Articles in WiiWare
Read-a-long with Nintendo Power #234 (November 2008)
Issue #234 introduces an unexpected subscriber benefit: alternate covers that strip away all that obnoxious article hype text. That makes this GTA: Chinatown Wars issue the first Nintendo Power cover in years to not include …
Laugh or cry, but Mega Man 9 is live
Whether or not you should pick up Mega Man 9 depends on one simple question: When you are flung to your doom by a cunningly-placed brick popping out of the wall, do you laugh at …
Wii Shop Channel: Mega Man 9 and a record three more
Perhaps it’s because Mega Man 9 can withstand the competition, perhaps it’s because Nintendo’s amassing a backlog of WiiWare titles to publish, perhaps it’s just coincidence, but for whatever reason, Nintendo’s placed four titles up …
Mega Man 9 is coming tomorrow, so look at screenshots
Capcom’s announced release dates for all three versions of Mega Man 9. It hits WiiWare first tomorrow, then later this week on the other two platforms. Along with this announcement comes a pile of new …
Wii Shop Channel: Super Mario RPG, etc, and etc
With Square-Enix’s aversion to releasing games on Virtual Console, one thing I didn’t really expect was the SNES game Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Even once the game appeared in Europe and …
Wii Shop Channel: Helix, Ys Book I & II, and Samurai Shodown 2
The classic RPG series Ys makes a dramatic appearance on the Virtual Console today with Ys Book I & II for TurboGrafx-16 now available for 800 Wii Points. Also appearing is a new WiiWare rhythm …
Read-a-long with Nintendo Power #233 (October 2008)
The first first-party cover feature in six months heralds an excellent issue, full of some great details, reveals and surprises. Read-a-long!
Issue #233, October 2008
featured games: Wario Land: Shake It!, Time Hollow, House of the Dead: …
Meet the new boss: somewhat like the old boss!
Robot Masters are the creamy center of every great Mega Man game, and Capcom just dropped us a line to let us know that they’ve got some information on three of these bosses as they …
Read-a-long with Nintendo Power #232 (September 2008)
Last issue’s sword-based tease wasn’t Kingdom Hearts, Zelda or even Fire Emblem… it was Sonic? NP broke the news: another Wii-exclusive Sonic game is coming, a second installment in the suddenly-a-sub-franchise Sonic Storybook series. Which …
Sonic returns to Wii Shop Channel — the rare one, not the good one
Recently I was put in charge of auctioning off a lot of about two dozen Sega Master System games. I had never seen a Master System game before, but there really wasn’t much to see. …
Mega Man on Virtual Console tomorrow, but maybe not the best deal
Hey everyone, you know how Mega Man is one of my guilty pleasures. Well, not so guilty, as I’m not the only Mega Fan out there, I suppose. Anyway, Capcom says Mega Man‘s coming to …
Time to renew the call for a Sega channel on Wii
I’ve made my desire for a Sega Channel on Wii, that is to say a channel that functions as a Saturn and Dreamcast emulator, in the past. It wouldn’t take a lot of work for …
Mega Man 9, as proof of concept, would bring more retro revivals
The 8-bit styled Mega Man 9 could be a sign of things to come. That is, of course, dependent upon sales. The hardest of the core have been hassling Castlevania master Koji Igarashi for years …
Mega Man 9 surprises as a very retro WiiWare title
Here’s something Wii-owning Megafans like myself are sure to love: Capcom has now made Mega Man 9 official, and has revealed that one platform it will appear on is the one and only WiiWare. Nintendo’s …
Promised long ago, Commodore 64 functionality to arrive on Virtual Console.
The Commodore 64 was something of a phenomenon in the US, particularly in the early to mid-1980s. I did a lot of gaming on the Commodore myself in fact, and some of it was actually …
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