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This Week in Nintendo Downloads

by Francesca DiMola - April 27, 2009, 3:16 pm EDT
Total comments: 5 Source: Press Release

This week brings about two new DSiWare games, a Cocoto WiiWare game, and a Super Nintendo game for the Virtual Console.

This week in Nintendo Downloads, Nintendo again releases two new titles for DSiWare, while Neko Entertainment brings us Cocoto Platform Jumper to WiiWare, and the SNES game Nobunaga's Ambition finds its way onto the Virtual Console.

Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics is a compilation of familiar card games, including Blackjack and Five Card Draw as well as titles based on speed such as Last Card and President. Up to eight players can battle head-to-head through DS Download Play. Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics is rated T for Teen by the ESRB and is available now for download through the DSi Ware shop for 500 DSi points ($5).

Paper Airplane Chase requires players to navigate a paper airplane through a windy path while avoiding any obstacles in the plane's path. There is an Endless mode, multiple Time Attack levels, and a two player mode where players can race one another using a single DSi. Paper Airplane Chase is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and is available now through the DSi download store for 200 DSi points ($2).

Cocoto Platform Jumper, a former PAL exclusive by Neko Entertainment, follows the tale of Cocoto, a mysterious creature who protects a caludron that is the source of power in his land. Zaron, the lightning God, wishes to steal the power for himself and kidnaps Cocoto's friends, leading Cocoto onto his platforming adventure. Cocoto Platformer Jumper is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and is available through Wii Ware for 700 Wii points ($7).

Nobunaga's Ambition, developed by Koei, is a turn-based strategy game that is set in feudal Japan. The main goal is to reunite Japan, and players can choose to do so in a diplomatic fashion or by less conventional methods. Nobunaga's Ambition is rated E for Everyone and is available now through the Wii Shop Channel for 800 Wii points ($8).

NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: POKER, PLANES AND PLATFORM GAMES FUEL PLAYERS' AMBITION

April 27, 2009

The table is set for card-flipping fun with this week's release of Clubhouse Games™ Express: Card Classics on Nintendo DSiWare™, while the new Paper Airplane Chase™ packs portable challenges for fans of airborne action. WiiWare™ users will find Cocoto Platform Jumper, a wildly imaginative new platformer populated by mysterious creatures. Last but not least, Nobunaga's Ambition, a classic strategy game from the Super NES™ system era, finds its way to the Virtual Console™.

As an added bonus to help celebrate the recent launch of the new Nintendo DSi™ system, Club Nintendo members now will be able to earn coins for registering, linking and providing feedback about their Nintendo DSi systems. They also will be able to earn coins for providing feedback about Nintendo DSiWare titles, which will be automatically registered on their Club Nintendo account when they link their Nintendo DSi Shop to their Club Nintendo account.

Nintendo DSiWare

Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics (Nintendo, 1-8 players, Rated T for Teen - Simulated Gambling, 500 Nintendo DSi Points™): Clubhouse Games comes to Nintendo DSiWare with a collection of five fun card games in Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics. Play familiar favorites like Blackjack and Five Card Draw, or test your ability in the fast-paced Last Card, Last Card Plus and President. DS Download Play allows players to host as many as seven friends.

Paper Airplane Chase™ (Nintendo, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 200 Nintendo DSi Points): In Paper Airplane Chase, glide your virtual paper plane through an increasingly tricky slalom course. Take it slow in Endless mode or zip through several Time Attack courses. The two-player Race mode allows friends to race each other using a single Nintendo DSi system.

WiiWare

Cocoto Platform Jumper (Neko Entertainment, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone - Mild Cartoon Violence, 700 Wii Points™): A long time ago in a faraway land, strange little creatures lived in the depths of Abyss. Cocoto, his little devil friends and the mysterious Fairy protect the secret of the magma — the source of their power — in a magic cauldron. Meanwhile, Zaron, the god of lightning who lusts after this force, is up to something. He can count on the rulers of the other kingdoms that Cocoto must cross. The tragic kidnapping of Shiny, Baggy and Neuro has left Cocoto alone to watch over the cauldron. Refusing to leave his friends, he will set out to find them with Fairy.

Virtual Console

Nobunaga's Ambition (Super NES, 1-8 players, Rated E for Everyone - Violent References, 800 Wii Points): Nobunaga's Ambition is a game set in Japan's Warring States period, a turbulent age when feudal warlords battled for control of the country. As the ruler of a fief, the player chooses his or her own path to conquest: Will you wage war on your neighbors or rely on diplomacy? Use economic sanctions or send ninja assassins? Use all of your ingenuity and resources to unite Japan under your banner.

Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii™ Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access 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. A Nintendo Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.

Remember that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit Wii.com or NintendoDSi.com.

Talkback

NWR_pap64Pedro Hernandez, Contributing WriterApril 27, 2009

Damn, no Adventure Island... :(

AVApril 27, 2009

Quote from: pap64

Damn, no Adventure Island... :(

or Zelda majora's Mask or anything on Virtual Console arcade.

With Super Punch-Out the only exception Nintendo has totally epically failed with Virtual Console/ Wiiware after SD card solution. Why can't 5 games be released every week ? If people want to download them they can now because of SD card.

It makes no sense

TJ SpykeApril 27, 2009

I don't think size is the issue, I think they want to make sure they never have a week with no Virtual Console games. Of coarse, Europe has about 19 games we don't yet (mostly Commodore 64 games) and Japan has 443 freaking games while we have 297. Japan almost always get at least 2 per week. We have the same 4 Virtual Console Arcade games that were released during GDC while Japan is up to 11. What the hell Nintendo, get off your lazy asses and start giving us some of those games even if you have to charge 100 or 200 extra points to translate. Give us some of those MSX games too, the MSX was released here (although it was only brief since it bombed here).

Sorry for the tangent. It brings up something else i've been thinking about. It's been confirmed that WiiWare games have to sell a minimum before the developers get any money. What about Virtual Console games? Does anyone here have a contact with a company that has released a game on the Virtual Console and can let us know if they have a similar minimum?

If there were a minimum sales point for VC games I don't think they'd have released this week's game.

KDR_11kApril 28, 2009

I think I've seen a preview for a Nobunaga's Ambition game on an HD console or the PSP or something on some website yesterday...

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