NintendoWare Weekly: Tales of Monkey Island, Bookworm, The Combatribes
by David Hinkle 
{ Nov 30th 2009 at 12:00PM } 
DSiWare
- Foto Face: The Face Stealer Strikes (EA, 1 player, 800 DSi Points): Comprised of 15 stages, this camera- and microphone-enabled game lets you place your own face on every character in the game as you track down the man who stole your identity.
- Bookworm (Popcap Games, 1 player, 500 DSi Points): Popcap's wordy puzzler finally hits DSiWare and charges players with rearranging tiles to create words. It's kinda like every time you visit a friend's house and do the same thing with the letters on their fridge. Except in Popcap's game, dirty words don't count.
- Master of Illusion Express: Mind Probe (Nintendo, 1 player, 200 DSi Points): This is pretty much the Word of the Day on the Peewee Herman show. You have someone write a word down and when that word is spoken, a DSi alarm will sound. Dancing and screaming not included.
- Sudoku Challenge! (Digital Leisure Inc., 1 player, 500 DSi Points): There's over 100 million different Sudoku puzzles in Sudoku Challenge! Getting through them all seems like the real challenge here.
- Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 4 (Telltale Games, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points): In the fourth chapter of Tales of Monkey Island, Guybrush returns to Flotsam Island ... and doesn't receive much of a warm welcome.
- My Zoo (Hudson Entertainment, 1 player, 500 Wii Points): Breed and care for 12 different types of animals in this sim from Hudson.
- Copter Crisis (Digital Leisure Inc., 1 player, 500 Wii Points): Unlike the crisis of gettin' to da choppa, Digital Leisure's Copter Crisis puts you in the pilot seat of the Helicopter Rescue Squad. Through various missions, you'll help virtual people in distress across the globe.
- Christmas Clix (JC Games Inc., 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points): You and Saint Nick can kick it during his downtime by doing things like stacking packages, collecting candy canes and decorating his Christmas tree. We guess Santa's always got Xmas on the brain.
- The Combatribes (SNES, 1 - 2 players, 800 Wii Points): With evil gang "Guilty Zero" terrorizing the streets of New York, it's up to The Combatribes to gang up and take them down. Fight fire with fire, we suppose.
- Solomon's Key (VC Arcade, 1 - 2 players, 600 Wii Points): In this action-puzzler, wizard Dana is on a quest to find the titular Solomon's Key, a magical tome to battle the evil spirits in the world. Usually when we have problems with evil spirits, we sub-contract that out, but Dana's more the hands-on type, we suppose.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
gatotsu911 @ Nov 30th 2009 12:31PM
Alright, they've spent HOW long promoting Castlevania, and STILL they won't release it?? What gives???
samfish @ Nov 30th 2009 1:51PM
I could be mistaken, but I thought it actually hasn't even officially been announced for anywhere other than Japan yet...
Brodo @ Nov 30th 2009 3:47PM
Typical VC...
I've been waiting 3 years!! 3 long years for a freaking mario pary game. How hard could it be to release at least one of them!!
Yet they have no problem pumping out mario party 19 or whatever they are at
gatotsu911 @ Nov 30th 2009 5:53PM
Samfish, no offense, but you are mistaken. They already promoted it in Nintendo Week and Nintendo Power, with the assurance that it was "coming soon". I mean, it was first freaking revealed because of it ESRB rating!! And yet, still no sign of it. Are they worried it'll take business away from NSMBW, or what??
nofriendo @ Nov 30th 2009 12:07PM
Um... there's some pretty sweet stuff going on in this picture.
Granger @ Nov 30th 2009 12:08PM
Solomon's Key is a great game. I think the NES version was one of if not the first third party virtual console games though, and I don't remember if I bought it already. Might get the arcade version, haven't played it in years.
RavenLord @ Nov 30th 2009 12:08PM
Awww still no Castlevania.........booooooo!!!!!!!
Worsel @ Nov 30th 2009 12:09PM
Dig that Guile haircut.
Marco le Polo @ Nov 30th 2009 12:19PM
In reference to Master of Illusion Express: Mind Probe
AHHHHHHH!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NTc4OyPHuY
Jeff Smith @ Nov 30th 2009 12:47PM
hmmm, now I wonder what happens when you press the 2p button.
Stevetrop @ Nov 30th 2009 12:57PM
Damn I'd love to have The Combatribes on XBLA. I had so much fun playing that game in the arcade section of kmart growing up. Having it online with multiplayer would be icing on the cake.
mortegro545 @ Nov 30th 2009 2:02PM
What happened to Nintendo's family values first?!
Steroids are the wrong play Nintendo!
Erock @ Nov 30th 2009 2:10PM
Combatribes??? Finally!!!!
Can't wait to crush some clown skull with Bulova, and play as the soldier in vs. mode with his two different moves, shoot gun standing or shoot gun kneeling. The end boss is super sexy too...
This is a good day indeed.
Maxx the Slash @ Nov 30th 2009 2:37PM
Combattribes? Really? Does that mean there's hope for a Return of Double Dragon (Super Double Dragon)?
Boo!? @ Nov 30th 2009 3:53PM
Solomon's Key theme song is awesome
NForever @ Nov 30th 2009 6:17PM
Has anyone else ever had problems reading start screens?
"Push 1P Button Only"
What's 1P Button? There's an A, B, C-stick, D-pad, L and R, and sometimes Z... But 1P?
Brian Shaffner @ Nov 30th 2009 11:46PM
Oh god, Combat Tribes.
The best is the weight/height descriptions for each character I think blondy in the blue jumpsuit pictured above is said to be something like 7'3" while weighing 345 lbs.
Nobody that big would be out fighting bad guys and such, people that big usually have some sort of degenerative bone disease and wouldn't be effective against battling fat bald dudes wielding 2x4's.