DSiWare: PictureBook Games: the Royal Bluff, 500 Nintendo Points
This title bills itself as "a game of strategy and deceit". You are shown rows of colored chips on the board, and as you remove and add chips to certain rows, you are also trying to deduce the colors your opponent has assigned to the chips. I’m not really sure how it works either, but you and up to three other players can have fun trying to figure it out.
DSiWare: Sudoku, 200 Nintendo Points
Electronic Arts appears to think you can never have enough Sudoku, and is throwing their hat into the ring. Their Sudoku offers hints, tutorials, timers, a sleek interface, varying background themes, hundreds of puzzles, five difficulty levels ranging from Easy to Insane, error-checking tools, and the ability to add in new puzzles from your local newspaper.
WiiWare: Tales of Monkey Island, Episode 3: Lair of the Leviathan, 1,000 Nintendo Points
While on the lookout for La Esponja Grande, Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate, and company end up swallowed by a giant manatee. In this third chapter of the five-episode season, you’ll encounter famous explorers, pirate hunters, and a giant demonic skull.
WiiWare: Ghost Mansion Party, 1,000 Nintendo Points
This party game mixes cooperative and competitive play, as you and three others try to drive mean spirits out of a mansion, so the good spirits can reside within once again. Travel across the mansion’s game board, playing mini-games and finding clues that will lead you to the hidden treasure.
SNES: Zombies Ate My Neighbors, 800 Nintendo Points
Zombies ate your neighbors! Now you need to somehow save the day. Zeke and Julie will traverse through 48 levels filled with zombies that need defeating and victims that need saving, collecting new weapons and looking for the seven bonus levels at the same time.
Arcade: Golden Axe, 900 Nintendo Points
The original side-scroller in the series makes its way to the Virtual Console. The Death Adder has kidnapped the king and the princess, and it’s up to you, as one of three powerful warriors, to save the day and beat up a bunch of bad guys. Up to two players can play simultaneously.
A pretty big haul this week. I know a lot of people who swear by Zombies, so hopefully they’ll enjoy this Halloween treat. And I’m sure somebody doesn’t have enough Sudoku yet.
FINALLY! Zombies ate my neighbors! I remember playing that game on SNES with my friend all the time!