New Nintendo downloads this week in America and Europe. The games go live on Thursdays in America at 9AM Pacific time and in Europe at 5PM UK/GMT time.
This week Europe has the special honor to receive the first online Wii Virtual Console multiplayer game! Check out Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers if you’re interested.
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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:
• Ketzal’s Corridors AKA SpeedThru: Potzol’s Puzzle (3DSWare, $7)
Description: Revive Ketzal and restore order to the spirit world in this fast-paced 3D puzzle game. Use speed, skill and lightning-fast reflexes to save the spirit world from destruction in this engaging, action-packed puzzle game. A variety of compelling spatial challenges await you. Rotate and maneuver block-shaped Guardians to explore sacred shrines and climb towers that reach high above the clouds. Face adrenaline-fueled races against the clock, cerebral shape-matching missions and mazes that you’ll need a sharp memory to escape. The evil god Koruptal has brought chaos and destruction to the spirit world, and it’s up to you to put things right.
Three multiplayer modes and 96 replayable, fast-paced single-player stages offer a wealth of puzzle-packed excitement, only available on the Nintendo 3DS system.
• “Underneath the Sycamore” by Death Cab For Cutie (Nintendo Video)
Description: With an old-time comic book feel, this unique 3D music video is set to an incredible song and follows a tragic investigation. (Available April 14 at 9AM PT)
Nintendo DSiWare & 3DS eShop:
• Anne’s Doll Studio: Tokyo Collection (500 DSi Points / $5)
Description: Dress-up a stylish doll, selecting from a wide range of dresses and accessories from Tokyo. Use the stylus to choose hair styles, hair accessories, dresses, jackets and shoes, mixing and matching items to create hundreds of beautiful outfit combinations. Once your doll is complete you can choose from various backgrounds and boarder designs to create a stunning picture with your doll center stage. Alternatively set your Tokyo doll against a background of your choice by taking your own picture using the built-in camera of your Nintendo DSi or Nintendo 3DS system. You can further decorate and your doll by adding stars and other pretty effects or by drawing freehand. Your completed doll pictures can be saved to the SD Card (sold separately) and traded with friends, used on social networks as your avatar picture or printed out using a computer.
European Nintendo Downloads
Nintendo WiiWare:
• Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers with added Online Multiplayer! (Wii Virtual Console / Sega Mega Drive, 800 Wii Points)
Description: Choose from 16 different fighters from around the including four new contenders to really add an extra punch; British special forces agent Cammy, Mexican warrior T. Hawk, Hong Kong action star Fei-Long and Jamaican kickboxer Dee Jay.
Each of them possesses a lethal combination of martial arts skills that they believe can destroy Bison. But can they survive the original Street Fighters and their abilities? Only the true Street Fighters among you will be able to find out! Includes hot new modes including Group Battle, Tournament Battle and the Time Challenge.
Important Feature: Taking you back to the golden age of arcade-style head-to-head fighting, you can battle in elimination tournaments, local fights and against other challengers in heated online battles, the first time a Virtual Console title on Wii supports Online Multiplayer!
Nintendo 3DS eShop:
• The Legend of Zelda (3DS Virtual Console / NES, £4.50 / €5)
Description: The epic series – The Legend of Zelda – began here, with the heroic Link on a hazardous journey through the fantastic world of Hyrule. Using your sword, your shield and your wits, retrieve the eight fragments of the Triforce and save Princess Zelda.
This groundbreaking game introduced innovative ideas that are still present in Zelda games more than 25 years later. Not only is Link’s original adventure action-packed, it also features puzzling dungeons to explore and myriad secrets to discover.
Nintendo DSiWare & 3DS eShop:
• I Must Run! (200 DSi Points / £1.80 / €2)
Description: I Must Run! is a skill-based action running game. Jump across gaps between prison buildings, run through an underground station, and test your reflexes in a deadly dash over building site cranes. Reach the city centre and save your wife. Remember, you have only 24 hours. Let’s hope your fitness levels can cope, because you must run!
Once you have completed story mode, try to achieve the highest score in the never-ending run in six available levels: Prison, Underground, Sewers, Building Site, Suburbs and Rooftops.
• Crystal Caverns of Amon-Ra (500 DSi Points / £4.50 / €5)
Description: Capture the riches of the Crystal Caverns of Amon-Ra by capturing the crystal spheres before they reach the Pit of Fire. Featuring three different game modes, 10 diverse worlds and 14 special power-ups, this title offers the perfect combination of action and puzzle fun.
Future Downloadable 3DS eShop Games & Software:
Upcoming Releases In April:
• Nintendo 3DS Download Software – 3D Solitaire (Zen Studios) April 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console – Dr Mario (Nintendo America, Game Boy) April 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console – Kid Icarus Of Myths and Monsters (Nintendo America, Game Boy) April 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Download Software – 3D Classics: Kid Icarus (Nintendo America, 3DSWare) April 2012
• Wii Virtual Console – Metal Slug 3 (D4 Entertainment, NEO-GEO) April 2012
• WiiWare – La-Mulana (Nicalis) April 2012
• Nintendo DSiWare – Cave Story (Nicalis Europe) April 2012
Upcoming Releases In 2012:
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console – Toki Tori (Two Tribes, Game Boy Color) Q2 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Download Software – Art of Balance TOUCH! (Shin’en Multimedia) Q2 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Download Software – Colors! 3D (Collecting Smiles) Q2 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Download Software – Mutant Mudds (Renegade Kid) Q2 2012 [in Europe]
• Nintendo 3DS Download Software – Picross e (Jupiter) Q2 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Download Software – Marvel Pinball 3D (Zen Studios) Q2 2012
• Nintendo DSiWare – Amoebattle (Intrinsic Games) Q2 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console – Wario Land II (Nintendo, Game Boy Color) 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console – Kirby’s Dream Land 2 (Nintendo, Game Boy) 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console – Sonic Labyrinth (SEGA, Game Gear) 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console – Sonic Blast (SEGA, Game Gear) 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console – Sonic Drift 2 (SEGA, Game Gear) 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console – Columns (SEGA, Game Gear) 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Download Software – Bit Boy!! ARCADE (Bplus, 3DSWare) 2012
• Nintendo 3DS Download Software – Unchained Blades (XSEED America, 3DSWare) 2012
• Wii Virtual Console – Vectorman 2 (SEGA Australia, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) 2012