NintendoWare Weekly: Super Smash Bros., Ninja Gaiden, Dragon's Lair

by JC Fletcher on Dec 21st 2009 10:07AM

Nintendo announced its 500th downloadable Wii game today, reserving the honor for Super Smash Bros. Or, we suppose, for any of the other Virtual Console or WiiWare games released today. But Nintendo says it's Super Smash Bros., and that certainly seems like a more special way to celebrate a milestone than, say, the arcade version of Ninja Gaiden. See all the WiiWare, Virtual Console, and DSiWare releases after the break.
DSiWare

UNO (Gameloft, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points): Though a version of the classic card game with online play sounds nice, we can't help but notice that it costs a lot more than a deck of cards.
Dragon's Lair (Digital Leisure, 1 player, 800 DSi Points): The first laserdisc game on DSiWare! Guide Dirk the Daring through the castle of the dragon Singe by pressing directional or action buttons at the right moment.
Hot and Cold: A 3D Hidden Object Adventure (Majesco, 1-2 players, 800 DSi Points): The hidden-object game, previously released on cartridge, returns as DSiWare. Warmer!
High Stakes: Texas Hold'Em (Hudson, 1-4 players, 500 DSi Points): The stakes are high indeed -- are you willing to risk 500 of your points on some poker?
myNotebook: Green (Nnooo, 1 player, 200 DSi Points): It's a notebook app, with 18 different (unlockable!) paper styles. If you need one of those, here it is!

WiiWare

Eco Shooter: Plant 530 (Nintendo, 1player, 1,000 Wii Points): Aliens have animated all of Earth's cans, and it's up to you to shoot them down and reclaim their Can Energy in this light gun game developed by Intelligent Systems. Can Energy!
TV Show King 2 (Gameloft, 1-4 players, 800 Wii Points) 8,000 new questions, online play, and the ability to write your own questions. That's why there's a sequel to TV Show King. It was our first question too.
Pallurikio (Playstos Entertainment, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points): A platformer about a spherical character who can jump and (obviously) roll.
Happy Holidays Christmas (505 Games, 1 player, 500 Wii Points): Create and send Christmas cards to your friends' Wii Message Boards. We couldn't believe this was real when the Halloween version came out, and we don't believe it now.

Virtual Console

Super Smash Bros. (N64, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points): Before Brawl's expansive cast of characters, before trophies, and before Adventure Mode, there was just Super Smash Bros., a game focused entirely on multiplayer fighting for up to four players.
Ninja Gaiden (Arcade, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points): Virtual Console Arcade pricing is not as standardized as that for other systems, so whenever something shows up for under 800 Points, it's a delightful surprise! Like, for example, the arcade brawler that started the Ninja Gaiden series.

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Reader Comments (63)

Spelled "Wii" wrong in the first paragraph.

Grammar Nazi, reporting for duty!

FAL-CON PUUUUUUNCCCHHHH!!!! *knocks grammar nazi offscreen*

Nah, that's just constructive criticism.

First of all, its pronounced "FAL-CONE POUNCH".

Second of all, why can't I change my stupid profile picture from Generic Mario? Everytime I do, it says it'll take up to 5 minutes, but it's really more like 5-6 months.

But it's for a cheap Chinese knock-off Wi so it's the correct spelling. Super Smash Bros is the 500th game inbuilt into this, along with such waggle games as Pacman, Pong and Global Thermonuclear Warfare.

@ Ghost_Crisis

If you haven't already, try updating it in the latest version of Firefox.

YES! SUCCESS!

I still can't figure out where to log in to get a profile, lol.

Actually, its not generic mario. But i have no clue what it is.

***FALLLCCCCOOOOOOONNNN PAAAUUUUUWNCH!!

"I still can't figure out where to log in to get a profile, lol. "

Click your screen name in any post.

I do and it says (no profile found) with a list of my posts and no other options.

Karate Tortoise, it's Paper Mario.

More like typo nazi.

^Reply fail Nazi

^child

Normally I'd be all over Ninja Gaiden, even the arcade game, but I spent the better part of a gamefaqs-free year trying to unlock it in NG Black. Was it worth it? No, but at least I got to spend quality time with the greatest 3D action game ever made (imho of course).

On the one hand, YAY! It's about time Smash Bros came out. I didn't like Melee (it was way too fast for my tastes) so the original Smash was always the best until Brawl for me. I can't wait to play it again.
...on the other hand, I really, really hate NOA for sitting on these bigger VC games like all the time.

Bring on Illusion of Gaia next!

and thats something else we have in common

SamFish, how can i know you aint a clone of me??? I can recall giving some of my blood to a friend on mine back in junior high, who wanted to create EVAS in his room.

He was crazy, hell yeah, but he's a genious

I would pay Nintendo damn good money if they could figure out how to exploit the VC to their advantage. For example, I would pay some kind of conversion fee to transfer my Super NES and NES purchases to my DSi. Nintendo could make $200 off of me at $2 a pop, easy. Or how about putting some GB and GBC games up there? Are they running out of places to store cash reserves or what?

yeah me too. melee was WAY to fast pace for me, although i did enjoy it. SSBB was the one i really enjoyed the most, i just wish the online wasn't so laggy. it would have only increased my enjoyment and love for the game but i still had plenty of fun playing it offline. i mean, almost everyday, my friend would come over and we would play SSBB ours at a time fighting against the CPU's. i really felt that the CPU's in this SSBB were the best because everytime me and friend fought them they would have a different style of fighting. one day we would mop the floor with them, then the next day they would slap us silly.

Dammit, when will we get DK64?? -__- why is the N64 release rate so low?

They probably aren't the easiest to get working perfectly. I mean, they are the only games that have to reinitialize after going into the Wii Home menu. Could be that Nintendo of America royally sucks with VC though, the games that haven't been coming out on N64VC have primarily ben the western developed ones.

Don't hate, emulate :)

It seems that VC releases is another realm where NCL has more of a say in what gets released and what doesn't than either of the other regions, which would make sense since, from our western perspective, their seems to be an imbalance in TurboGrafx16 games (a console that was basically DOA over here, but huge in Japan), and a shortage of N64 games (a console that performed best in the west, but really came up short in Japan)

Dude its beacause the game was developed by rare and rare belongs to microsoft they'r in court trying to solve it.

I'm not sure about this, what is the difference between the DK Country trilogy and DK 64? DK64 characters and music were featured in the latest Smash Bros game. I don't think Rare has rights to DK64 at all, but I might be wrong. There was a Banjo-kazooie cameo, I think, but I'm pretty sure one of the SNES games also had references to older Rare games...

SHOW ME YOUR BOOBS!

I mean MOVES!

dangit....

I cam going to hold of on any WiiWare/VC games until Castlevania Rebirth is released...

It's about freakin time! This is likely to be my last purchase on the virtual console and will complete my collection of super smash titles I can play on the Wii with my wavebird.

Please wake me up when Nintendo gets their act together and releases Earthbound.

For. Real.

legal issues. It got an ESRB rating a long, long time ago, but has been held in limbo as NoA lawyers suggested that a lot of the music was ripped off/improperly licensed, and a lot of the pop culture references would require licensing too

More of a mess than it's worth for them, sadly enough. The better option for them would be to do a trilogy re-release, where they could iron out all the problems keeping the series from going global (tunes and references in EarthBound, severe balancing issues in Mother 1)

I'd be more in the mood for Mother 1 & 2 with those titles (Earthbound as fitting as it is, only screws up the naming for the other games).

That way they could sell Mother 3 as DSiWare.

"legal issues. It got an ESRB rating a long, long time ago, but has been held in limbo as NoA lawyers suggested that a lot of the music was ripped off/improperly licensed, and a lot of the pop culture references would require licensing too"

B.S. There are hardly any pop culture references in the game and ALL of the music is original. The problem is that Nintendo of America is butt-hurt over Earthbound's poor sales even after all the hype and the super-special edition release that included the Nintendo Power guidebook. Ever since they've pretended that the series didn't exist, especially regarding Mother 3.

I'm surprised that Brawl even made it overseas since the game contained Lucas and other Mother 3 references.

No, there definitely are a lot of pop-culture references and songs that sound eerily similar to licensed music in Earthbound.

http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/02/earthbound-legal-issues/

Sounds good to me.

It's about fucking time they release SSB to the US.

I wonder why anyone would want to drop cash on SSB if they have Brawl? I mean, it's not like there was anything taken away from the original formula by the later iterations.. I feel like there isn't enough difference between the old and the new to warrant a 'nostalgia' purchase. Maybe I don't know what the Hell I'm talking about!

Some people like Melee more than Brawl. Some people like SSB64 more than Melee.

Maybe some people like SSB64 more than Brawl OR Melee. I don't know.

I feel the same way. This is more for nostalgia purposes, but i feel like the fuzzy feeling will wear off before the money is justified. This game doesn't really cut into brawl sales either.

Which is why we will never see Super Mario All Stars or Chrono Trigger for the VC

Some people like Kart Fighter better than SSB64.

Actually, they are VERY different, in gameplay, feeling, scenarios, moves, speed, etc.

Oh, and never say something like that in front of a Smash Master. They're freaks.

Mostly hylure level on n64 and the opening .... OH THE OPENING !

that was epic .. and showed the real story of smash bros ! xD

They might want to play with red shells

i still play ssb on my N64. If that broke for some reason, i would def want to buy it. such a great game and the nostalgia value for me is off the charts

Anyone know if there is a reason why they haven't released Mario Party yet?
I read somewhere they probably aren't releasing it because they got sued back in the day over all the blisters people got on there hand (you know that bike game where you twirled the analog stick to pedal the bike)

Probably made up though

Nintendo really seems to have forgotten about Mario Party since they released 8 and DS

Not sure that that's a bad thing, though.

The arcade version of Ninja Gaiden was the first game I hoped for when they started the arcade section of Wiiware. Dropped plenty of quarters into that game cabinet and am now looking forward to playing it at home.

Too little too late Nintendo. Get your shit together.

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