Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[NintendoWare Weekly: Adventure Island, Double Bloob]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/01/nintendoware-weekly-adventure-island-double-bloob/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/01/nintendoware-weekly-adventure-island-double-bloob/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/01/nintendoware-weekly-adventure-island-double-bloob/#comments The 3DS's Virtual Console adds an extra layer of abstraction today, with the Game Boy port of the NES version of Adventure Island II (called, confusingly enough, "Adventure Island.") You can enjoy this Game Boy version of an NES game in a little Game Boy-looking window on your 3DS!

DSiWare features Double Bloob, a vertical shooter/puzzle game we first covered way back in 2007, years before there even was a DSiWare service. It's gone through a lot of changes since then, not the least of which was a departure of the development team from its former home at the infamous Nibris.

Gallery: Adventure Island (Game Boy)

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsadventure-islanddouble-bloobdsdsiwareeshophouse-mdnintendonintendoware-weeklywiiwiiwarexmas-puzzleThu, 01 Dec 2011 12:40:00 EST<![CDATA[NintendoWare Weekly: Balloon Kid, 1950s Lawn Mower Kids]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/nintendoware-weekly-balloon-kid-1950s-lawn-mower-kids/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/nintendoware-weekly-balloon-kid-1950s-lawn-mower-kids/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/nintendoware-weekly-balloon-kid-1950s-lawn-mower-kids/#comments It's a "kid" oriented week for Nintendo downloadables. If you've been waiting for more Balloon Fight since downloading the NES game -- and of course you have -- Balloon Kid for Game Boy brings you an adventure expanded from that NES game, with new abilities and obstacles. You'll be delighted as long as you don't realize that Japan got the Game Boy Color version ... whoops!

While you have the 3DS open, you can also enjoy a "Main Theme Medley" from the recent Zelda concert on Nintendo Video.

On DSiWare, 1950s Lawn Mower Kids is a game about guiding three of the title characters to perform their gardening duties among UFOs, dogs, and other obstacles.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>1950s-lawn-mower-kids3dsballoon-kiddsdsiwareeshopgnomzhouse-mdnintendonintendoware-weeklywiiwiiwareThu, 03 Nov 2011 11:00:00 EST<![CDATA[NintendoWare Weekly: Horizon Riders, Side Pocket, Simply Minesweeper]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/06/nintendoware-weekly-horizon-riders-side-pocket-simply-mineswe/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/06/nintendoware-weekly-horizon-riders-side-pocket-simply-mineswe/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/06/nintendoware-weekly-horizon-riders-side-pocket-simply-mineswe/#comments The Game Boy collection on the 3DS continues to grow ever so gradually with the addition of Data East's Side Pocket, a pool game. That's "pool" as in the game about hitting numbered balls with a cue, not swimming. Nintendo also informs us that Pokedex 3D has been updated -- but not how it's been updated -- so if you're still working to fill your virtual compendium, check for that addition.

On DSiWare, there's another House MD episode and Simply Minesweeper, a version of the classic timewaster. And on WiiWare: Horizon Riders, a new rail shooter that gives you the option of controlling movement with the Balance Board.

Gallery: Horizon Riders (WiiWare)

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsdsdsiwareeshophorizon-ridershouse-mdhouse-md-skull-and-bonesnintendonintendoware-weeklyside-pocketsimply-minesweeperwiiwiiwareThu, 06 Oct 2011 11:00:00 EST<![CDATA['No one is immune from Dr. House's biting zingers!']]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/06/no-one-is-immune-from-dr-houses-biting-zingers/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/06/no-one-is-immune-from-dr-houses-biting-zingers/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/06/no-one-is-immune-from-dr-houses-biting-zingers/#comments We were going to write a whole post about the DS House M.D. trailer you'll find after the break (courtesy of GoNintendo) and how it kind of looks like a crummy Trauma Team. That said, we felt that the above actual screen capture from the trailer communicates everything you need to know about it perfectly.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>adventurebiting-zingersDShouse-mdits-not-lupuslegacy-interactiveNintendoThu, 06 May 2010 21:30:00 EST<![CDATA[As Seen on TV: Murder, She Wrote and House M.D. games announced]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/10/as-seen-on-tv-murder-she-wrote-and-house-m-d-games-announced/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/10/as-seen-on-tv-murder-she-wrote-and-house-m-d-games-announced/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/10/as-seen-on-tv-murder-she-wrote-and-house-m-d-games-announced/#commentsJust thirteen years after the conclusion of the television show, Legacy Interactive has snapped up the hot Murder, She Wrote license for a PC game. The hidden-object game will feature five all-new mysteries, and will include both the classic Cabot Cave locale and "well-loved characters from the show" including Dr. Seth Hazlitt, Sheriff Mort Metzger, and, of course, crime-solving novelist and potential distant relative Jessica Fletcher.

Slightly more timely is Legacy's announcement of PC and DS games based on the House M.D. license. In this game, players will control the members of Dr. House's diagnostic team, including House himself, in five different cases. According to Legacy, the game will involve diagnosing and treating patients with rare diseases. It is unknown whether this process will involve breaking into their houses, as it always does on the show.

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