Nintendo Download: 11/16/09
In addition to the games listed below, Nintendo also released free demos for the games Pokémon Rumble, Bit.Trip.Beat, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord, NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits and World Of Goo.
DSiWare: Art Style: Digidrive, 500 Nintendo Points
Digidrive tasks you with directing traffic. You try to direct cars down certain roads depending on their shape, stacking them in order to create fuel, which helps you get further in the game (no, it doesn’t make much sense ti us either). Try Endless, Vs., or Overdrive mode.
DSiWare: Arcade Bowling, 200 Nintendo Points
Developed by David Crane, one of the original founders of Activision, Arcade Bowling is skeeball. Flick the stylus to send your ball into one of the target holes. You have the standard Classic mode, and also Progressive mode, which enhances the gameplay as you progress.
DSiWare: Robot Rescue, 200 Nintendo Points
This puzzle game has you rescuing robots from labyrinths, but it’s not quite so easy. Every robot moves in the same direction at once, so you have to watch out for every robot on the screen in this clever puzzle game, while avoiding obstacles and taking advantage of sticky glue.
WiiWare: Pokémon Rumble, 1,500 Nintendo Points
This different Pokémon game has you controlling "Toy Pokémon" as they battle it out against waves of other Pokémon. As you defeat opponents, you can add them to your collection, so that in later battles you may exploit their elemental types against the enemy; see if you can make it to the Battle Royale. Up to four players can play at once, cooperatively, and you can save your favorite Pokémon to your Wii Remote and take them to your friends’ Wiis.
SNES: Indiana Jones’ Greatest Adventures, 800 Nintendo Points
This action platformer features all the most famous scenes from the original three Indiana Jones movies, including the mine-cart chase, the trials of Temple of Doom, and Colonel Vogel.
TurboGrafx16: Street Fighter II: Champion Edition, 700 Nintendo Points
This version of Street Fighter II claims to most authentically represent the original arcade version, including special stages, sound effects and more. Other than that, bonus content is not known.
I am glad to finally see some demos show up on the Shop Channel; the other systems have had them for ages. Also, how many versions of Street Fighter II do we really need?
