Looking for some games to waste your Wii Points on that you might play for an hour and then never click on again? Well, this week just might be for you! Hit the jump to find out what was added to Nintendo’s online catalog.
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Despite all the excitement for E3, Nintendo’s online store won’t miss a beat. This week we’re given 3 new games to waste money on! Hit the jump to find out what they are!
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It’s that time again, kids! Nintendo’s added 2 more games to their digital store. I’ll just get right into it, shall I?
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Another Monday means that Nintendo’s added new games to their online store. This week America gets a grand total of 3 new games to wreak havoc on your Wii’s internal memory. What will YOU be spending your hard-earned Wii Points on? Find out after the jump!
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It’s that time again! We have three new titles added to Nintendo’s download service, and if you aren’t too busy playing Metal Gear Solid 4 (like I am) they might actually be worth checking out. Hit the jump to see what’s new!
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When I had first heard that Japan was going to be getting Super Mario RPG sometime in the next month or so, I was, to say the least, hopeful. I’ve heard so many good things about it and still have yet to lay my pale, little hands on it. Alas, instead this week we were endowed with but a single Virtual Console title and a pair of WiiWare titles; none of which had the name “Mario” anywhere in their names. Hit the jump to find out what we got instead!
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It’s Monday again, and this time it’s a good day to be a patron of Nintendo’s download services. A whopping 4 new games have been added for this week for your downloading pleasure! Hit the jump to take a look at what’s available.
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It’s about damn time, too. Personally, I’m looking forward to LostWinds and FFCC: My Life as a King. For your convenience, I’ve thrown in YouTube links if any existed at the time of this posting. Hopefully gameplay videos will be up some time later today though.

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Wow, we actually have a half-decent release for once. First on the list is Phantasy Star III for the Genesis, which I’ve heard is actually something of a let-down. According to the criticism section on Wikipedia, it’s supposed to be the red-headed stepchild of the 4 main Phantasy Star games. At 800 Wii Points, I’m sure there’s something out there that will satisfy your RPG needs better than this (like, y’know, the other Phantasy Star game that’s on VC). Luckily, the sublime River City Ransom, originally for the NES, manages to even things out nicely. For those of you that haven’t played it (and shame on you if you haven’t!) River City Ransom is a side scrolling beat-’em-up in the same vein as Streets of Rage or most of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. It’s only 500 Points, so I’d highly recommend downloading this one, especially if you and a friend have an afternoon with nothing to do.Remember, these titles won’t be available for download until 9AM Pacific time tomorrow!

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Cruis’n USA (Nintendo 64, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 1,000 Wii Points) is literally the greatest racing game ever made. I have absolutely no idea how this game became one of my favorite racers of all time since it really isn’t that great, but it is. Maybe it’s because I only owned an N64 so the variety wasn’t that great to begin with, and I played this game non-stop over and over. Now that it is out on the VC will I be downloading it? No. I think the fond memories I have of the game need to stay that way as I’m 100 percent positive that playing it now would only ruin them. Alas, time is a harsh mistress and I do not think that Cruis’n USA has aged well at all. Oh, for the days when race tracks weren’t made of real city streets and national monuments and landmarks were all closely grouped together on fictional race courses.

*wipes a single tear from eye while looking wistfully out the window*

Sigh. Well the other game is Wonder Boy (Sega Master System, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone—Comic Mischief, 500 Wii Points) which is just Adventure Island on the Master System. Legal stuff happened. Same game made twice. What’s the point. I’m too depressed to go on.

Download these games at 9 a.m. Pacific time. More after the jump if you can bring yourself to read.

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Bleck, bleck and triple bleck. You would think the day after Easter would be the perfect time for Nintendo to celebrate the second coming of a great game. You know, bring back some hard to get game from death and let it rise from the ground to walk the earth once more, much like the Christ purportedly did way back when. But instead of raising Christ, who for the sake of this metaphor is representing Mother 3, the lord (Nintendo) seems to have accidentally raised the two thieves crucified along with JC: KING’S KNIGHT (NES, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone - Mild Fantasy Violence, 500 Wii Points) and POWERBALL (Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone - Mild Fantasy Violence, 800 Wii Points). I think that metaphor worked out pretty well.

King’s Knight is a landmark game in that it was Square’s first release in the U.S., but the game is more of a sign of the greatness to come than greatness itself. It’s a shooter (yes, another shooter) with RPG elements and leveling up but it never really jumps out at you in any way. Powerball on the other hand jumps out by being a totally made up sport about the power of balls. Never played this one but from the youtube videos it isn’t looking like a must buy either. Pretty damn uninteresting week if you ask me.

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all! Evidently Nintendo doesn’t celebrate the holiday as none of the games released on the VC today endorse drinking till you vomit and then rallying and drinking again. But never here I’m here to help. I am 100 percent positive that we can get two really good drinking games out of Spelunker (NES�, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points) and SUPER R-TYPE (Super NES�, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone � Mild Fantasy Violence, 800 Wii Points).

So let’s see. If you want to get totally trashed you can drink whenever you’re in a cave while playing Spelunker, since you’re always exploring caves though this might require a 40 strapped to one hand and some pretty amazing single handed game playing. Maybe we can scale it back a bit, especially since Super R-Type is a great shooter and you’ll probably want to appreciate it a bit. A shot after each amazing boss might work, though not sure how far you’ll get playing that way. But beating the game isn’t the point, getting plastered is. So download, drink and be merry.

Drinking games go live at 9 p.m. Pacific time. Hit the jump for the press release. Do you think someone at Nintendo was a bit drink already? Look at all those random question marks.

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Sorry this is a bit late but the only thing I’m really concerned about on my Wii is Brawl, so VC games seem kind of inconsequential. I’m even finding it hard to drag myself away from the TV to work, let alone type this at all. There are trophies to be collected and I’m here telling you about DoReMi Fantasy: Milon’s DokiDoki Adventure (Super NES®, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone – Alcohol Reference and Comic Mischief, 900 Wii Points) and Puyo Puyo 2: Tsuu (Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 900 Wii Points)! What’s the point, man? One is an adventure game; the other is a puzzle game. I’m sure they have some interesting history. I suppose if I had to come up with something clever I’d point to the fact that both these games have titles that repeat a word. You know they’ll be live at 9 a.m. Pacific Time so I don’t see why I have to tell you that either.

Happy? Good, I’m going to go back to work so I can play Brawl sooner. Ugggg, fine. Press release after the jump.

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Well Nintendo didn’t want to take too much fanfare away from our site redesign so this week they’re only delivering unto us one game, Super Turrican (Super NES®, 1 player, Rated E 10+ for Everyone 10 and Older – Fantasy Violence, 800 Wii Points). Just when we’ve started to accept two games a week as the norm Nintendo goes ahead and drops down to one game once again. Of course it doesn’t really matter since Brawl is coming out at the end of the week and that’s all anyone is going to be playing anyway. If you need a game to tide you over till then you could do far worse then Super Turrican. I vaguely remember it being pretty fun and having a good variety of weapons and levels. Take this with a grain of salt though as my childhood memories of the Bill and Ted game on the NES were also fond and we all know that they shouldn’t be. But the enemy’s name is “the Machine” so it can’t be all bad. Now if only one of the weapons was called “the Rage,” then once you got to the boss you could use Rage against the Machine…I’m so sorry for that. Hit the jump for the full release.

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Well not-Nintendo we had a good run but I guess the real Nintendo found you hiding in their closet releasing the good games they’ve been keeping locked up and decided to punish us all for your daring by giving us Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards: (Nintendo 64, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone, 1,000 Wii Points) and Psychosis: (TurboGrafx16, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone – Mild Fantasy Violence, 600 Wii Points). I still believe Nintendo hits us becase they love. It’s for our own good. Really, I just tripped and hit my head.

All innapropraite abuse jokes aside, I can’t really say I’m excited about either of these games nor do I feel the urge to download them considering last week’s releases could just be played over and over again. Bringing the old pink, power sucking ball that is Kirby into 3D was a pretty failed experiement. Then we have yet another TurboGrafx-16 sidescrolling shooter with Psychosis. If that is all we’re going to be getting from the TurboGrafx library from now on then I’ll be looking forward to the Commodore 64 games coming.

Since we’re back with normal Nintendo the games are coming out at the same time as always, 9 a.m. Pacific time. Click that button below for some press release.

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