Sounds to me like Geeks and Otaku want PS3s. Preferably the MGS4 Bundles.

Love the warnings at the end... "Do not try speed eating at home."

This game is almost as disgusting as the concept of competitive eating is.

www.freerice.com

"Beating you in a race would almost be as much fun as beating you senseless."

I'm guessing the voiceboxes with pictures in them is an example of the point and click gameplay? This looks more like in game footage than a trailer, per se.

Nice job guys. Shall we commence to bitch about the lack of storage on the Wii now?

Yawn. What the Wii really needs is a port of Snake from the Ti-82 graphing calculators. There is already a crappy retail bowling game that is worse than Wii Sports out there.

@ Tony: Careful, man, you're showing your age. Wonder if there will be gap coverage to cover the donuthole...

Seriously though, I wonder if this game will do better with the nursing home crowd? They know all about the meds..

Just found something interesting on Wikipedia under Tempest 2000. The game was designed for the Jaguar by Jeff Minter, but he did not handle the conversions: "The Sega Saturn version (programmed by High Voltage Software like the PlayStation version)..." That would go a long way to explain the similarity.

Mmm, reminds me of Tempest 2000 on the Jaguar. I wouldn't mind that on VC either.

Lorenzo Lamas is... Renegade.

@diablos: It's called the information superhighway. There is lots of information if you search. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_2

Heh heh. Time to beat up some Abobos!!

Formerly titled: "Strong Bad's 9.5 rating in Nintendo Power or ELSE Challenge '08."

Heh, I had Defender of the Crown on CD-i...

That is a really good video commercial.

@ Damo: How does Burning Fight "in many ways it betters Capcom’s seminal scrolling fighter."? There is no commentary like this on the game's page.

The only Neo Geo games I want are Samurai Shodown.

Wow, Demon 212 is pretty bad at the half-pipe.

There are several varieties of battery packs for the Wiimote. I have and really like the Nyko version; you can get two batteries and a double charger for $35, and they work excellently. Wiimotes do turn off if you set them down for a few minutes.

Heh heh, they invented Mode Eight graphics for the game... Found this advert for the WiiWare game on their site:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbcg4ap.html

Nice jorb!

Sewer Shark!

Beefcake! BEEEFF-CAAAKKKE!!!

Who cares, when you can play Brawl??? Oh... yeah... Europe hasn't got Brawl yet, have they? Sorry guys.

Samurai Shodown and RPGs.

Wait, was that supposed to be an attack? I must've missed it.

Wasn't Metal Slug Anthology a Wii launch title? GameStop is selling used copies for $18. VC Metal Slug seems kinda ridiculous to me.

Well, the Red Baron didn't bomb the Statue of Liberty or fight off Alien UFOs, did he? This is a very fun game, unconcerned with the realities of war and aerial combat.

The game I've wanted ever since the VC was announced... Sky Kid! It may not be everyone's favorite, but my brothers and I would play rather competitive co-op back in the mid-80s, and we still played a few levels on the original cart a few years ago. Instant download for me.

My favorite NES game!! Woo-hoo!!

And additional micro-transactions... No thanks.

So, which characters should Nintendo add to SSB? I've heard that Mega Man should've/could've been in Brawl, but Capcom was waiting for an invitation.

I would gladly pay for additions to Brawl.

Then as each week progressed, 3 more gamecube discs would be unlocked and become readable and playable. This would then be quickly reduced to 1 game a month, because the wii has a 5 year life span and we wouldn't want to run out of games would we? Does that sound smart?

@bacchus - No, that sounds like the XBOX360's backwards compatibility.

@manicfatty - You can rearrange (most of) the channels. Just drag and drop.

@ Bonesaw: I take issue with your assertion that "the majority of fans are extremely disappointed at this point and have good reason to be. Nintendo knows it and has done nothing to accommodate the problem. That should tell you something too."

I think the majority of Wii owners are playing their Wiis and buying more Wii games. My local GameStop still never has any Wiis in stock, because they are all sold the morning that they are delivered. Nintendo does not know that most of their fans are disappointed.

Your average Wii owner doesn't even need to worry about space running out on the internal memory. Even Smash Bros. doesn't take up much more than 5% of the memory, though it does take up about 128 times as much space as say, Mario Galaxy or Twilight Princess.

From the article: "Microsoft recently halved the royalties paid for first-party Xbox Live Arcade from 70 per cent to 35 per cent on games that make under $4m in revenues (the rate rises closer to 50 per cent when the revenues go over that amount...)"

Um, that means Microsoft pockets 65% of the sale. No wonder the developers are pissed. Makes Nintendo's 50% look good, in fact.

@ Starwolf:
One would think that Nintendo has learned it's lesson from losing the last generation's console war. And it would stand to reason that the developers that are now working on WiiWare games would already know Nintendo's price.

@ DJ Triforce:
Not buying a console because it isn't made by a certain company is a stupid reason. I'm a Nintendo fan, and have had every Nintendo console except for the VB and GBC, and the last non-Nintendo console that I bought was the Dreamcast. But that is due to financial reasons, mostly.

I'm liking the look of Dr. Mario and FF...

Floating roads stacked above one another. Interesting.

@manicfatty: Actually, I could see the counter-argument that releasing systems in regions that never received the original games might be successful.

Of course, it seems that most of these old games are not masterpieces of the craft, and are sold mainly due to nostalgia and rose colored memories. I don't think many casual American Wii owners care about MSX or C64.

Multiplayer is the only thing that might make this worth purchasing. I gave it a spin on the PC the other day, and the "unique" visual style does nothing to help the rather basic gameplay. It bothers me that they mispelled "helth" though.

I do like the idea of creating armies of one species of Pokemon. The picture of the rows of Pikachu performing military drills on the website is classic.

Maybe I'll create a Luxio Army.

All the video I've seen looks really basic. If all you can do is "interact", store and take pictures of your Pokemon, then it's not worth it, (unless you've got an unhealthy obsession with the sprites). If, on the other hand, it allows you to access events or other stuff that you otherwise couldn't, then it might be worth it. Since Nintendo Events are super-rare on this side of the Pacific, this might be a good thing.

If Nintendo can add an HDD to the Wii, I'm sure they'll be able to revise the setup of- or expand the number of- screens in the Wii Menu. It's not like the Wii Menu is limited by the hardware.

@Atlantis1982: Even though I'm like you, and fine with the current set-up, Manicfatty's points are quite valid, and your attacks are infantile.
It's not laziness or being spoiled. This is a problem that can be resolved by Nintendo, if they decide to.

Really hoping that gameplay footage was sped up. That's a bit too twitchy for my tastes.

The one screen on gonintendo shows two separate contrails. Dual-wielding Wiimotes?? One can only hope.

@Jupiter: Chrono Trigger, eh? Could you please post a link of where you found this??

The other downside to downloadable games is there will be no market to buy a used game. Also no one to sell your game to once you are finished playing it. (I'm not the sort to sell my used games, my DC games are in the attic gaining dust...) I often wait a few months and buy games for significantly less than the new $50 price tag.

I'd assume GameStop/EB aren't to thrilled by the idea, though it makes perfect sense for the console publisher, since they will be the only source for the game, and wil be able to charge full price on every download.

9 million Wiis, and 10 million VC games sold.

You can get a 1 TB HDD today for a couple hundred bucks. I don't see any reason Nintendo can't realease a smaller HDD for a reasonable price. Though based on the above numbers, I think the people that buy numerous VC games are a minority among all Wii owners.

@Denivire: The game was redone and released on the GBA.