMA is an action game that puts players in control of the magic-user Tonma, whose role - as was typical for game heroes of the day - is to travel to another world and save the princess. Fight your way through seven stages using Tonma's jump ability and shot power. Collect power-ups and barriers to grow in strength and pummel your enemies. Bring that strength to the end of each stage to face off against and defeat the menacing bosses that aim to keep you from the princess. This well-detailed game's comic visuals and feel will have players wanting to come back for more frantic and exciting action.
For more information about Wii, please visit wii.com.
Streets of Rage 3 
£4 for a legal version of a game that cannot be bought for less than £32 though rarity. Thank. you. Nintendo and Sega.
I wanted this game so bad but it was impossible to find. I've been keeping an eye on eBay for years. Now I just gotta wait for the EU release!
£4 for a legal version of a game that cannot be bought for less than £32 though rarity. Thank. you. Nintendo and Sega.I wanted this game so bad but it was impossible to find. I've been keeping an eye on eBay for years. Now I just gotta wait for the EU release!
Have I mentioned that I'm still waiting for Buck Rogers on Genesis...
Come on guys, do something!
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Come on guys, do something!
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Downloading tonight....
Wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if it's never released in Europe?
Have I mentioned that I'm still waiting for Buck Rogers on Genesis...
Come on guys, do something!
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Not going to happen. Sorry....
Because you have no authority in the matter, I'll just wander over to some other bureaucrat and get the run around
I got my Ghouls 'n Ghosts, WonderBoys, R-Type, Street Fighter 2s, etc., so I'm confident I'll also get one of my favorite console RPGs.
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I got my Ghouls 'n Ghosts, WonderBoys, R-Type, Street Fighter 2s, etc., so I'm confident I'll also get one of my favorite console RPGs.
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Jimmi any news on those star points to wii points yet ?
Getting sick of registering new games just for their points to be sat there doing nothing.
Getting sick of registering new games just for their points to be sat there doing nothing.
This weeks EU releases:
Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth - Nintendo 64 - 1200 Wii Points
Gradius III - SNES - 900 Wii Points
Legend of Hero Tonma - Turbografx - 600 Wii Points
Typical! Sin & Punishment is finally released (for a limited time) and I've banned myself from spending any of my money on anything 'unnecessary'.
...
On a side note, check out a selection of the Japanese releases for the next month (October) that will hopefully be released elsewhere soon:
Cybernator - SNES
Ys Book I & II - Turbografx
Art of Fighting - NEO GEO
Samurai Shodown - NEO GEO
Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth - Nintendo 64 - 1200 Wii Points
Gradius III - SNES - 900 Wii Points
Legend of Hero Tonma - Turbografx - 600 Wii Points
Typical! Sin & Punishment is finally released (for a limited time) and I've banned myself from spending any of my money on anything 'unnecessary'.
...
On a side note, check out a selection of the Japanese releases for the next month (October) that will hopefully be released elsewhere soon:
Cybernator - SNES
Ys Book I & II - Turbografx
Art of Fighting - NEO GEO
Samurai Shodown - NEO GEO
WII-KLY UPDATE: TWO NEW CLASSIC GAMES ADDED TO WII SHOP CHANNEL
Oct. 1, 2007
This is a special week on the Wii Shop Channel. Frankly, it's a gamer's dream come true: Nintendo is launching the new Import genre with the release of two games that previously have never been available in the Western Hemisphere on their original platforms. The first will be hugely popular with Mario fans, who will love reliving the style of his classic games as they encounter new skills, new levels and new dangers. Nintendo® 64 enthusiasts also get a masterpiece of the shooter genre and perhaps the best game never released outside of Japan. Welcome to Import Week for the Wii Shop Channel!
The two new classic games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the Wii Shop Channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week's new games are:
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (NES®, 1 player, rated E for Everyone, 600 Wii Points): Originally released in Japan as Super Mario Bros.® 2, this game has previously made only brief cameo appearances in the Western Hemisphere. Now available on the Virtual Console in all of its original splendor, Mario fans will appreciate the familiar look and feel of the game, while finding that its updated game play creates an entirely new challenge. No longer content just to wear different-colored overalls, Mario and Luigi also possess different skill sets: Mario can stop quicker, while Luigi can jump higher. In addition to the classic enemies already known to fans worldwide, there are also Poison Mushrooms, backward Warp Zones, and the occasional wind gust (which can help or hinder your progress) to take into account. And if that's somehow not enough, expert players can go looking for the game's secret worlds. So get ready to put your Mario skills to the ultimate test, and save the Princess again. Just don't be surprised if she's in another castle.
Sin & Punishment (Nintendo 64, 1-2 players, rated T for Teen Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, 1,200 Wii Points): Created by the legendary development studio Treasure, this is a game that hard-core gamers and fans of Japanese imports recognize as one of the finest Nintendo 64 titles to have never previously reached North American shores. Its unique combination of English voice-overs with Japanese subtitles (preserved in this version) has only added to the enthusiasm for its eventual release here. Experience the frenetic pace of a classic shooter, while choosing from a variety of options and a number of different skill levels until you are ready to take on the full-blown challenge of Turbo Hard mode. Not to be outdone by the action, however, the intriguing story line gives the game its soul and draws you even further into the mix. Set in the near future, on an overpopulated Earth starved for resources, players uncover the intriguing mystery of two teenagers (Saki and Airan) and their battle against the Ruffians as they advance through level after level of nonstop action. Take a deep breath, gather your energy and prepare to see why this game is so highly praised.
Oct. 1, 2007
This is a special week on the Wii Shop Channel. Frankly, it's a gamer's dream come true: Nintendo is launching the new Import genre with the release of two games that previously have never been available in the Western Hemisphere on their original platforms. The first will be hugely popular with Mario fans, who will love reliving the style of his classic games as they encounter new skills, new levels and new dangers. Nintendo® 64 enthusiasts also get a masterpiece of the shooter genre and perhaps the best game never released outside of Japan. Welcome to Import Week for the Wii Shop Channel!
The two new classic games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the Wii Shop Channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week's new games are:
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (NES®, 1 player, rated E for Everyone, 600 Wii Points): Originally released in Japan as Super Mario Bros.® 2, this game has previously made only brief cameo appearances in the Western Hemisphere. Now available on the Virtual Console in all of its original splendor, Mario fans will appreciate the familiar look and feel of the game, while finding that its updated game play creates an entirely new challenge. No longer content just to wear different-colored overalls, Mario and Luigi also possess different skill sets: Mario can stop quicker, while Luigi can jump higher. In addition to the classic enemies already known to fans worldwide, there are also Poison Mushrooms, backward Warp Zones, and the occasional wind gust (which can help or hinder your progress) to take into account. And if that's somehow not enough, expert players can go looking for the game's secret worlds. So get ready to put your Mario skills to the ultimate test, and save the Princess again. Just don't be surprised if she's in another castle.
Sin & Punishment (Nintendo 64, 1-2 players, rated T for Teen Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, 1,200 Wii Points): Created by the legendary development studio Treasure, this is a game that hard-core gamers and fans of Japanese imports recognize as one of the finest Nintendo 64 titles to have never previously reached North American shores. Its unique combination of English voice-overs with Japanese subtitles (preserved in this version) has only added to the enthusiasm for its eventual release here. Experience the frenetic pace of a classic shooter, while choosing from a variety of options and a number of different skill levels until you are ready to take on the full-blown challenge of Turbo Hard mode. Not to be outdone by the action, however, the intriguing story line gives the game its soul and draws you even further into the mix. Set in the near future, on an overpopulated Earth starved for resources, players uncover the intriguing mystery of two teenagers (Saki and Airan) and their battle against the Ruffians as they advance through level after level of nonstop action. Take a deep breath, gather your energy and prepare to see why this game is so highly praised.
Huzzah! Sin & Punishment!
As for The Lost Levels, is this version any different from The Super Mario All-Stars version?
As for The Lost Levels, is this version any different from The Super Mario All-Stars version?
This version probably lacks the updated graphics of the All-Stars version and most likely also loses the save feature that All-Stars had. However Virtual Console Suspend is vastly superior to Save (provided that the Wii Power is not cut in the middle of your game).
HOLY RUDDY yes
We have Super Metroid. Only I gotta get my game ready for the student IGF contest so I won't be able to get it just yet
ps. What a golden week in gaming! Orange Box, Sonic and online co-op in Brawl, Super Metroid on the VC... ahh. Good ol' gaming.
We have Super Metroid. Only I gotta get my game ready for the student IGF contest so I won't be able to get it just yet
ps. What a golden week in gaming! Orange Box, Sonic and online co-op in Brawl, Super Metroid on the VC... ahh. Good ol' gaming.
So much goodness right now.
To ramble about Orange Box a bit:
I'm hopefull for a Wii port next year, so I'm not going to pick it up for my PC just yet. I still have my old co... CDs.... ¬¬.
I read an interview with Gabe Newell and here's what he says about the Wii after being asked about outscoring projects or bringing them in house;
"Newell: I think we’ll bring them in house more for licensees issues than our own. Just for our own priorities, that puts the Wii at a much higher priority at understanding that. I think the Wii represents more of a challenge because of its input. You can think of the Xbox 360 as pretty much a PC and a PlayStation as kind of a PC. The Wii gives you a bunch of problems that don’t fit into that model. You can’t think of it as graphics, CPU, texture bandwith scaling, you have to think of it as more fundamentally, and I think it’s more valuable. I think it’s more interesting than just graphics chip – CPU combination. It’s the machine I have at home. The fact that we don’t have anything in development on it even though it represents big opportunities as a whole, it’s an obvious hole in our strategy."
I love Metroid's controls on the Wii -- they're outstanding, so if they can bring that goodness to a Wii Orange Box port, I would be all over it. Graphically the Wii can definitely handle HL2, especially when you consider the fact that it was made during the 9xxxx generation of GPUs, which aren't as feature rich as the Wii's newer GPU. And I'm tired of techTards that don't know jack beyond their own FUD, stating a Wii can't handle physics. What is this 1990 or something...
Blah!
WHERE'S BUCK ROGERS DOOMSDAY!!!
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To ramble about Orange Box a bit:
I'm hopefull for a Wii port next year, so I'm not going to pick it up for my PC just yet. I still have my old co... CDs.... ¬¬.
I read an interview with Gabe Newell and here's what he says about the Wii after being asked about outscoring projects or bringing them in house;
"Newell: I think we’ll bring them in house more for licensees issues than our own. Just for our own priorities, that puts the Wii at a much higher priority at understanding that. I think the Wii represents more of a challenge because of its input. You can think of the Xbox 360 as pretty much a PC and a PlayStation as kind of a PC. The Wii gives you a bunch of problems that don’t fit into that model. You can’t think of it as graphics, CPU, texture bandwith scaling, you have to think of it as more fundamentally, and I think it’s more valuable. I think it’s more interesting than just graphics chip – CPU combination. It’s the machine I have at home. The fact that we don’t have anything in development on it even though it represents big opportunities as a whole, it’s an obvious hole in our strategy."
I love Metroid's controls on the Wii -- they're outstanding, so if they can bring that goodness to a Wii Orange Box port, I would be all over it. Graphically the Wii can definitely handle HL2, especially when you consider the fact that it was made during the 9xxxx generation of GPUs, which aren't as feature rich as the Wii's newer GPU. And I'm tired of techTards that don't know jack beyond their own FUD, stating a Wii can't handle physics. What is this 1990 or something...
Blah!
WHERE'S BUCK ROGERS DOOMSDAY!!!
<]=)
I was going to scoff because HL2 is supposed to have very high system reqs, but then I remembered that Half-Life 2 was indeed released on the XBox.
If the XBox can handle it, Wii definitely can.
I bought Zelda OOT. Can't wait I haven't played that game in years. I would download Donkey Kong but I have played it quite frequently on SNES. Thinking about mario 64 (forget its name?) looks like fun. Used to have that game too on N64
I haven't played that game in years. I would download Donkey Kong but I have played it quite frequently on SNES. Thinking about mario 64 (forget its name?) looks like fun. Used to have that game too on N64
I played it quite a bit when it was first released and there are a few here that consider it their favorite from what I recall. Mario Kart DS is my favorite. If you've played it, some of its courses are from the n64 version.
Ghouls 'n Ghosts "Genesis" is a great game!
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Ghouls 'n Ghosts "Genesis" is a great game!
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i just got a wii, and i've been going a little crazy on virtual console. i bought ocarina of time, ninja gaiden, punch-out!, gunstar heroes, gradius iii and super metroid. i was just about to get a link to the past, but i think i won't, since i've got it for gba.
it's good multiplayer fun. but if you really want mario kart, i say you should wait for mario kart wii, or get mario kart ds (if you have a ds).
it's good multiplayer fun. but if you really want mario kart, i say you should wait for mario kart wii, or get mario kart ds (if you have a ds).
I'll have none of your scoffing!
I recall that and the Xbox's Geforce 3 doesn't hold a candle to to any of the 9xxx ATI's HL2 was optimized around. The only thing it had going for it, is that it's a dedicated gaming system. The Wii's GPU is superior on every front when compared to the XB's antique, it's only limited by Nintendo's firmware and ignorant -- often retarded -- developers to state the obvious.
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