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Title: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on February 26, 2009, 09:38:32 AM
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NINTENDO'S VIDEO GAME LINEUP DEMONSTRATES GAMING DIVERSITY
New Games Announced for Nintendo Systems
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 26, 2009 – While everyone is still buzzing about the upcoming April 5 launch of the Nintendo DSi™ system, video game fans will have plenty of great games and experiences to keep them busy. Nintendo has an extensive, diverse library of about 120 games on the way for both the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ systems. Upcoming Nintendo-published video games for Wii include:
Excitebots™: Trick Racing has elements that make it one of the more unique racing games on the market. It launches April 20 and lets everyone in the family use the Wii Wheel™ accessory in unique and changing environments, play fun minigames and perform crazy tricks in a game that builds on the Excitebike™ and Excite Truck™ franchises.
Donkey Kong® Jungle Beat™, originally made for the Nintendo GameCube™ system, launches May 4 with newly added motion controls. It's the latest in Nintendo's New Play Control! series of games.
Punch-Out!!™ launches May 18 and brings back all of the fun of the beloved, classic NES® game that thrilled players in the early 1990s. Boxers battle as iconic hero Little Mac as they fight their way through a cast of new and familiar boxing opponents on their quest to win the coveted WVBA (World Video Boxing Association) Championship Belt.
Nintendo's downloadable WiiWare service continues to be a showcase for new games, new concepts and new ideas. A selection of upcoming titles includes:
• BIT.TRIP BEAT, developed by Gaijin Games and published by Aksys Games: BIT.TRIP BEAT is what you get when you mix classic video gaming with modern gaming sensibilities. What may seem like a simple "paddle" game turns into a psychedelic trip down memory lane which has you hitting "beats" in rhythm to Chiptune style music. While the game can be difficult, if you crank up the tunes and get in the zone, you'll have a great time. Performing perfectly isn't required to experience all the game's content, but the extra challenge will keep score-hunters coming back in search of each level's elusive "PERFECT" score.
• Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, developed and published by Semnat Studios LLC: Fight your way through 13 diverse locations on your own or with up to three friends in this frenetic and stylish side-scrolling action game. Play as Eduardo and his fellow toaster buddies as you fire an assortment of pastries at all kinds of dastardly food products. Hop onto laser-mounted scooters and fly across the screen in rocket packs, and learn to cooperate with your teammates or simply annoy each other in an awesomely fun way by throwing each other around the screen. The choice is up to you.
• Night Game, developed and published by Nicalis: Exclusively for WiiWare, Night Game (working title) is part action game and part puzzler. It invites players into a beautifully atmospheric world, where they must use real physics to maneuver a mysterious, glowing sphere through vastly different locales. Night Game pushes the boundaries of design with its unique art style, and professionally produced music score. This title is a 2009 Independent Games Festival Seumas McNally Award nominee and from the same developers responsible for Cave Story on Wii.
• Swords & Soldiers, developed and published by Ronimo Games: Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling real-time strategy game, in which three distinct factions battle for the powers of the gods. The goal is to destroy the enemies' castle on the other end of the level, while protecting your own. This can be done by training powerful units or casting devastating spells. The game will feature a single-player campaign and a competitive split-screen multiplayer mode as well as several other game modes.
Great titles are also on the way for the portable Nintendo DS system. Some Nintendo-published video games for Nintendo DS include:
Rhythm Heaven™ is an infectious video game that has been a huge hit in Japan. Players tap and slide the stylus on the touch screen in time to the beat. This fun, stylized game launches April 5.
A new entry in the Personal Trainer series is Personal Trainer™: Walking, which launches May 25. Personal Trainer: Walking tracks users' progress and makes going for a walk a little more fun. It comes with two pedometers that users can wirelessly connect to their Nintendo DS system when they return home.
In The Legendary Starfy™ game, which launches June 8, players dive into a spectacular undersea adventure with Starfy, the legendary hero of Pufftop. Players swoop into enemies like a shooting star, glide over bottomless chasms and transform into powerful creatures to help a mysterious, bunny-eared visitor find his lost memory.
In recent weeks, multiple third-party publishers have announced plans to boost their support of Nintendo systems. Between now and June, Nintendo fans will enjoy games like: The Conduit™, a first-person shooter from Sega that pits players against a terrifying group of alien invaders intent on taking over a futuristic Washington, D.C.; EA SPORTS Active™, a Wii exclusive from Electronic Arts that offers players fun, easy-to-learn exercises and activities that users can do with family and friends; and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 10, the newest iteration of the popular golf game from Electronic Arts that lets players hit the links to prove their driving and putting prowess.
Below is a partial list of upcoming games for Wii and Nintendo DS. Note that game titles and launch dates are subject to change.
Wii
2K Sports Major League Baseball® 2K9 - March 3 Don King Boxing - March 31
Activision X-Men Origins: Wolverine - May Ice Age 3 - June 30 Transformers™: Revenge of the Fallen - June
Aksys Games Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus - May 12
Atari Ready 2 Rumble Revolution - March 17 Backyard Baseball 10 - March 31
Capcom Entertainment Inc. MotoGP™ - Spring
Codemasters Inc Overlord Dark Legend - Summer
Conspiracy Games Real Heroes: Firefighter - April
Deep Silver, Inc. Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity - April Fritz Chess - May
Disney Interactive Studios Hannah Montana The Movie - April
Electronic Arts TRIVIAL PURSUIT™ - March MySims™ Party - March EA SPORTS Active™ - May 19 Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 10 - June BOOM BLOX™ Bash Party - Spring MySims™ Racing - Summer Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince™ - Summer G.I. JOE™ The Rise of Cobra - Summer EA SPORTS Tennis (working title) - Summer
Hudson Entertainment Help Wanted - Summer
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. DanceDanceRevolution® Disney Grooves - April 2 Yu-Gi-Oh! ™ 5D's Wheelie Breakers - May 19
LucasArts Indiana Jones® and the Staff of Kings™ - Late Spring
NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc Klonoa® - Q2
Nintendo New Play Control! Pikmin™ - March 9 New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis™ - March 9 Excitebots: Trick Racing - April 20 New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat - May 4 Punch-Out!! - May 18
SEGA of America Virtua Tennis™ 2009 - May The Conduit™ - June Let's Tap™ - June
Southpeak Interactive Roogoo Twisted Towers™ - April 7 Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball™ - April 21
Zoo Games, Inc. M&M's Beach Party - March 10 Puzzle Kingdoms - March 31 Garfield Gets Real - April 7 Pennzoil's Build-N-Race: "Speed Demons" - April 14 Jelly Belly Ballistic Beans - April 21 Smiley World Island Challenge - April 28 Garfield's Pet Force - June 9
Nintendo DS
2K Sports MLB® 2K9 Fantasy All-Stars - March 3 Don King Boxing - March 31
Activision X-Men Origins: Wolverine - May Ice Age 3 - June 30 Transformers™: Revenge of the Fallen - June
Activision/RedOctane Guitar Hero® On Tour: Modern Hits - June
Aksys Games Jake Hunter Detective Chronicles: Memories of the Past - May 26 Rockin' Pretty - June 23
Aspyr Media, Inc. Treasure World™ - June
Atari Backyard Baseball '10 - March 31 My Horse and Me Riding For Gold - March 31
Atlus U.S.A., Inc. TrackMania® DS - March 17 Tokyo Beat Down™ - March 31 The Dark Spire™ - April 14 Dokapon Journey™ - April 14 Steal Princess™ - April 21 101 in 1 Explosive Megamix - April 21 Super Robot Taisen® OG Saga:Endless Frontier™ - April 28 Knights in the Nightmare™ - June 2 Shin Megami Tensei®: Devil Survivor™ - June 23
Capcom Mega Man Starforce 3 Black Ace - June Mega Man Starforce 3 Red Joker - June
Codemasters Inc Overlord Minions - Summer
Deep Silver, Inc. Pet Vet: Down Under - March Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity - April Elite Forces: Unit 77 - April DJ Star - May Fritz Chess - May The Humans - May Horoscope DS - May
Disney Interactive Studios Hannah Montana The Movie - April
DreamCatcher Dreamer: Shop Owner - April 21 Dreamer: Babysitter - April 21 Dreamer: Teacher - April 21 Prank'd - May 19
Electronic Arts Zubo™ - March 10 Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure™ - March 17 MySims™ Party - March SCRABBLE™ - March LITTLEST PET SHOP Spring™ - March MySims™ Racing - Summer Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince™ - Summer
Hudson Entertainment Miami Law - Summer
KOEI Monster Racers™ - June
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times™ - May 5 Yu-Gi-Oh!™ 5D's Stardust Accelerators World Championship 2009 - May 19
LucasArts Indiana Jones® and the Staff of Kings™ - Late Spring
Majesco Entertainment Puffins: Island Adventure - April 14 Powerbike - April 28 Drama Queens - May Marker Man Adventures - May Hot 'n' Cold - May Dawn of Heroes - June
MumboJumbo Crazy Chicken Star Karts - March 31 Crazy Chicken Atlantis Quest - April 28 Crazy Chicken The Pharaoh's Treasure - June 2 7 Wonders II - June 30
Nintendo Rhythm Heaven - April 5 Personal Trainer: Walking - May 25 The Legendary Starfy - June 8
PopCap Games, Inc. Peggle™ Dual Shot - March 3
Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - March 17
Southpeak Interactive Roogoo Attack™ - April 7
THQ Desktop Tower Defense - April 29
Ubisoft Imagine® Makeup Artist - May 5 Imagine® Music Fest - May 5 Imagine® Boutique Owner - May 26 My Healthy Cooking Coach - June 2 Petz® Fashion: Dogz and Catz - June 9 Jake Power Soccer Club - June 16
Valcon Games History Channel: Great Empires: Rome - March 17
Zoo Games, Inc. Yamaha Supercross - March 10 Hands On!: Tangrams - March 24 Puzzle Kingdoms - March 31 Garfield Gets Real - April 7 Jelly Belly Ballistic Beans - April 21 Smiley World Island Challenge - April 28 Garfield's Pet Force - June 9
So now where's the bitching that Wii has no games now and that Nintendo doesn't make games anymore?
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfi, punch out!!
Post by: Dasmos on February 26, 2009, 10:01:48 AM
Hmm...Excitebot sounds interesting.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfi, punch out!!
Post by: Plugabugz on February 26, 2009, 10:10:45 AM
Nintendo just buy monster games and be done with it.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfi, punch out!!
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on February 26, 2009, 10:30:52 AM
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfi, punch out!!
Post by: Spinnzilla on February 26, 2009, 10:48:58 AM
That box art is just...AWESOME.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfi, punch out!!
Post by: decoyman on February 26, 2009, 10:52:01 AM
Dude, Glass Joe died his hair.
Oh, and Flames... seriously, even with the promise of "awesome," that's just... tl;dr.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfi, punch out!!
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on February 26, 2009, 10:57:43 AM
Also why the hell isn't more people excited about Starfy(it's Staffy in Japan)!!!! It's a platformer and one of the only games that TOSE gets credit for since Nintendo and TOSE both own copyrights for it.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Stogi on February 26, 2009, 11:29:08 AM
There's alot of games to be bought this half year.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Kairon on February 26, 2009, 11:31:18 AM
Why did Nintendo totally avoid January and February this year for Wii first party releases?
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: BeautifulShy on February 26, 2009, 11:35:53 AM
Those release dates are full of WIN!
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Kairon on February 26, 2009, 11:46:07 AM
Night Game: is this the first we've heard of this WiiWare title?
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: BeautifulShy on February 26, 2009, 12:02:11 PM
Yeah it is Kai.
On a somewhat related note.Today I learned that my Wii doesn't want to read disks. So I'm not really going to play anything anytime soon.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Spinnzilla on February 26, 2009, 12:07:51 PM
you called Nintendo yet, Maxi?
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: BeautifulShy on February 26, 2009, 12:15:13 PM
Not yet. I was going though the troubleshoting page.See if that would help.No luck so far.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Ghisy on February 26, 2009, 12:30:53 PM
Also why the hell isn't more people excited about Starfy(it's Staffy in Japan)!!!! It's a platformer and one of the only games that TOSE gets credit for since Nintendo and TOSE both own copyrights for it.
Agreed! It's nice to know it's coming out in English. I hope they will just translate the text part though.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: BeautifulShy on February 26, 2009, 12:37:11 PM
I'm going to give my Wii a few days to rest.Then I'll try again. If it doesn't work I'll call Nintendo.If I have to send it in at least this time I have something to occupy myself with.Chrono Trigger DS.Be back in a few days.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on February 26, 2009, 01:13:28 PM
Starfy is a game I never thought would make it out here. I'm so getting it!
Also I don't mind the Punch-Out Box art, it is the kind of Box Art that seems to sell on Wii!
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: KDR_11k on February 26, 2009, 02:34:54 PM
MOAR EXCITE!
I already got Starfy but it's nice to see that it's FINALLY coming to the west. I wonder if it's Starfy 4 (the only DS one AFAIK) or if theyve turned Starfy 1 into a DS game...
No news on Dynamic Slash makes me sad though...
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on February 26, 2009, 02:43:13 PM
"No news on Dynamic Slash makes me sad though..."
It must not be one of those major games GP described. We'll hear about it a week before launch.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Stogi on February 26, 2009, 02:53:26 PM
I wonder what excitebots even means?
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on February 26, 2009, 03:15:03 PM
I'm sure it's a mistranslation of Excitebutts, which is played sitting on the Balance Board.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: NWR_pap64 on February 26, 2009, 05:43:59 PM
See? I told you Punch-Out Wii would feature new characters, so stop complaining about it being a remake! :p
And Starfy? ABOUT F*CKING TIME NINTENDO! I am so getting that because I've been waiting for it since the first game hit the GBA. It just seemed like the kind of game that Nintendo would love to bring over. Why it took them so long to localize it is beyond me.
Excite Bots? Great to hear about a new racing IP.
I wonder if we'll see them soon.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: blackfootsteps on February 26, 2009, 06:11:59 PM
Isn't Excite Bots going to be pretty much Excite Truck 2 with different vehicles and better multiplayer? (At least I hope that's what it is!)
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on February 26, 2009, 06:30:31 PM
Except these vehicles will have be assembled and driven by android bears. Exciting.
get it?
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: BeautifulShy on February 26, 2009, 07:08:01 PM
Alright I checked my games and all of my Wii games don't work but all of my GC games do work.So I'm going to have to send in my Wii.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Stogi on February 26, 2009, 07:50:09 PM
Isn't Excite Bots going to be pretty much Excite Truck 2 with different vehicles and better multiplayer? (At least I hope that's what it is!)
It's a combination of Excitetruck and Excitebike essentially so I suppose it's a sequel in the sense. I hope there's Wi-Fi this time and I wonder if they retained the ability to put MP3 AACs and make a custom soundtrack.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: KnowsNothing on February 26, 2009, 08:11:26 PM
MORE EXCITE ON APRIL 20.
DO WANT.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: BeautifulShy on February 26, 2009, 08:27:22 PM
May 18th!Punch out!!
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: NovaQ on February 26, 2009, 09:32:32 PM
It's nice to finally get a little tiny bit of info on Punch Out!!
Should I be concerned about the lack of Muramasa?
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on February 26, 2009, 09:53:32 PM
In EUROPE, red star is a European publisher, it will probably be late summer or fall in North America.
Title: Re: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!
Post by: Luigi Dude on February 27, 2009, 04:59:50 PM
Once again when I'm away from a computer for a day Nintendo announces something.
Anyway, it's nice to see Punch-Out has a release date, really locking forward to seeing how it turns out. Of course I wonder why Nintendo hasn't released any screens of Excitebots yet. I mean, usually when Nintendo announces a new game, they at least show screen shots right away. To announce something new that will be out shortly and not show something with the announcement just seems like they either just forgot to sent out screens or NOA is trying to troll the internets.
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Why it took them so long to localize it is beyond me.
Actually it's quite obvious why they're finally localizing the series, the latest Starfy game bombed last summer in Japan. It also doesn't help that the last one before that, while not a bomb, failed to match the success of the GBA Starfy games. What makes this even worse is the fact that the DS is selling much better then the GBA did, and that ever other Nintendo series in Japan has had better sales on the DS then they did on the GBA except Starfy.
In other words, the reason Nintendo is finally bringing the series over is because it's dieing in Japan, and Nintendo probably wants to see if maybe the American market can revitalize it. This is why I imagine this announcement has more to do with NCL forcing NOA to localize the game in order to have a reason to keep one of their franchises alive, then NOA suddenly having a change of heart.
Considering how they've released 5 Starfy games in only 6 years, that shows how it's a rather important series to NCL. One that they probably want to keep around for a few more years as well.
