Hmmm, I had wanted to give Pikmin 2 a try and it's so cheap and I can probably get $5 off for preordering it, yet I'm mostly playing 3DS these days. What to do, what to do, what to do . . . .

Yes! I love it when they release the games in NA and Europe simultaneously.

I hope we get Block Factory in NA, because I think I could have a lot of fun customizing a game. Heh, heh, The Tetris Company is not going to be happy. They'll probably still try to launch some sort of bogus lawsuit over this game. In retrospect, I wonder if they allowed Tetris Party Live to lapse on DSiWare as some sort of protest against Nintendo allowing Block Factory onto the eShop — so wouldn't surprise me. Download Gameboy Tetris now before it disappears too, lol.

Lol, I think they found a way to make a Tetris clone without getting in trouble with the Tetris Company. I'll probably download this, because it would definitely be fun playing around with the rules and making your own game.

So the Wii is dead? What am I going to do with the 2600 points left on my system if all they're doing is removing titles at this point?

A tumblewiid rolls by.

It's about the only thing that would interest me in getting a WiiU at this point, as strange as that is.

I think it's got to be $250 to even have a hope of competing, considering people can buy a PS3 for $250, and the WiiU doesn't look any more appealing.

Reminds me of Slippy.

I didn't really like the controls on the WiiWare demo, but I think I'll get this anyway.

If anyone missed out, you can probably get a copy of Tetris Party Deluxe for less than Tetris Axis — I've heard of people finding new copies for as low as $8. That said, I think Tetris Axis looks better on the 3DS screen than any DS version of Tetris does.

I hope we get that as our platinum reward this year! I would totally get a Zelda one if they ever offer them.

What, Tetris Party Live is gone? I wonder if that's a sign a 3DSWare version is in the works or if they got rid of it to increase sales of Tetris Axis.

Ordered mine. Thanks!

Punch-Out so should have been a 3D Classic. If they're not going to add 3D to NES games, they should leave those NES games on the Wii VC or else give us the ability to transfer our Wii VC titles to 3DS, because it's kind of ridiculous if they expect us to keep rebuying the same old game just to play it on every new system they release.

The games don't interest me, but I love how that game cart case has switchable covers.

Well, now I'm sad this wasn't an ambassador game. I was hopeful before that we would get a 3D Classic version, so I took it as a good sign when it wasn't one of the ambassador titles. I might still buy it again anyway, but this was one game I really wanted to see as a 3D Classic for sure. I guess I'll have to keep my fingers crossed for a new 3DS version of Punch-Out!!

If you hack a game, or enter a secret code at a title screen, or pause the game to enter a secret code, I call that cheating because you are doing something outside of the gameplay to influence it. If you are simply playing the game and take a secret shortcut that the programmers included on purpose or use a glitch that the programmers included by mistake, I don't consider that cheating because it is part of the gameplay whether the programmers intended for it to be or not.

Tetris DX didn't have the same great music, and it was easier to keep playing at the top speed so the game didn't have the same challenge as this one. Now that we can save high scores, the only real advantage to DX was the colour, but being as the colours were non-standard it's almost more confusing to play it.

Woohoo, Tetris!

Tetris? For Gameboy? Almost fainted when I saw that. I never thought Nintendo would get the rights to re-release that. I sure hope we get it in NA this week too. I wasn't going to buy any more pea soup games, but I have too much nostalgia for this game. OMG, now we can save our high scores.

Kirby looks tiny. They should have put the bottom panel on the bottom screen and tried to scale the rest to fit the 3DS top screen approximately instead of having the border. I liked the way they redid Excitebike and Xevious to use the whole screen instead of just using a border.

The border looks gaudy, and it's pretty evil to release this so late and force all the crazy Zelda fans to buy the system and game twice over.

@bofis — there is a level 11 CPU, although I think it still might be easier than the level 5 CPU on Tetris DS. Overall, I think this is a better game than Tetris DS though because you can move the pieces faster, there's no infinite spin, you can do spins for pieces other than T, you get more modes, and there are so many options for the appearance and music.

Hmmm, maybe I'll wait for a sale, assuming the game is ever actually available to buy.

I hope it's not delayed too much longer.

Is there still going to be a 3DS version, because I'd rather have that?

I still can't decide, so I guess I'm getting Bit.Trip Both.

Zelda II would satisfy me.

Mwa ha ha, I pre-ordered this game for $26 during E3 and can't wait. Too bad the D-pad on the 3DS sucks so much though — can't really fathom playing Tetris with the C-pad.

Places in Canada have been pricing this game at $60, so I wonder what exactly I have pre-ordered, or if they will adjust the price on my pre-order.

Cool! I will forgive them for leaving us hanging on the WiiWare version then . . . as long as they actually release this one.

This is the least believable rumour ever, which almost makes me wonder if it might be true, lol.

I still have my copy of Bionic Commando, but being able to save progress would be sweet — hmmm, tempting.

Lol, I can't imagine anyone willing to throw away their money on Urban Champion is seriously going to tell a friend to throw away their money so they can play each other. Even the original you could play on your NES with only one copy. It should have been download play.

Heh heh, I just sold 3 of those games used, each for over $20.

Yeah, I definitely think piracy is a huge problem on the DS. It seems like half the people I know actually buy all their games and half use a flash cart and rarely purchase any.

I hope we get this in Canada too. I just might consider going for it rather than triple tripping.

I probably won't buy since I bought Xevious, but lol, those curtains look lame.

Weird how being apologized to makes me wonder if we were actually wronged in some way, but I still don't think we were. Maybe it's a Japanese thing to be overly apologetic about things you really don't need to apologize for. I think it puts a bad spin on things to apologize to us versus just reward us with free games, but I guess apologizing is more sincere than just appeasing us with games.

The only games I really liked were Teeter Targets and Pose Mii, but I tired of those quickly and wound up selling this game.

I still think the system is actually worth $250, so I didn't need to be appeased with 20 free games, but I probably would have been a bit gutted by this big price drop with Excitebike 3D being the only freebie I got for being an early adopter. Getting 20 more free games makes me feel no remorse for buying early, although I suppose I would rather have $80 worth of 3D games from the eShop than these 20 VC titles, but I doubt I would have even had the patience to wait for the price drop even if I'd known in advance it would happen this soon.

What not April 1st, not dreaming — so happy I'm going to explode!

Sigh, I would so buy this were it not for the load times.

They better be available in Canada.

Perfect, and I was just about to cancel my Canadian Netflix on Friday because there's nothing I want to watch anymore, but at least I'll get a chance to try it out first.

I want to see van Gogh's paintings in 3D to see the texture of them, but sculptures would be especially awesome.

It should be SMB, Zelda, and Metroid, but I doubt they'll fork over all their best games right away. I actually kind of like Urban Champion, but probably not enough to pay $6 for it, and it better have single-copy download play or I won't even consider it.

It reminded me of Earthworm Jim as well for some reason.