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Topic Started: Nov 2 2009, 11:59 AM (8,010 Views)
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Super Bermuda
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Aug 30 2010, 01:17 PM
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- Aug 30 2010, 12:14 PM
So why do you think VC is dead?
I think it's because of Nintendo's dumb policies. The third-parties don't see any money until their game sells a certain amount. That may be part of it, but then why doesn't Nintendo release more first party games? There are still a few they need to release. I think it may have to do with games like Ocarina of Time for 3DS. It may make them more money selling a remake for $30 than it is to sell a port for $10. And if they'll be releasing both VC games and retail versions, they may cut into each other's sales. So maybe they had to choose between one or the other.
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Hyper Metal Sonic
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Aug 30 2010, 03:20 PM
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I think it could also be due in part of Nintendo wanting to focus more on Wiiware and spending more time and money on that rather than evenly dividing up the load.
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Super Bermuda
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Sep 28 2010, 10:01 AM
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ZENONIA Publisher: GAMEVIL USA, Inc. Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Mild Fantasy Violence Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points™ Description: Classic RPG action returns with ZENONIA. Get ready for the endless journey of Regret, who is on a mission to find the reason for the death of his father at the hands of a demon. He begins his quest by choosing one of three classes: Paladin, Warrior or Assassin. Players can equip and customize using hundreds of different types of weapons and armor. There are tons of items to refine or combine from five different item classes: normal, magic, rare, unique and epic. There are even more astonishing features such as full skill trees which you can level up, along with stunning visuals and sound effects. ZENONIA offers extensive playtime with numerous main and side quests, plus good and evil storylines to choose from. Anime-style graphics and innovative real-life systems such as a day/night cycle and hunger/weight system make ZENONIA a unique gaming experience for everybody.
FIZZ Publisher: DK-GAMES Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Welcome to FIZZ, the explosive puzzle game. In FIZZ, you earn points by creating rings of energy. To do that, you must align identical colors and create links between the different nodes. The bigger your rings, the more points you earn. There will be outside events that get in your way, such as asteroids, meteorite showers and aliens who'll try to break your nodes. Magnetic storms and pulsars will change colors, and magnetic spheres will prevent you from using the nodes in the surrounding area. Exceedingly simple to understand but challenging to master, FIZZ is an inventive puzzle challenge that will have gamers on the edge of their seats.
WiiWare
Target Toss Pro: Lawn Darts Publisher: Incredible Technologies Players: 1-16 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 700 Wii Points™ Description: Target Toss Pro: Lawn Darts is a new video game based on one of the nation's most infamous backyard games. There are four types of flying-dart action to choose from: Classic Lawn Darts, 501, Cricket and Poker Darts. Each game has a unique scoring method and strategy to keep players entertained for hours. Classic Lawn Darts involves throwing three darts at two circles with an escalating Red Dot Bonus bull's-eye in the center. 501 is similar to the classic pub darts game of the same name; throw three darts at a dartboard during eight rounds of play until all 501 points - and not one point more - are cleared. Cricket is another classic pub darts game of three tosses per round, challenging players to close out the bull's eye and the numbers 15 through 20 before their opponent. Poker Darts involves launching five darts at a deck of 52 playing cards while attempting to get the best poker hand and highest scores over three hands.
Astro Bugz Revenge Publisher: Sudden Games Players: 1-2 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Mild Fantasy Violence Price: 700 Wii Points Description: Astro Bugz Revenge is an action-puzzle game with a retro vibe. Protect our solar system from astro bugz and blast them by matching three or more bugz. Pick up valuable power-ups and activate them to annihilate the incoming invaders. Flip to the other side in Revenge mode and play as the bugz. Test your skills against your friends by playing in Co-Op or Versus mode. This action-packed game will surely keep you challenged. This week I downloaded Zenonia. It's actually a pretty good game. I think it was originally an iPhone game, but now it's on DSi. I thought it was just an innocent RPG, but then I wandered into a crack house and found a mysterious drug dealer who operates only between 2 and 5 AM. You can play as three different classes, each with different abilities and such. You can also choose between being good and evil. That's always fun. It's pretty impressive for a DSiWare title, but there are times when the size restriction of these DSi games make Zenonia feel like it's being held back.
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Hyper Metal Sonic
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Sep 28 2010, 04:01 PM
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- Super Bermuda
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Spoiler: click to toggle Nintendo DSiWare
ZENONIA Publisher: GAMEVIL USA, Inc. Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Mild Fantasy Violence Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points™ Description: Classic RPG action returns with ZENONIA. Get ready for the endless journey of Regret, who is on a mission to find the reason for the death of his father at the hands of a demon. He begins his quest by choosing one of three classes: Paladin, Warrior or Assassin. Players can equip and customize using hundreds of different types of weapons and armor. There are tons of items to refine or combine from five different item classes: normal, magic, rare, unique and epic. There are even more astonishing features such as full skill trees which you can level up, along with stunning visuals and sound effects. ZENONIA offers extensive playtime with numerous main and side quests, plus good and evil storylines to choose from. Anime-style graphics and innovative real-life systems such as a day/night cycle and hunger/weight system make ZENONIA a unique gaming experience for everybody.
FIZZ Publisher: DK-GAMES Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Welcome to FIZZ, the explosive puzzle game. In FIZZ, you earn points by creating rings of energy. To do that, you must align identical colors and create links between the different nodes. The bigger your rings, the more points you earn. There will be outside events that get in your way, such as asteroids, meteorite showers and aliens who'll try to break your nodes. Magnetic storms and pulsars will change colors, and magnetic spheres will prevent you from using the nodes in the surrounding area. Exceedingly simple to understand but challenging to master, FIZZ is an inventive puzzle challenge that will have gamers on the edge of their seats.
WiiWare
Target Toss Pro: Lawn Darts Publisher: Incredible Technologies Players: 1-16 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 700 Wii Points™ Description: Target Toss Pro: Lawn Darts is a new video game based on one of the nation's most infamous backyard games. There are four types of flying-dart action to choose from: Classic Lawn Darts, 501, Cricket and Poker Darts. Each game has a unique scoring method and strategy to keep players entertained for hours. Classic Lawn Darts involves throwing three darts at two circles with an escalating Red Dot Bonus bull's-eye in the center. 501 is similar to the classic pub darts game of the same name; throw three darts at a dartboard during eight rounds of play until all 501 points - and not one point more - are cleared. Cricket is another classic pub darts game of three tosses per round, challenging players to close out the bull's eye and the numbers 15 through 20 before their opponent. Poker Darts involves launching five darts at a deck of 52 playing cards while attempting to get the best poker hand and highest scores over three hands.
Astro Bugz Revenge Publisher: Sudden Games Players: 1-2 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Mild Fantasy Violence Price: 700 Wii Points Description: Astro Bugz Revenge is an action-puzzle game with a retro vibe. Protect our solar system from astro bugz and blast them by matching three or more bugz. Pick up valuable power-ups and activate them to annihilate the incoming invaders. Flip to the other side in Revenge mode and play as the bugz. Test your skills against your friends by playing in Co-Op or Versus mode. This action-packed game will surely keep you challenged. This week I downloaded Zenonia. It's actually a pretty good game. I think it was originally an iPhone game, but now it's on DSi. I thought it was just an innocent RPG, but then I wandered into a crack house and found a mysterious drug dealer who operates only between 2 and 5 AM. You can play as three different classes, each with different abilities and such. You can also choose between being good and evil. That's always fun. It's pretty impressive for a DSiWare title, but there are times when the size restriction of these DSi games make Zenonia feel like it's being held back. Sounds cool, I'd like to check ZENONIA out soon.
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Oct 4 2010, 09:28 AM
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Shantae: Risky's Revenge Publisher: WayForward Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Comic Mischief, Mild Cartoon Violence, Suggestive Themes Price: 1,200 Nintendo DSi Points™ Description: The sequel to the critically acclaimed Shantae is here! Fans asked, and WayForward has answered with a powder keg of high-octane, hair-whipping, hip-shaking action available only on the Nintendo DSiWare service. Shantae: Risky's Revenge sets the bar even higher with thousands of frames of animation, huge multi-sprite bosses and a quest so big it's bursting at the seams. Guide "half-genie" Shantae through haunted wastelands, burning deserts, enchanted forests, dripping caverns and deadly labyrinths. Discover magical attacks, brew zombie coffee, save golden babies and master the art of belly dancing to transform Shantae into more powerful creatures. Use your powers to foil the lady pirate Risky Boots and save Sequin Land from certain doom. With its infectious characters, flirtatious humor and deliciously outlandish action, Shantae: Risky's Revenge offers up all the hair-whipping, belly-dancing action you can handle.
Rummikub Publisher: Games Factory Online Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points Description: For more than 50 years, players have loved Rummikub for its combination of tactical thinking, luck and tense competition. In this new edition for the Nintendo DSiWare service, combine the tiles to create the smartest combinations and play with friends who have their own copy of Rummikub. You can also pit your wits against the computer in single-player mode at various difficulty settings. Collect all the medals Rummikub has to offer and become the world champion.
WiiWare
Racers' Islands – Crazy Racers Publisher: ZALLAG Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Cartoon Violence Price: 1,000 Wii Points™ Description: Six drivers are competing on a popular TV show: an English lord, a dangerous beauty from Russia, a Mexican desperado, an eccentric Frenchman, a Japanese prodigy and an American bulldozer. Whichever driver you choose, you'll have to drive and shoot simultaneously to be the first to cross the finish line. The game includes 20 different races and six thematic islands styled to look like a big amusement park. Unique game play lets you drive with one hand while aiming with the other. Discover tons of content like new items, trophies and time trials.
Learning with the PooYoos: Episode 3 Publisher: Lexis Numérique Players: 1 ESRB Rating: EC (Early Childhood) Price: 500 Wii Points Description: Welcome to the world of the PooYoos, the first fun poetic brain-trainer for children ages 3 to 6. With the PooYoos, a merry band of adorable baby animals, children will have fun while learning basic development concepts such as numbers, letters, lateralization, shapes and colors. Children get to dance with their new friends and earn lovely interactive rewards. With two levels of interactivity, children can play activities based on plants and music. This game has been designed for use by children who have not yet grasped reading. The instructions are spoken in French, English or Spanish, depending on the language setting of your Wii™ console.
Virtual Console
FATAL FURY 3: ROAD TO THE FINAL VICTORY Original platform: NEOGEO Publisher: D4 Enterprise Players: 1-2 ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Violence Price: 900 Wii Points Description: Originally released in 1995, this is the fourth title in the Fatal Fury series of beat-'em-up games. Previous releases in the series used a two-plane battle system allowing you to move and fight between the foreground and background. This game features a three-plane format – foreground, background and main plane – known as the Oversway System. Characters will automatically move back to the main line after a certain period of time in the foreground or background planes. Other new features include Combination Arts (the ability to execute combo attacks with simple rhythmic button taps), Hidden Abilities (superior versions of the popular Special Moves and Super Special Moves from previous installments) and minor tweaks to all of the characters' Special Moves. As a result, this installment offers the deepest strategies and tactics in the Fatal Fury series to date. Shantae is this week's big release, and that makes this week a success in my eyes. But throwing in a VC game is always nice. Bonus points, despite the fact I probably won't purchase the game.
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Super Bermuda
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Oct 11 2010, 08:29 AM
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Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode I Publisher: SEGA Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Comic Mischief Price: 1,500 Wii Points™ Description: The sequel fans have waited 16 years to experience is finally here! Featuring enhanced game-play elements such as the classic Sonic Spin Dash and the versatile Homing Attack, Sonic 4 picks up right where Sonic and Knuckles™ left off. With Eggman finally defeated, Sonic runs off to explore new zones and uncharted lands. Dr. Eggman, furious at the destruction of the Death Egg and the failure of his plans, puts all of his most devious schemes into action. In an effort to finally rid himself of Sonic, he revisits - and improves - the very best of his creations. Get ready for the next chapter in an epic 2D saga built for old and new fans alike.
Triple Jumping Sports Publisher: The Code Monkeys Ltd. Players: 1-2 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Wii Points Description: Triple Jumping Sports is the most advanced recreational jumping game available for the WiiWare service, immersing players in the world of competitive jumping. Most events consist of activities that are traditionally derived from hunting and combat skills. Over time these practices have evolved into a variety of competitive sports that include Long Jump, High Jump and Pole Vault. As with real-life jumping events, players have full control over the speed, height, angle and distance. All of these will influence the success of the jump.
Nintendo DSiWare
Ivy the Kiwi? Mini Publisher: XSEED Games Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Comic Mischief Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points™ Description: Ivy is on a search for her mother and she needs your help! Help guide Ivy by stretching vines and protecting her from treacherous terrain and mean animals that stand in her way. She's a bird, but she can't fly, and she's going to need all the help she can get if she's going to find her mother. Will Ivy find her mother? More than 50 stages provide loads of fun for the whole family.
Datamine Publisher: Enjoy Gaming ltd. Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: You are the safety inspector at the largest data storage facility in the world. Unfortunately, your laziness at work has led to the biggest cataclysm of the wireless age: the loss of all mankind's data. You have been chosen to embark on a dangerous journey to retrieve the lost data. Datamine is a great arcade-style action game where you control a robot and beam at data bubbles to split and catch them. Test your skills in 100 challenging levels. Grab equipment upgrades like speed boost, sticky shots and shields. Break encrypted data and fusion bubbles that multiply when they touch others.
G.G. Series SUPER HERO OGRE Publisher: Genterprise, Inc. Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Cartoon Violence Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Charge up your Superhero Attacks and be a super-cool superhero. An evil army is on the march. Confront it and save the day in this superhero action game. Each time you defeat an enemy with a Hero Attack, your Hero Gauge goes up. Then, with simple button commands, you can use the charged-up Hero Gauge to unleash powerful Superhero Attacks on your foes. Continue to land Hero Attacks to keep the Hero Gauge charged and perform a devastating chain of Superhero Attacks. After you destroy the lesser enemies, a boss will appear. Defeat it to clear the level.
What with Shantae last week and Sonic this week, I expect next week to be terrible. Isn't that the pattern? When we get the occasional awesome line-up, a poor week is soon to follow?
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Hyper Metal Sonic
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Oct 11 2010, 02:10 PM
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I can't tell if that jumping game is being tongue-in-cheek.
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Hyper Metal Sonic
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Oct 14 2010, 06:40 PM
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For anyone that owns Cave Story Wiiware, it has recently been updated. The music and map have been fixed, and the extra modes have been locked until you meet certain requirements now(though chances are if you own the game by now you've probably already beaten it and this part won't affect you), and a few other changes.
Gonna have to update it in a little bit and check it out. I forget, anyone else here own CS?
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Super Bermuda
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Oct 14 2010, 06:48 PM
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I have CS, but it's been a while since I played it. It's not often we get updates like this, so thanks for the heads up.
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Hyper Metal Sonic
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Oct 14 2010, 07:22 PM
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No problem, I don't think we've had a substantial update such as this since Gradius Rebirth, and I'm not even sure if that update ever even went through. I just remember hearing an announcement.
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