News: Game & Watch Hits DSi
Posted 26 Mar 2010 at 10:43 by Tom Phillips
This week's DSiWare and WiiWare releases, plus more Virtual Console titles in the Hanabi Festival...
Nintendo, with these downloadable releases you are truly spoiling us this week! Most notably, the return of Game & Watch titles as DSiWare downloads. Here's the full list:
- WiiWare - Art of Balance (Shin'en Multimedia, 800 Points)
Grab your Wii Remote and balance as many bricks into stacks as possible in this physics-based puzzler. With over 100 levels to challenge not only your skills but also your imagination, the game is easy to pick up and hard to put away. - WiiWare - Diner Dash (Hudson, 1000 Points)
Diner Dash, the number one PC Action Puzzle game has landed on WiiWare. Guide Flo, an office-worker turned restaurateur, as she builds up her empire over four unique diners. Go online to face players in head to head matches. If you feel up to the challenge, join up with a friend or another player online for a Team Dash game where your team will take on six other players to see whose diner is the best in town. - Virtual Console - Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber (Square Enix, Nintendo 64, 1200 Points)
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber is a tactical RPG for the Nintendo 64. Featuring a gripping storyline with multiple possible endings, and a genre-defining character class system, this strategic game has rightly retained its place in the hearts of tactical RPG fans for over a decade. With civil war brewing, Magnus Gallant is faced with a terrible choice: to betray his own noble origins in the name of liberty, or turn a blind eye to the evils of his rotten society. - Virtual Console - Fatal Fury Special (D4 Enterprise, NEOGEO, 900 Points)
This fighting game, originally released in 1993, pits a total of 15 different fighters against each other. The cast includes a rosta of characters from the original Fatal Fury and its sequel, along with special guest Ryo Sakazaki.
- Nintendo DSiWare - Game & Watch Experience a piece of Nintendo history with the Game & Watch series on Nintendo DSiWare. Each title is a perfect recreation of a classic LCD game from the early 1980s, including normal Game A and alternate Game B modes, plus fully functional clock and alarm.
- Game & Watch: Chef (200 Points)
In Chef, you are a cook, frantically flipping food with your frying pan for as long as you can. Watch out for the pesky cat, trying to put you off by grabbing your food with a fork. - Game & Watch: Judge (200 Points)
Judge is a game of quick reactions, starring the character that would later become known as Mr Game & Watch. Two characters hold signs, on which numbers appear after a countdown. The player with the higher number can hit the opponent, but the opponent can also dodge. Each player can also try to attack before the countdown ends, risking that they may have a lower number. Game A pits you against the computer while Game B lets you play against a friend. - Game & Watch: Mario's Cement Factory (200 Points)
In Mario's Cement Factory, your job is to keep the factory going. Move Mario around the platforms and elevators, pull the levers to drop cement into containers, and fill up the trucks waiting to make their deliveries. Just like other Game & Watch titles, Game B mode is the tougher challenge; with faster, randomly moving platforms.
- DSiWare - Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A. (Gameloft, 500 Points)
Move to the West Coast and immerse yourself in L.A. gang life with Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A. Complete 75 missions that combine the best of action and driving games. Explore L.A.'s famous neighbourhoods and experience a unique feeling of freedom as you drive anywhere in open environments and feel free to complete missions at your own pace. Will you live the golden life or become just another thug? - DSiWare - Super Yum Yum Puzzle Adventures (Mastertronic, 800 Points)
A multi award-winning puzzle game featuring a chameleon called Leon. With forty eight levels across four worlds and exclusive Nintendo DSi features, players need to navigate over many hours of mind bending gameplay while they try and rescue Leon's babies from the belly of Ms. Tum Tum!
What will you be downloading this week?