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 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[European Nintendo downloads: Zombies Lit, BBQed My Ghost Mansion]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/30/european-nintendo-downloads-zombies-lit-bbqed-my-ghost-mansion/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/30/european-nintendo-downloads-zombies-lit-bbqed-my-ghost-mansion/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/30/european-nintendo-downloads-zombies-lit-bbqed-my-ghost-mansion/#commentsNintendo of Europe apparently believes Halloween is serious business and worth celebrating. Four of the five new downloadable games this week are in some way horror-themed! Zombies Ate My Neighbors arrives on Virtual Console in the same week as its North American release (under the European title Zombies), as does (unfortunately) Ghost Mansion Party. WayForward's LIT proves a more appropriate Halloween release than its Valentine's Day-adjacent release in the US would suggest.

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)

JoystiqEuropean Nintendo downloads: Zombies Lit, BBQed My Ghost Mansion originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
  • Golden Axe (Arcade, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)
Every week, we like to check out what's new on the Virtual Console. We offer these videos as a sort of taste to help you decide whether or not you would want the game in question. We also toss in our own two cents because we're pushy jerks like that.

JoystiqVC in Brief: Golden Axe (Arcade) and Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES) originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>golden-axesegavc-in-briefzombies-ate-my-neighborsMon, 26 Oct 2009 21:15:00 EST<![CDATA[NintendoWare Weekly: Zombies Axed My PictureBook]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/26/nintendoware-weekly-zombies-axed-my-picturebook/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/26/nintendoware-weekly-zombies-axed-my-picturebook/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/26/nintendoware-weekly-zombies-axed-my-picturebook/#commentsOf course Nintendo of America didn't release Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth today. That would have been far too obvious. However, rather than disappointing us with this week's selections, Nintendo actually surprised us with a very welcome, seasonally appropriate Virtual Console classic! Knock on the post break and see what kind of downloadable candy Nintendo is shoving into our pillowcases.

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JoystiqNintendoWare Weekly: Zombies Axed My PictureBook originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This is a pretty juicy rumor. Apparently (as evidenced by the image to the right), Konami digs what Capcom's doing with reviving the retro. You know, Mega Man 9 and Bionic Commando: REarmed? Konami is all about it.

So, the rumor goes (from the rumor section of the September 2008 issue of EGM) that they're thinking about doing a little bit of reviving to one of their older 2D franchises. Talk around Wii Fanboy HQ has us leaning toward three different franchises that could get the treatment: Rocket Knight Adventures, Zombies Ate my Neighbors and Legend of the Mystical Ninja (Ganbare Goemon). Of these three, we're pretty much leaning toward Rocket Knight Adventures, although some of us would like to see Ganbare Goemon get some love.

What's your guess?

JoystiqRumor: Konami trying its hands at retro revival originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Despite its similarly campy plot and titular promises of zombies, Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Brain Thingys (due next spring) won't be the spiritual successor to Konami's Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Yes, we were fooled too when we initially saw the game announced -- jumping off the couch and doing karate kicks in the air, such was our excitement -- but reading more about Ignition Entertainment's title revealed very few similarities with the SNES/Genesis classic.

Instead of fighting off zombies and their B-movie colleagues, you'll be playing as the undead in this comic book-styled adventure, choosing from one of three reanimated characters, each possessing unique abilities. You'll swap between the three to take advantage of their powers and defend the Earth against invading Alien Brain Thingys.

Also, while Zombies Ate My Neighbors was a run-n-gun shooter from a top-down perspective, Teenage Zombies will be a side-scrolling platformer supplemented with puzzles and stylus-based minigames. ZAPS! (Zombie Assembly Pop-up Screen), one of the minigames, has you collecting dismembered body parts to put together a zombie and regain "unhealth points."

Though Ignition Entertainment's short trailer for Teenage Zombies shows very little in the way of action or the actual game, we've embedded it past the post break anyway. To make up for the brevity and vagueness of the video, we've also pasted some lyrics from Salt-N-Pepa's hit single, "Let's Talk About Sex," reimagined as an ode to zombies. We have a lot of these "fixed" songs just lying around our hard drive, waiting to be shared with you.

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JoystiqTeenage Zombies won't eat your neighbors originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Three games that were assumed to be headed for the Virtual Console have disappeared from the ESRB's ratings list. Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game, and Duck Hunt are no longer listed for the Wii on the rating organization's website.

The most obvious interpretation is that these games are no longer planned for release on the Wii. But why would the ESRB remove the ratings? Even if Nintendo (or Konami) decided that they were definitely not going to release the game, ever, the content rating would still be valid. And we find it very hard to believe that Duck Hunt, a game that is pretty much synonymous with Nintendo nostalgia, has been permanently banished from the VC.

[Via GoNintendo]

JoystiqThe ESRB Ate My VC games originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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