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Four More Games Added to Nintendo Selects

by J.P. Corbran - August 16, 2011, 9:11 am EDT
Total comments: 18 Source: (Press Release)

Super Mario Galaxy and three other Wii games now available for $19.99.

Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Strikers Charged, Punch-Out!! and Super Paper Mario are now part of the Nintendo Selects line of Wii titles retailing for $19.99.

All four games were well received critically, with Nintendo World Report giving Mario Strikers Charged an 8.5, Super Paper Mario a 9, and Super Mario Galaxy and Punch-Out!! 10s. The titles join The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Animal Crossing: City Folk, Mario Super Sluggers and Wii Sports as part of the discount line.

Nintendo Adds More Games to Value-Minded 'Nintendo Selects' Collection for Wii

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Consumers and their families soon will be able to experience even more must-play games for the Wii™ system at an excellent value. Nintendo has announced the addition of four games to the Nintendo® Selects collection, a hot-selling series of fun, family-friendly Wii games offered at a suggested retail price of $19.99 each. Starting Aug. 28, the Nintendo Selects lineup grows to include Super Paper Mario™, Mario Strikers™ Charged, Punch-Out!!™ and Super Mario Galaxy™, which is recognized as one of the most acclaimed Wii games of all time.

Already enjoyed by millions of players around the globe, games in the Nintendo Selects collection offer boundless fun at an enticing price for Wii users of any experience level, whether they want to expand their own game libraries or find affordable, fun-packed gifts for loved ones. The Wii console, which comes bundled with the Mario Kart™ Wii game and the Wii Wheel™ accessory, delivers extraordinary entertainment value for families and is available for a suggested retail price of $149.99.

Three of the four new additions to the Nintendo Selects collection invite players to interact with Nintendo’s iconic Mario™ character in imaginative and entertaining ways: Super Mario Galaxy is an out-of-this-world adventure in which Mario must travel through outer space to rescue Princess Peach™ from the devious Bowser™; Super Paper Mario offers classic Mario RPG action that can be switched from flat 2D worlds to a full open-world perspective; and Mario Strikers Charged finds the Mushroom Kingdom crew storming the soccer field for fast-paced athletic kicks. Also, the fan-favorite Punch-Out!! game delivers motion-controlled boxing thrills with a host of memorable characters. All four games feature multiplayer modes that let friends and family members have fun together.

Previously announced games in the Nintendo Selects collection include The Legend of Zelda™: Twilight Princess, Animal Crossing™: City Folk, Mario™ Super Sluggers and Wii Sports™.

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Talkback

ShyGuyAugust 16, 2011

Cool, Punch-Out!

BlackNMild2k1August 16, 2011

I wonder how WiiSports is selling

BeautifulShyAugust 16, 2011

Only one I am interested in that I don't have is Super Paper Mario. I don't have Strikers Charged though.

oksodaScott Thompson, Associate EditorAugust 16, 2011

Strikers is awesome. I had a lot of fun with that when it came out. Almost like a modern NBA Jam or Blitz. I wonder how it holds up a few years later, now?

EnnerAugust 16, 2011

This is nice. I'll pick up Super Paper Mario. I've heard good and bad about it so I wonder what I'll think of it.

Quote from: oksoda

Strikers is awesome. I had a lot of fun with that when it came out. Almost like a modern NBA Jam or Blitz. I wonder how it holds up a few years later, now?

Maybe the online is usable now?

Kytim89August 16, 2011

When DKCR becomes a Nintendo select then give me a call.

KDR_11kAugust 16, 2011

Punch-Out!! is in bargain bins everywhere here but Galaxy still commands full price I believe.

RasAugust 16, 2011

Yep, I bought Punch-Out at Sears a few months ago for the Select price.  I have all of the new ones already, half of the first wave, and only really need Sluggers.  That would basically leave Animal Crossing, which has never interested me until I think, "If it's the only one I don't have, why not look into it?"  :)

They need to bring the New Play Control line back under this umbrella.  I had a heck of a time finding Jungle Beat since I waited until earlier this year to buy it (good old Sears again).  Really, the only US title I'm missing is Tennis, and I have that on GC.  I'd probably buy it, though.

broodwarsAugust 16, 2011

Well, this is definitely a better batch than the first 4 Selects, though I don't know if I'm going to bother getting any of these.  I never finished Super Paper Mario since I found a lot of the game based on pure tedium being somehow hilarious to the developers.  As for Punch-Out, I finished the first story mode, but just got fed up with the Title Defense mode.  I couldn't care less about Strikers Charged, and I much prefer Galaxy 2 to the first Galaxy.

Kytim89August 16, 2011

Here is my prediction for more Select titles from Nintendo:

Super Mario Galaxy 2
DKCR
SSB Brawl
Wii Sports Resort

SilverQuilavaAugust 16, 2011

well thats great. already got all those except punch out and I never liked that one. why wont Nintendo just put super smash bros brawl on the list? i never got the chance to buy it

TJ SpykeAugust 16, 2011

Quote from: Kytim89

Here is my prediction for more Select titles from Nintendo:
DKCR

I highly doubt it. The game just came out 9 months ago. By the time it would hit this program, the Wii U will have been out for quite some time. Same with Wii Sports Resort, and that game is still selling extremely well and would not need the boost this program would provide (if anything, Nintendo would lose revenue from the deal since I doubt many people who want the game wouldn't buy it at $50).

Luigi DudeAugust 16, 2011

I hope Nintendo eventually adds Sin and Punishment: Star Successor to the list so it has a chance of hopefully getting decent numbers.  It's one of the best games on the system, but the $50 price tag is just insane for the type of game it is.  For someone like me who replayed it several times on the different difficulty's and modes, it was worth the $50 price, but I'm in a very small minority who really love these types of games. 

The average gamer will just play a game like this once on probably the easiest setting, which for this game, will only take them about 5-6 hours to do.  The reason the original on the Virtual Console did well was because it was only $11 and so to a lot of people, a 5-6 hour experience isn't to bad at that price.  I'd imagine if Star Successor became $20, that would finally get a lot of the people that bought the N64 game on the Virtual Console, to buy it's sequel since it'll be at a price they'll be more willing to pay now.

broodwarsAugust 16, 2011

Quote from: Luigi

I hope Nintendo eventually adds Sin and Punishment: Star Successor to the list so it has a chance of hopefully getting decent numbers.  It's one of the best games on the system, but the $50 price tag is just insane for the type of game it is.  For someone like me who replayed it several times on the different difficulty's and modes, it was worth the $50 price, but I'm in a very small minority who really love these types of games.

Yeah, I picked the game up for about $15-$20 off of Amazon, and I think that was about the right price for that game.  It should (and very well may be) a Selects title at some point.  At some point I'm going to go back and actually finish the last level of the game, but it was pretty good and certainly deserves to be a Selects more than something like Mario Sluggers or Strikers Charged.  For that matter, Nintendo could stand to have some very good (and overlooked) Wii 3rd party titles in this line like they do in Japan.

Mop it upAugust 16, 2011

Awesome, I'm glad this turned out to be true. I own the other three, but I've been curious about Punch-Out!!, and would be willing to try it at a lower price. I may yet pick that one up, the only downside is that now it has ugly box art.

Quote from: MegaByte

Quote from: oksoda

Strikers is awesome. I had a lot of fun with that when it came out. Almost like a modern NBA Jam or Blitz. I wonder how it holds up a few years later, now?

Maybe the online is usable now?

Depends on what you mean by usable. It's stable, but everyone who still plays it today uses only the exploits to score. The only way to beat them would be to use them yourself, which is just no fun.

famicomplicatedJames Charlton, Associate Editor (Japan)August 17, 2011

I hope they start including some 3rd party stuff like in Japan, maybe No More Heroes, Zack and Wiki, Madworld etc?

motangAugust 17, 2011

Looks like I will be picking up Punch Out!  ;D

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