One of the more unique DS "games" is getting a revival through DSiWare. Nintendo announced today a downloadable version of Electroplankton, to hit the Japanese DSi Ware service starting next week.
Nintendo brings Super Mario Kart to the Virtual Console today, the classic SNES racing game that spawned many Mario racers, for 800 Wii Points ($8). A NES classic is also available today on the Virtual Console with A Boy and His Blob. Get ready for another BIT.TRIP, with BIT.TRIP VOID coming to WiiWare today. Plenty of Electroplankton mini-games are coming to DSiWare too. See the new WiiWare, Virtual Console and DSiWare games coming out today, starting at 9am PST, with all the details from Nintendo.
Super Mario Kart, one of the very, very few Nintendo games I could waste hours of my life playing. Such fun games.
I can remember setting a record for myself on Rainbow Road in the original Mario Kart for SNES. I couldn't top it, neither could anyone else I knew at the time. I remember setting it with Mario.
Nintendo has more than a few addicting games, on their 5+ systems... and mario was a scrub mid-tier character, it's all about TOAD!
My virus protection kicked in when I tried to hit the link, so dunno if that site is ok to visit?
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Certain classics fare better in updates. I have no desire to play 16 bit Mario Kart at this point. I love Retro, but some franchises benefit from their progress.
This is more like the stuff we need. Even if it is rehashed from an existing game it's a good way to revive unique stuff like this and with 3 packs worth 200 points it sounds like good value too.
A better strategy though is to get all the regions on roughly equal footage because whilst Japan has got a lot of quality, everywhere else is lacking but could do with having their releases merged as there's already quite a bit of quality on there.(Asphalt 4, PiCOPiCT, MFC, Mario vs DK, etc.)
The apps need to improve as well, whilst I bought the Mario one just to have a calc handy it would be better to get more creative apps like Flipnote Studio to us already. I also want to hear what Nnooo's App is going to be.
It's a good little hard to find gem and well worth the price, where I live I saw it going for $50 once. This could've been an awesome music app but for some odd reason the developers decided to leave out the ability to save what your songs.
I keep seeing this used at Gamestop for like $50....