Nintendo Download: 5/4/09


DSiWare: Animal Crossing Calculator, 200 Nintendo Points

This inexpensive piece of DSiWare lends your DSi some rather simple calculator functions. The functions pictured above are pretty much all you get, with the addition of a useful Unit Converter tool. You can also listen to the answers spoken out in Animalese, and certain characters may appear when certain numbers show up.


DSiWare: Animal Crossing Clock, 200 Nintendo Points

On the heels of Calculator comes Clock, which provides you with the time. You can set up to three alarms, with the alarm sounds set to a custom Town Tune, or anything you may have created in DSi Sound; as the time passes, the screen will change from day to night, and various Animal Crossing characters will pass by.


WiiWare: Penguin & Friends – Hey! That’s My Fish!, 800 Wii Points

This title pegs itself as an "Interactive Board Game". You and up to three other players will navigate your penguin across the ice floe, trying to get to the hexagons that have more fish, and trying to impede your competitors so they can’t do the same.


Commodore 64: Tower Toppler, 500 Wii Points

In this 1987 platformer, a series of mysterious towers are being constructed on the ocean floor, most likely for nefarious purposes. It’s your job to cross the ocean floor in search of these towers, then scale and destroy every one.

I can’t help but think of Animal Crossing Clock as the DSi equivalent of Ping Pals. The DSi has clock and alarm functions built in already…