Nintendoware Weekly: Sparkle Snapshots, Fighting Street, Carnival King & more

by JC Fletcher { Nov 2nd 2009 at 9:44AM }

Nintendo actually released a respectable number of downloadable games this week: 8 games across Virtual Console, WiiWare and DSiWare. You may have even heard of some of them!

As far as we can tell, the highlights of the week are a DSiWare photo decoration app and the embarrassing parent of the Street Fighter series. Hit the post break and find out if any of the many offerings are what you were looking to drain your Nintendo Points on.

WiiWare

Carnival King (Incredible Technologies, 1-2 players, 700 Wii Points): It's the arcade shooting gallery game you may remember from your local movie theater -- now on WiiWare!
"Aha! I Got It" Escape Game (Ateam, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Milo just received a room full of puzzles for his birthday, and you have to solve them for him in a series of motion-based activities.
Family Card Games (Aksys Games, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points): Arc System Works's "Family" series returns with a collection of three card games: Daifugo, Speed, and Memory.

Virtual Console

Fighting Street (Turbografx-16 CD-ROM, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points): If you've never played the first game in the legendary Street Fighter series, then you ... are in for a huge disappointment. But an interesting one!
R-TYPE (Sega Master System, 1 player, 500 Wii Points): This is only the second version of R-TYPE on the Virtual Console. The Turbografx-16 version hit on Christmas 2006. This new version includes an extra hidden level (and is cheaper) but isn't quite as arcade perfect.

DSiWare:

Battle of Giants: Dragons: Bronze Edition (Ubisoft, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points): Ubisoft brings its retail strategy/fighting game to DSiWare. It's a smaller Battle of Giants.
Sparkle Snapshots (Nintendo, 1 player, 500 DSi Points): We would have guessed that Nintendo would leave a DSiWare adaptation of the popular "Print Club" arcade photo booths in Japan, where people know what those are and use them. We would have been wrong! Now you can make your pictures so sparkly, and then share your cute ans sparkly pictures wirelessly!
Viking Invasion (BiP Media, 1 player, 800 DSi Points): You've played tower-defense games before, but have you ever had to defend a tower from Vikings?

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Torque_AOD @ Nov 2nd 2009 9:47AM

R-TYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so happy I think I'm gonnaHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Mr Khan @ Nov 2nd 2009 10:10AM

They keep repeating themselves with a lot of their recent VC releases, going with multiplat versions of games we already have, which is rather bothersome given the long list of games we still don't have at all yet.

il_duce620 @ Nov 2nd 2009 10:11AM

Still...why doesn't North America have Super Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros...it pains me more every Monday they aren't available...

Linka @ Nov 2nd 2009 11:14AM

It pains me even more that with every Monday that goes by, Cave Story STILL isn't out.

CrissCross87 @ Nov 2nd 2009 10:19AM

Fighing Street aka Street fighter 1... I remember when I finally got a chance to play on the psp a couple years back... and yea I was dissapointed. Thank goodness for the Alpha series... its how I want to remember pre-street fighter 2... even if it did come years later.

M.Garvey @ Nov 2nd 2009 10:21AM

Bah! Begone with your cheap knockoffs! This is a place of intellectual stimulation via videogames...not some sweatshop!

James @ Nov 2nd 2009 12:22PM

"but have you ever had to defend a tower from Vikings?"

Yeah. That was one wild weekend.

Alexisonfire @ Nov 2nd 2009 11:12AM

Just give me Cave Story.

Seriously.

Ironhide @ Nov 2nd 2009 12:59PM

So sad that Fighting Street was so bad. My biggest enjoyment out of it was the 'CD quality soundtrack'. Beat bips and bops any day of the week. I'm rather curious to see how the sound holds up with this port.

superberg @ Nov 2nd 2009 1:51PM

Fighting Street? They expect people to pay for Fighting Street? Who in their right mind would pick that up when there are a bajillion better Street Fighter games on every platform in existence? I'd rather play the NES SFII bootleg than Fighting Street.