NintendoWare Weekly: Mighty Switch Force, Tetris [update: Swapnote]

Sure, you can download Tetris just about anywhere these days, but you couldn't download Game Boy Tetris. Today, the Game Boy's killer app arrives on the 3DS eShop, nostalgic music and all. It's accompanied by a much less familiar game: WayForward's brand new Mighty Switch Force. So, it's kind of an excellent day for the eShop!

Meanwhile, amateur chiptuners can try out a new music program on DSiWare designed for arranging retro-style music.

Mighty Switch Force (3DS eShop)

Update: Despite not mentioning it this morning, Nintendo also released the drawing/messaging app Swapnote for 3DS. That's free on the eShop right now!

WiiWare

Soccer Up! (EnjoyUp Games, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points): A "funny soccer game" for up to four players.
Demo: Gnomz (QubicGames, 1-4 players, 0 Wii Points): Get to gno this garden gnome fighting game.

3DS eShop

Tetris (Game Boy) (Nintendo, 1 player, $3.99): It's Tetris. You know ... Tetris.
Mighty Switch Force! (WayForward, 1 player, $5.99): As a cybernetic cop, you take part in both run-and-gun shooting and shifting of platforms in and out of 3D space.

DSiWare

Doodle Fit (Gamelion, 1 player, $4.99/500 DSi Points): Drag blocks to fill in shapes.
Rytmik Retrobits (Cinemax, 1 player, $7.99/800 DSi Points): The music creation suite gets a special "8-bit" version for chiptune composition.
Chronicles of Vampires: Origins (Teyon, 1 player, $4.99/500 DSi Points): Find hidden objects and solve puzzle minigames to find ... something about vampires.

Reader Comments (16)

Why not Tetris DX?

@Oddgirl lol that's later

i still have Tetris around here somewhere in a gameboy color...
/buy

Must..resist...buying...tetris.....

I already own the DSiWare one and Tetris Axis...

That screenshot of Mighty Switch Force reminds me of Gunstar Heroes. That's friggin awesome.

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The video of it also gave me that impression too, like a nifty 3D shifting version of GH. And the characters seem humorous enough too. I'll have to download it up this weekend when time allows.

You might be able to download Tetris anywhere, but can you buy a physical copy of Tetris anywhere!? :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0P_lIWheXo

@Pikachief

You just made my day.

I thought the killer application of the Game Boy was that it played video games...

I'm likely to get Mighty Switch Force. My concern is that Wayforward likes to make hard (to me) games. I gave up on Mighty Milky Way when the final level seemed like it was several times harder than the difficulty of the entire game.

I still have, or have tracked down at some point, an original GB Tetris cartridge, so I'll skip that-- even if I didn't, though, I also have Tetris DS, which is the second-best Tetris version ever. You know in your heart that The Next Tetris Online is the best, and that the Dreamcast version of it is the best of that. Don't deny it.

As for Mighty Switch Force-- I love WayForward, but I also have the same problem @superfrick does: they're too bloody hard! I literally couldn't get past World 1 of Mighty Milky Way.

@SoLiDuSSnake
but it's for the 3ds...

>.> Am I imagining things or didn't the new system update for 3DS allow for demos and such? Shouldn't they have a demo for Mighty Switch Force? Cause it looks interesting... but demos would help @.@

Doodle fit is a pretty good fill in the puzzle game that was also released on the Android OS.

Awesome week. Tetris still holds up today and in my opinion better than the iOS version.

Swapnote is frustrating. You have to send out around 50 messages to friends and "buy" features with coins in order to access everything. I understand a grind for Find Mii, but this? The hell?

NintendoWare Weekly: Mighty Switch Force, Tetris [update: Swapnote]

Mighty Switch Force (3DS eShop)

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