New Nintendo downloads this week in America and Europe. The games go live at 9AM Pacific time on Thursdays.
Nintendo has now added new/classic games to the Wii Shop Channel, Nintendo DSi Shop and Nintendo 3DS eShop. Users with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. While the Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service, where virtual wallets are added to using a credit card or by purchasing a Nintendo 3DS Prepaid Card at a retail store and entering the code from the card. A Nintendo Points Card can be purchased at retail locations or Amazon.com.
American Nintendo Downloads
Nintendo 3DS eShop:
• Zen Pinball 3D ($6.99)
Description: Already a big hit in Europe, Zen Pinball for Nintendo 3DS brings an incredible stereoscopic 3D experience to the acclaimed video game pinball series for the first time ever. Featuring four beautifully crafted, original tables, Zen Pinball features the most advanced ball physics in a video pinball game to date, online leader boards ranking you against other players, in-game friend challenges, interactive 3D models, and more!
Nintendo DSiWare & 3DS eShop:
• Hip Hop King: Rytmik Edition (800 DSi Points / $7.99)
Description: Hip Hop King is an application for creating rhythmical and melodic themes and for composing whole songs. Its user interface blends the fast and well-arranged interface of classic drum machines with flexible pattern interface of popular trackers and with modern sound library. It contains more than 170 carefully selected sound samples of drums, percussions, bass, melodic instruments and gramophone scratches.
• 101 Pinball World (500 DSi Points / $4.99)
Description: Get ready for fast-paced pinball action with a twist! Complete special objectives to earn fun bonuses as you shoot your ball through pipes, up ramps and around mind-blowing obstacles. Choose from 2 game modes, Quick Play and Random, and blast through over 100 fun tables on 4 exciting worlds filled with eye-popping details. Be a pinball wiz in Wizard World, go on a galactic adventure in Alien Spaceship, enjoy a spooky trip through Halloween and become a buccaneer in Pirate’s Bay. Rack up enough points to top the High Scores and you’ll be the pinball champ.
Nintendo WiiWare:
• Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math: The Case of the Crumbling Cathedral (600 Wii Points)
Description: Carmen Sandiego is back and only you can foil her V.I.L.E plans. Travel the globe, solve brain-twisting math puzzles, and catch the villain behind the Crumbling Cathedral. Crack the case of the Crumbling Cathedral in single-player Story Mode. Perfect your math skills in single-player Practice Mode. Challenge your friends and family to solve math puzzles against the clock in Multiplayer Mode. In Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math, you practice your math skills and use them to fight crime. Ideal for grades 4–5, math topics include arithmetic, logic puzzles, fractions and much more!
European Nintendo Downloads
Nintendo DSiWare & 3DS eShop:
• Doodle Fit (500 DSi Points / £4.50 / €5)
• Make Up & Style (500 DSi Points / £4.50 / €5)
Nintendo WiiWare:
• Bobby Carrot Forever (800 Wii Points)
Future Downloadable 3DS eShop Games & Software:
- January 19, 2012: 40-in-1 Explosive Megamix (Nordcurrent, DSiWare)
- January 2012: Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword (Nintendo, 3DSWare)
- Early 2012: 3D Classics: Kid Icarus (Nintendo, 3DSWare)
- Q1 2012: Dillon’s Rolling Western (Nintendo, 3DS)
- 2012: Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (Nintendo, 3DS Game Boy Virtual Console)
- 2012: Mutant Mudds (Renegade Kid, 3DS)