ONE WIIWARE GAME AND ONE VIRTUAL CONSOLE GAME ADDED (AND ONE SURPRISE COMING) TO WII SHOP CHANNEL
Feb. 16, 2009
Outer
space meets inner space at the Wii™ Shop Channel this Presidents Day. A
new WiiWare™ title will have you soaring across the astral plane, while
a vintage NES™ shooter for the Virtual Console™ invites you to battle
your way through the innards of an alien creature. Choose a hot new
WiiWare game or a Gradius spin-off. It's what the presidents would have wanted.
In
other news, the Wii-kly Update has a fun surprise coming soon for all
our fans. We can't tell you the secret just yet but maybe we'll offer
you some hidden clues. From AZ to NC, if you're a fan, your applause
could rattle your walls, windows, door. You might enjoy this news
whether you live in a brick house or Vanderbilt dorm. Even people
living along Route 286 in rural Pennsylvania ought to be excited. It'll
feel like a bunch of birthday greetings and, really, who could ask for
more? But that's about all we can say for now, so be sure to check
future Wii-kly Updates.
Nintendo adds new and classic games to
the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii owners
with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to
download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel
or at retail outlets. This week's new games are:
WiiWare
Evasive Space™
(Yukes Company of America, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone – Mild
Fantasy Violence, 1,000 Wii Points): Launch a one-of-a-kind mission to
rescue the stars. The universe is going dark, and it's up to you, Konki
the Stellar Guardian, to set things right. Dr. Dark Matter and his
roving band of space thieves have stolen many of the Constellation
Stones that make up the heavens. It's time to suit up, power up,
recover the Stones and once again bring light to the night sky. Using
the Wii Remote™ controller's unique pointer capabilities, simply point
and thrust Konki through 20 dangerous time- and collection-based
missions in the harshest of environments. Navigate through narrow,
mazelike astral caves riddled with space worms, steam pipes and mining
drills. Explore vast space stations while avoiding turret fire, mines
and huge crushing gears. Weave through cluttered asteroid fields and
gaseous planetary rings. Evade the hazards, pick up precious items and
ship upgrades, and save the Constellation Stones before the night sky
is lost forever.
Virtual Console
Life Force
(NES, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone – Mild Fantasy Violence, 500
Wii Points): This classic shooter, originally ported to the NES in
August 1988, is a spin-off of the seminal Gradius series. Pilot the Vic
Viper through six stages of intense action, alternating between
horizontally and vertically scrolling environments, and take on wave
after wave of enemies. Destroy particular enemies throughout the game
(which takes place within the body of an enormous alien) to release
power-up capsules and equip your ship with your choice of more powerful
weapons, extra speed and shields. Utilize the power-ups carefully,
though, as a fearsome guardian lurks at the end of each stage and won't
be easily defeated. You can go it alone or bring along a friend to take
on the challenge simultaneously. Do you have what it takes to save your
planet?
OMG Lifeforce! Loved that game.
So whats this special secret game, get anything from the hints.
Nah, no secret game, it apparently is the announcement of games from the Commodore 64 for the VC.
Yipee.
YIPPPPPEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The way GG is with 8-bit games (which I think is crazy), I am with anything pre NES, YUCK.
Same here. My yipee was rather sarcastic, and I hope Raven's was as well.
Oh, and I wish they'd release Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, Intellivision, and Colecovision games on VC someday too. And sell each game for $1 or 100 Wii points.
Yes, I'm serious.
That's not going to happen. You know you will be getting the shittiest C64 games at 500 to 1000 points or else, the microtransaction economy wouldn't be able to sustain itself.
The C64 has been available for the VC in Europe for about year now, and I've seen several Youtube user reviews that had a lot of positive things to say about most of the 18 games that have been released so far.
Also, this is from a recent IGN article regarding the possibility of C64 coming to North American VC soon:
"The selection has been mostly solid there so far -- their Day 1 line-up of scrolling shooter Uridium and fighting game International Karate may not have been explosively exciting, but since then some truly excellent C64 efforts like the platformer Mayhem in Monsterland, puzzle game Boulder Dash and isometric action Last Ninja trilogy has made the cut. It'll be interesting to see which, if any, of these same games Nintendo of America selects to offer to us in the U.S. But it's a safe bet that we'd see all of them eventually"
Based on this info, I'd say that we won't just "be getting the shittiest C64 games."
Don't pay attention to Steel, he is just trolling. Microtransactions on a Nintendo console? They do not have DLC, let alone microtransactions!
Hehehe. Iga always ruins my fun. Fucking IGA.