News: Australia's Affairs
Posted 24 Mar 2003 at 19:24 by Ashley Jones
It's not looking good in the land down under for the GameCube.
ATV Quad Power Racing 2 (no release)
Barbie Time Traveller (no release)
Butt Ugly Martians: Zoom or Doom (no release)
Casper Spirit Dimensions (no release)
Rally Championship (no release)
However, some good news has been announced. Nintendo are to release a Player's Choice range in Australia aswell. The press release is below.
Australia, Melbourne, March 24th 2003 - Nintendo Australia are celebrating the best games of 2002 by introducing the Player's Choice range on April 2nd, 2003. Nintendo has selected some of the best-selling NINTENDO GAMECUBE games of 2002 and is offering them to gamers at a recommended retail price of $49.95.
Games in the Player's Choice range will include some of Nintendo's top selling classics Luigi's Mansion, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pikmin with many more great games to be added in the near future.
Remember Luigi's Mansion? Now it is part of the Player's Choice range and is ready to be enjoyed once more. Explore a frightening ghost-filled mansion with Luigi as he hunts for his brother, Mario. Whether it's the spooky shadows or the lightening bolts illuminating the house, the creepy atmosphere will keep you alert from room to room and draw you straight into this game. With a host of appealing characters, great special effects and compelling gameplay, Luigi's Mansion delivers the quality of entertainment for which Nintendo is famous.
Also included in this choice collection is the legendary Super Smash Bros. Melee, the game that sold over half a million copies across Europe and that saw the likes of Mario, Pikachu, Link and Yoshi come to blows. Players can select to stage these fights in some of the most famous backdrops in video gaming history. Grab Pikachu and send him rocketing into the skies at Mushroom Kingdom or slap Link on the perilous F-Zero racing tracks.
Or enter the weirdly wonderful world of the Pikmin. Players take the role of Captain Olimar, an astronaut whose spacecraft is forced to crash-land onto a new planet. You have 30 short days to rebuild the broken ship before the life-support system runs out, and you have eager little plant-like creatures called Pikmin to help you do it. This multi-tasked army will search for your ship, build bridges, knock walls downs with their heads, carry equipment and fend off nasty giant enemies by the dozen. Allow the boundaries of your imagination to be pushed to the limit!
Gameplay with Nintendo guarantees great visuals, cool soundtracks and familiar faces. And now you can play the best games for around $49.95.
Recent news has announced that Phantasy Star Online will not hit Australian shores until April 11th, and even worse, the GameCube will not go online until late 2003 or even early 2004.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin's release date has been pushed back from March 25th to June 25th and the following games have no release dates and are probably canned:
However, some good news has been announced. Nintendo are to release a Player's Choice range in Australia aswell. The press release is below.
Australia, Melbourne, March 24th 2003 - Nintendo Australia are celebrating the best games of 2002 by introducing the Player's Choice range on April 2nd, 2003. Nintendo has selected some of the best-selling NINTENDO GAMECUBE games of 2002 and is offering them to gamers at a recommended retail price of $49.95.
Games in the Player's Choice range will include some of Nintendo's top selling classics Luigi's Mansion, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pikmin with many more great games to be added in the near future.
Remember Luigi's Mansion? Now it is part of the Player's Choice range and is ready to be enjoyed once more. Explore a frightening ghost-filled mansion with Luigi as he hunts for his brother, Mario. Whether it's the spooky shadows or the lightening bolts illuminating the house, the creepy atmosphere will keep you alert from room to room and draw you straight into this game. With a host of appealing characters, great special effects and compelling gameplay, Luigi's Mansion delivers the quality of entertainment for which Nintendo is famous.
Also included in this choice collection is the legendary Super Smash Bros. Melee, the game that sold over half a million copies across Europe and that saw the likes of Mario, Pikachu, Link and Yoshi come to blows. Players can select to stage these fights in some of the most famous backdrops in video gaming history. Grab Pikachu and send him rocketing into the skies at Mushroom Kingdom or slap Link on the perilous F-Zero racing tracks.
Or enter the weirdly wonderful world of the Pikmin. Players take the role of Captain Olimar, an astronaut whose spacecraft is forced to crash-land onto a new planet. You have 30 short days to rebuild the broken ship before the life-support system runs out, and you have eager little plant-like creatures called Pikmin to help you do it. This multi-tasked army will search for your ship, build bridges, knock walls downs with their heads, carry equipment and fend off nasty giant enemies by the dozen. Allow the boundaries of your imagination to be pushed to the limit!
Gameplay with Nintendo guarantees great visuals, cool soundtracks and familiar faces. And now you can play the best games for around $49.95.
