NintendoWare Weekly: WiiWare demos, Pokemon Rumble, Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures
by David Hinkle 
{ Nov 16th 2009 at 11:30AM } 
WiiWare
- Pokemon Rumble (Nintendo, 1 - 4 players, 1,500 Wii Points; 0 Wii Points for demo): Nintendo's latest entry in its long-running series features arena combat revolving around robotic Pokemon. While one could argue the regular Pokemon should be just fine with duking it out, we offer that 800 games over the last 12 years have probably taken their toll. Let the little critters have some time off, will ya?
- Bit.Trip Beat demo (Aksys Games, 1 - 4 players, 0 Wii Points): Gaijin Games' quirky, retro-inspired and quite difficult first entry in the Bit. Trip series fuses chiptune beats with the nostalgia of gigantic, bright pixels. You can check out our review here.
- FFCC: My Life as a Darklord demo (Square Enix, 1 player, 0 Wii Points): The follow-up to My Life as a King features tower defense in the most literal sense; as the head evil dude in your tower full of other evil dudes (and evil things, as most evil dudes often find make for good company), you must defend your structure from invading heroes.
- NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits demo (Over the Top Games, 1 - 2 players, 0 Wii Points): This side-scroller with 3D graphics has generally received good marks since its release and now you'll be able to see if those scores are warranted.
- World of Goo demo (2D Boy, 1 - 4 players, 0 Wii Points): You'd have to be damaged in your brain to not try this demo out. World of Goo is one of the best games on WiiWare!
- Art Style: Digidrive (Nintendo, 1 - 2 players, 500 DSi Points): Nintendo's latest Art Style game focuses on ushering along traffic by directing cars and avoiding gridlock at an intersection. Sadly, we doubt the game will feature the Police Academy method, but we've got our fingers crossed!
- Arcade Bowling (Skyworks Interactive, 1 player, 200 DSi Points): Activision founder David Crane helped come up with Arcade Bowling. In short: it's skee ball for your DSi.
- Robot Rescue (Teyon, 1 player, 200 DSi Points): In a bizarre twist on the inevitable future, players must save robots trapped inside of an evil labyrinth -- instead of, you know, fleeing from them in terror and sending Kyle Reese into the past to defend our unborn human leader.
- Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures (SNES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points): Before Lego Indiana Jones took a stab at the three original films, there was this SNES classic. You'll play through classic moments from the movies, such as the boulder chase from Raiders of the Lost Ark and the mine cart chase from Temple of Doom.
- Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (TG16, 1 - 2 players, 700 Wii Points): This 8-bit PCEngine port of the classic 2D fighter features all original 12 characters and a VS mode for taking on your soon-to-not-be-friends-because-you-won't-stop-being-cheap-with-Vega.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Caveman @ Nov 16th 2009 11:36AM
Pokemon is still hanging in there? It came after my childhood, but I remember how huge Pokemon was.
All I had were crappy Pogs, which I never bothered playing with. LOL.
Shagittarius @ Nov 16th 2009 11:52AM
I had convinced this really cute girl in school that POGS were like little hamsters, and the game was to take the heavy metal slammers and try to knock them unconscious.
She was horrified, but she found out later that I was a liar.
Seemingly unrelated she ended up marrying my best friend and having 2 children with him. Who knows maybe it was all because of the POGS.
dantebk @ Nov 16th 2009 11:39AM
Demos! Awesome! I will forego any "it's about time" bitterness and just be excited about being able to try Bit.Trip Beat and NyxQuest, both of which are games I'm interested in but couldn't quite pull the trigger on before.
Atlantis1982 @ Nov 16th 2009 5:39PM
Honestly, it is a great moment to say, "ABOUT FARKING TIME!"
:)
waynski1457 @ Nov 16th 2009 11:44AM
You have to damaged in your brain not to already have World of Goo by now. Kind of a bad choice of demo if you ask me, because of this fact. They should put a demo up for Swords and Soldiers. More people need to play this game ASAP!
Warlock @ Nov 16th 2009 11:52AM
I don't know, I didn't pick it up until they did that "Name your price" thing about a month ago. It's a very fun game, but sometimes I feel it's a little over-hyped.
sam @ Nov 16th 2009 12:33PM
No, they should put the demos up for crap games that I have no intention of buying but would kind of like to play for ten minutes just to see how bad they are!
Ahem, maybe a personal perspective there... but er... I play the DS demos of some pretty crappy games...
Warlock @ Nov 16th 2009 11:49AM
So this is like the Smash TV version of Pokemon? Is it wrong that this looks like it might actually be somewhat fun?
Katana Master @ Nov 16th 2009 1:52PM
Pokemon games have always been fun.
Warlock @ Nov 16th 2009 2:47PM
Pokemon Ranch was fun?
BPMOmega [XBL, PSN, Steam] @ Nov 16th 2009 7:19PM
Pokémon Ranch isn't a game. It's more like a... utility.
Warlock @ Nov 17th 2009 10:06AM
What about Hey You! Pikachu? That was definately a game.
Nook @ Nov 16th 2009 12:01PM
Demos?? Finally. Now I can try out Kindred Spirits. This is good.
How's about we get a Spirit Tracks demo up for the DS service????? :)
side note - I bought WoG for my wife @ 1500 points and the N channel stats show it has been played once, for a total of 1 minute. That was me just checking it out, I don't care for the game - and if there had been a demo I most likely would not have made the purchase after seeing that the old ball and chain (I kid! I kid!) wasn't going ot play it, damn iTouch.
Wasting my megglebites and bells. pfft.
Mr Mobius - the wandering artist @ Nov 16th 2009 12:53PM
Give it more than a minute and you may be surprised. No promises, but give it justice and try to see if it's good.
Warlock @ Nov 16th 2009 1:00PM
This was sort of my first impression, but yeah, if you give it a chance it does get pretty fun. I think it was a little overhyped, but certainly not a bad game.
Kevin242 @ Nov 16th 2009 12:22PM
Hey the Turbo Grafx was 16 bit!! That is why it was called Turbo Grafx 16, and it competed with the Genesis in the US (well it was crushed by). At any rate the Street Fighter port is more akin to a 16-bit game than a 8bit.
BPMOmega [XBL, PSN, Steam] @ Nov 16th 2009 7:22PM
Not quite. It had an 8-bit CPU, and dual 16-bit GPUs. So... it's a hybrid of the past and the (then) present.
Oedi @ Nov 16th 2009 12:38PM
Um, the name of the Pokemon game in the image is Scramble not Rumble.
So what is it?
Warlock @ Nov 16th 2009 1:03PM
Different countries = different names? The name of Smash Bros Brawl was also "Smash Bros X" in Japan, so yeah....
tcat @ Nov 16th 2009 1:03PM
In Japan, it is called, "Melee! Pokémon Scramble"
In the US, it is called, "Pokémon Rumble"
Dreganfyre @ Nov 16th 2009 1:56PM
Wow, that was really fast. O_O Looks like I have some demos to try out.
Josh @ Nov 16th 2009 3:40PM
That image in your avatar is my phone's wallpaper.
tkAshur @ Nov 16th 2009 4:08PM
All I wanna know is if this pokemon game will land me any rare mons' for the pearl/diamond games. Just wanna complete that dang dex already and TRU isn't poopin out the rare ones fast enough(i'm lookin at you celebi.)
Petebot330 @ Nov 16th 2009 4:54PM
I am sooooo glad I don't understand this at all.
Linka @ Nov 17th 2009 4:26AM
I tried out the Darklord and Rumble demos today. Having a demo service has allowed me to see just how fun Rumble is, and I'm now looking forward to getting a points card so I can obtain it.
It ALMOST makes up for the fact that Cave Story still isn't out, yet!
Overlord Chan @ Nov 17th 2009 1:04PM
Wow, the music is bad arse.