They all f should officially announce these removals at least a week before they put those games down! I hate this stupid policy. They don't give us gamers even a chance!
I wrote 3 emails to Nintendo of Europe and 2 emails to HUDSON SOFT Japan because I want Shootanto: Evolutionary Mayhem. It's a 500 points WiiWare game I bought a 1000 Wii Points card for. It was advertised on Nintendo's website. It STILL is advertised on Nintendo's website. And I asked them why they've put that game down, and asked them to let me buy/download their game somehow. I want SHOOTANTO!! They apologize, but they won't sell it to me!
I could buy something else for the 1000pts but I bought the card for a specific, advertised game I really want to play but it was randomly removed all of a sudden and if they can do this then why support the service at all? Do I have to worry about Phoenix Wright 3? I have only downloaded PH1&2 yet. Do I have to frantically buy all those games I wanted before they took em all down?? I want SHOOTANTO! And official annoncements weeks before they take away games!!

I'm still wondering why NL has never done an article on this.

Exactly! I believe that I had expected them to do one when we first started realizing this was happening.
I think they should at least do one of those where they ask our opinions. NL is apparently getting well known, so maybe an article might actually catch Nintendos attention.
I really think it's just inconsiderate that they take these down with no warning at all. Heck, if they warned us, they might get a few more sales before they take it off.

Exactly I for one would have downloaded The Magic Obilisk had I known it was going to be removed

I hate the fact the Hudson has removed games as they are one of the best WW developers. Now I can't find Pit Crew Panic. At least AC Returns, Bomberman Blast and Star Soldier R are still availible.

It's not necessarily Nintendo's decision to take them down. It's the publishers'.

I feel the same way. After so many games being removed as of late I'm not feeling confident about the future of the Wii U online store. Even if Nintendo has no control over a publisher removing a game they should still make sure their website is updated and give a heads up to the consumer. If there is a bug that causes games to randomly dissappear and show up a later then FIX IT. Nintendo needs to remember they are in buisness to sell games and have consumers find them as easy as possible.

I believe Pit Crew Panic is still available on the WiiWare service.

Where can I be warned about the next wiiware removed games?

Guys check out the shopping guide in the Wii Shop it now clearly states that games will be removed without any notification and that removed games will not be able to be recovered or re-downloaded D|

I found a way to download some of the removed games.
Details can be found on my backloggery page: www.backloggery.com/skttr

Do you have to join to view this? (because I didn't see it there.)

Not in the Wii Shop, But I can't find any of Gameloft's soccer or racing games in the eshop.

@longtimegamer: i think he was hesitant to post it here because technically Nintendo has taken those games down, but as you'd still be paying them Wii Points for the games involved, their laziness is your lucky day. hope you don't mind me posting the instructions here for the sake of convenience, SKTTR — who knows when Nintendo'll fix the loophole :3

@Blackdragon, @Skitter: Thanks.

I checked and found that shootano, Planet Pachinko, and Lonpos could be found in the Nintendo channel here.
I already own shootano and PPachinko (Wouldn't be missing anything, not getting this.)
Not sure if I'll get lonpos (though I'm thinking about it. Would be cool to get a game thats sposed to be gone.) You can get at least 2, I think, by putting in the publisher.

I didn't find anyway to bring up Tmagic Obelisk or junglespeed.
I wonder if either can be found on canadian shop channels, or some other so they can be gifted?

EDIT: Well I used the link for lonpos and it led me to the shop channel, but it said something like it wasn't available at the moment. It appeared to have the instruction "manual" though. oh well.

There's a game I have in my head, it came out semi-early in the Wii's lifecycle, but I can't remember the name. It's a VC game, can't remember which system it was on (Genesis or Turbografix maybe) but it was like a top down, maybe 3/4 view, war type game where you control a commando dude where you can shoot in different directions and try to advance against the enemy. I think it had multiplayer as well. I searched through about every VC game and couldn't find it. The closest thing I found was Gain Ground and I'm pretty sure that wasn't it. So either I'm nuts or they removed it. Or maybe it's on there and I somehow overlooked it.

I apologize if this is very confusing. Maybe someone has a clue of what I'm talking about.

@ this thread:

I hate Nintendo sometimes. Good thing Microsoft and Sony don't do this nonsense... or do they?

Sounds like Bloody Wolf for Turbografx.

@tendoboy: they do.

@shyguy: Crack Down or MERCS maybe?

None of those sound like what I'm thinking of. Perhaps I'm crazy or Gain Ground really is what I was thinking of. And I heard that game's pretty bad.