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NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: DISCOVER NEW WORLDS, HIDDEN WORDS AND THE FIRST FINAL FANTASY

Oct. 5, 2009

Fans of the legendary FINAL FANTASY® series should be especially pleased with this week's downloadable game lineup. Making its Virtual Console™ debut is the original FINAL FANTASY, an NES™ classic that can now be enjoyed on the Wii™ system for the very first time. For hand-held gaming action with a sci-fi twist, this week's new Nintendo DSiWare™ title, Thorium Wars™, lets you take control of an arsenal of vehicles to blast through waves of enemies in a variety of exotic locations. If it's a more down-to-earth experience you're after, check out an engaging new WiiWare™ puzzle game. Consumers should also note that today is the final day of a special promotion: You can receive 1,000 bonus Nintendo DSi Points™ by purchasing a new Nintendo DSi™ game system and connecting to the Nintendo DSi Shop by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Oct. 5, 2009. For full offer details, please visit DSiOffer.Nintendo.com.

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FINAL FANTASY
Original platform: NES
Publisher: SQUARE ENIX
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Mild Fantasy Violence
Price: 500 Wii Points™
Description: The world lies shrouded in darkness. The winds die. The sea rages. The earth decays. But the people believe in a prophecy, patiently awaiting its fulfillment. "When darkness veils the earth, four Warriors of Light shall come...." After a long journey, four young travelers did at last appear, and in the hand of each was clutched a crystal.

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Thorium Wars
Publisher: Big John Games
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Fantasy Violence
Price: 1,000 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: In Thorium Wars, you must stop the Thorions, a super species of Thorium-based machines, from destroying mankind. Blast through waves of Thorions by controlling an arsenal of tanks, skyfighters, hovercrafts, gunboats and starfighters with either the standard or touch-screen controls. In 12 exciting missions, navigate through a variety of combat environments while viewing 360 degrees of the battlefield, fully rendered in 3-D. Toggle between first- and third-person views to destroy the terrifying army of Thorium beasts, from swarms of Redeye Drones to the bone-crushing Manticore Walker. This man-versus-machine battle proves to be the ultimate test for the survival of the fittest.

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WiiWare

Word Searcher
Publisher: Digital Leisure Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Wii Points
Description: You'll need a sharp eye and a quick mind to complete 100 themed word-search puzzles. Word Searcher contains fun words from multiple categories including anatomy, world cities and U.S. presidents. With a huge assortment of subjects to choose from, there's sure to be a puzzle for everyone to enjoy. Help improve your vocabulary, memory and problem-solving skills with these engaging puzzles. Track and try to beat your own play-through times again and again—words are scrambled every time you play.


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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:23:23
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Well that's a pretty uneventful line-up. I guess we should be excited about Final Fantasy, but with so many remakes of that game does anyone even care about the original anymore?
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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:26:39
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Meh.

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:33:38
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nothing of worth.

playing fire emblem: sacred stones right now i'm wishing they would release some of the SNES fire emblems in localised form

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:56:09
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NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: DISCOVER NEW WORLDS, HIDDEN WORDS AND THE FIRST FINAL FANTASY  

Virtual Console

FINAL FANTASY
Original platform: NES
Publisher: SQUARE ENIX
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Mild Fantasy Violence
Price: 500 Wii Points™
Description:The world lies shrouded in darkness. The winds die. The sea rages. Theearth decays. But the people believe in a prophecy, patiently awaitingits fulfillment. "When darkness veils the earth, four Warriors of Lightshall come...." After a long journey, four young travelers did at lastappear, and in the hand of each was clutched a crystal.

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 OH HELL YES!

You can all meh yourself, this is the definitive version

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:32:33
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Meh. Where's Pilotwings 64 and Donkey Kong arcade, Nintendo?!

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:23:08
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That's pretty cool. Final Fantasy is one of the few NES games I don't mind going back to and playing again. Hopefully this means Square-Enix will be bring more of their games to the VC now.

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Cant you get some remade FF NES game on DS or gba?

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gamingeek said:
Cant you get some remade FF NES game on DS or gba?

 

Yeah there's FFV and FFVI on GBA and a couple on the DS that they remade in 3D but I don't really care too much on how the 3D ones look on DS and I'd kind of prefer playing the games on the TV instead anyways so for the prices they charge on VC games I'd rather get those versions instead.

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:05:32
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gamingeek said:
Cant you get some remade FF NES game on DS or gba?

Yeah there's FFV and FFVI on GBA and a couple on the DS that they remade in 3D but I don't really care too much on how the 3D ones look on DS and I'd kind of prefer playing the games on the TV instead anyways so for the prices they charge on VC games I'd rather get those versions instead.

There are remakes for FF 1 & 2 on the GBA called Final Fantasy: Dawn of Soul (the FFII remake features one of the best bonus dungeons they've ever done).  And then there's ports with bonus dungeons for FF IV, V, and VI.  In this case I think FFV was the best one in regards to all the bonus info.

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:45:26

robio said:

Archangel3371 said:



gamingeek said:

Cant you get some remade FF NES game on DS or gba?

Yeah there's FFV and FFVI on GBA and a couple on the DS that they remade in 3D but I don't really care too much on how the 3D ones look on DS and I'd kind of prefer playing the games on the TV instead anyways so for the prices they charge on VC games I'd rather get those versions instead.

There are remakes for FF 1 & 2 on the GBA called Final Fantasy: Dawn of Soul (the FFII remake features one of the best bonus dungeons they've ever done).  And then there's ports with bonus dungeons for FF IV, V, and VI.  In this case I think FFV was the best one in regards to all the bonus info.

 

Is the FF 1 & 2 GBA remakes the same as the PSP version because that one look very cool with the beefed up graphics. Putting in bonus dungeons in the ports was a pretty nice inclusion.

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Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:50:27

Archangel3371 said:

robio said:

Archangel3371 said:



gamingeek said:

Cant you get some remade FF NES game on DS or gba?

Yeah there's FFV and FFVI on GBA and a couple on the DS that they remade in 3D but I don't really care too much on how the 3D ones look on DS and I'd kind of prefer playing the games on the TV instead anyways so for the prices they charge on VC games I'd rather get those versions instead.

There are remakes for FF 1 & 2 on the GBA called Final Fantasy: Dawn of Soul (the FFII remake features one of the best bonus dungeons they've ever done).  And then there's ports with bonus dungeons for FF IV, V, and VI.  In this case I think FFV was the best one in regards to all the bonus info.

Is the FF 1 & 2 GBA remakes the same as the PSP version because that one look very cool with the beefed up graphics. Putting in bonus dungeons in the ports was a pretty nice inclusion.

Yes and the PSP versions even have extra bonus dungeons on top of the ones that were found in the GBA ones.  Not sure how interesting those dungeons are though.  There is a point where they probably get a little tiresome.  But I can vouch for the quality of the ones in the GBA versions.

The original bonus dungeons in FF1 contained bosses from other Final Fantasy games so it was kind of cool to see them in action, and in FF2 the bonus dungeon was a perfect compliment to the story.  It fit the story so well that you'd think it was originally included.  

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