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European Nintendo downloads: Banana fighting street

Manic Monkey Mayhem on WiiWare sounds like it could be great (monkeys throw bananas to knock each other off of platforms), with online play -- but, of course, we always feel guarded about unknown WiiWare games. But monkeys! We look forward to hearing impressions.
As for the rest, Uno sounds like Uno and SUDOKU sounds like sudoku, but louder.
- Fighting Street (Turbografx-16 CD-ROM, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Manic Monkey Mayhem (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
- Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
- Uno (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
- A Little Bit of ... All Time Classics: Family Favorites (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
- Bomberman Blitz (DSiWare, 1-8 players, 500 DSi Points)
- SUDOKU (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Japanese Nintendo downloads: Neo Geo, Art Style return
This week marks two major events (sort of) for the Japanese Wii and DSi download services. First, both Wii and DSi downloads now go up on the same date. In this case, it's November 4, which is today in Japan. Second, the Neo Geo is back! The last Neo game came out in Japan in July 2008. On DSiWare, there's more mahjong, more calendar apps, and more Art Style. Digidrive is a remake of one of the original Bit Generations games. It's been released as Intersect in Europe.
- Fire Emblem Gaiden (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
- Fatal Fury Special (Neo Geo, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)
- "Aha! I Got It" Escape Game (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
- Kyoto Students Taishi Higashida Thought Puzzle Inspiration Signed Painting (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- Handy Mahjong (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- Daily Growing Journal Calendar (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- Art Style: DIGIDRIVE (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Nintendoware Weekly: Sparkle Snapshots, Fighting Street, Carnival King & more

As far as we can tell, the highlights of the week are a DSiWare photo decoration app and the embarrassing parent of the Street Fighter series. Hit the post break and find out if any of the many offerings are what you were looking to drain your Nintendo Points on.
MSX returns to Virtual Console in Japan with ... Metal Gear!?
There hasn't been an MSX game released on Virtual Console in Japan since July 2008. Konami has decided to start releasing its MSX library on Virtual Console, and as a result (should these games actually come out), the MSX selection will more than triple in November. Which just means it'll go from a whole two games to seven.One of the MSX classics planned for November? The original Metal Gear! Only available in America as a bonus with Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, the debut of Hideo Kojima's verbose series will be on Japan's Virtual Console for 800 points sometime next month.
The full list of planned releases, which doesn't include whatever arcade games Bandai Namco will overcharge for, is after the break.
European Nintendo downloads: Zombies Lit, BBQed My Ghost Mansion

Perhaps the biggest, scariest surprise of all: Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ is out in Europe, finally! And, while it was released on a cartridge here, it's an 800-point DSiWare download in Europe! No excising of zombie food talk for this one.
- Zombies (SNES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- LIT (WiiWare, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
- Ghost Mansion Party (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
- Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)
- A Little Bit of ... All Time Classics: Card Classics (DSiWare, 1-8 players, 500 DSi Points)
Japanese Nintendo downloads: WiiWare ReBirth

Not enough? How about four Virtual Console games, including a Sonic & Knuckles with the lock-on feature intact? Or a budget DSiWare game about blowing up asteroids to save the Earth?
- @SIMPLE Series Vol. 5: THE Judo (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 700 Wii Points)
- Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
- Bit.Trip: VOID (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
- Shadow Walker (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
- Championship Lode Runner (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
- Sonic & Knuckles (Mega Drive, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
- Face Off (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Rolling Thunder 2 (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Earth Saver (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- Puzzle Selection Monthly Crossword House vol. 6 (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
- Hills and Rivers Remain (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points)
This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Excitebiking to the World Rally

Head past the break for this week's Nintendo Channel content.
NintendoWare Weekly: Zombies Axed My PictureBook

European Nintendo downloads: Protothea finally arrives for some reason

- Shinobi (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Protöthea (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
- A Little Bit of... Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)
- Combat of Giants: Dragons - Bronze Edition (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points)
Gallery: Protothea
Japanese Nintendo downloads: Fire Emblem Premake and Uno
On DS, there's another chunk of The Tower DS, more Japanese city maps, and some English training.
- Fire Emblem: Dragon of Darkness and Sword of Light (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
- Dig Dug (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Dig Dug II (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Uno (WiiWare, 1-6 players, 800 Wii Points)
- The Tower DS: Challenge in front of the suburban train station! Gigantic Shopping Center (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
- Pocket Rurubu: Kamakura and Pocket Rurubu: Osaka (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points each)
- High School English Foundation 400 Word Master (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)
VC in Brief: Rygar (Arcade)
Rygar is a pretty intense title. Luckily, the quarter-munching gameplay of the arcade classic translates to the Wii very well. For one, you don't need to run out of quarters from dying -- oh, and you will die, believe it. Second, every time you die or even continue once you've run out of lives, you pick up right from where you left off. So, there's no replaying stages or sections of the game you've previously played as a result of dying. Have we mentioned how much you'll die?
You will die. A lot.
NintendoWare Weekly: LostWinds, Shootanto, Rygar ... Domo

Gallery: Domo games (DSiWare)
European Nintendo downloads: Surprises abound
Heron: Steam Machine is a really promising-sounding name for a game that turns out to be a pretty familiar puzzle trope, but with rubber ducks added. Not herons. Little Tournament Over Yonder is a cutesy strategy game. and Viking Invasion on DSiWare is tower defense. Wakugumi is an interesting puzzle game in which you move black and white squares around to create unbroken loops, capturing the opposite-color squares inside. And Super Return of the Jedi is a backgammon game. Or a side-scrolling action game based on the movie. One of those.
- Heron: Steam Machine (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
- Little Tournament Over Yonder (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Super Return of the Jedi (SNES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
- Viking Invasion (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)
- Wakugumi - Monochrome Puzzle (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Japanese Nintendo downloads: Kirby and Kissy

DSiWare has an especially full lineup this week, with two new cheapo G.G. Series games, one of which is some kind of ninja platformer, and the other a brawler. There's also 200-point tower defense and math training! For a little more cash, there's another Jinguuji Saburo/Jake Hunter mystery, as Arc System Works takes the Telltale path to releasing adventure games.
- Kirby Super Star (Super Famicom, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Baraduke (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Bakutotsu Kijuutei: Baraduke II (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
- Amakuchi! Dairou Castle (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- Calculation 100 Barrage (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- G.G. Series Ninja Karakuri Den (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- G.G. Series Super Hero Ouga (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- Tantei Saburo Jinguuji: Drastic Move & Mysterious Case (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
VC in Brief: Final Fight 2 (SNES)
Final Fight 2 (SNES, 1 -2 players, 800 Wii Points)
This week's offering punches the Virtual Console silly, continuing the adventures of everyone's favorite wrestler-turned-politician (What, you think Jesse Ventura deserves that honor? Pfft ...) in Final Fight 2. It doesn't innovate or really add much more to the original experience -- well, except for more dudes to punch. There are plenty more thugs to beat on, that's for sure. But what it lacks in innovation, it makes up for in dudes to punch. Seriously, do you wanna punch dudes? Because that's totally what's going on here.












