Top 20 WiiWare Games in USA (7th Jan)

Once again, more of the same, although Mega Man 9 is beginning to gather momentum in it's "dropping" down the charts. Nice to see Fun! Fun! move up a couple of places as well.

UK Charts
1) World of Goo
2) My Bloody Aquarium
3) TV Show King (Still?!?)
4) CueSports - Snooker vs Billiards
5) Tetris Party
6) My Pokemon Ranch
7) Bomberman Blast
8) Brain Challenge
9) Defend your Castle
10) The Incredible Maze*
11) Sudoku Challenge!
12) NEW FUN! FUN! Minigolf
13) Wild West Guns
14) FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: My Life as a King
15) LostWinds
16) Art Style: ORBIENT
17) Pit Crew Panic!
18) SPACE INVADERS GET EVEN
19) Niki - Rock 'n' Ball (why so low?)
20) Art Style: CUBELLO

*Incredible-ness not a guarantee

A big surprise this week is the lack of Trogdor - despite the release of episode five of Strong Bad last Friday. I myself haven't bought it yet since I haven't got round to completing Dangeresque 4 - maybe everyone just happens to be in the same situation as me. Who knows?

Since I've posted first this week, that gives me time to prepare for Djungelurban... will the "Wall of Text" have returned this week?

No Maboshi?

Took it's sweet time but my computer is now in working condition again. Everything will return to normal next week.

Here's the Swedish top 20:
(1) 1 - World Of Goo
(-) 2 - Fun! Fun! Minigolf
(3) 3 - My Aquarium
(2) 4 - Mega Man 9
(4) 5 - Tetris Party
(6) 6 - LostWinds
(5) 7 - Wild West Guns
(7) 8 - Defend Your Castle
(8) 9 - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King
(9) 10 - Cue Sports: Snooker vs Billiards
(12) 11 - Bomberman Blast
(14) 12 - TV Show King
(17) 13 - SPOGS Racing
(19) 14 - The Incredible Maze
(20) 15 - My Pokémon Ranch
(13) 16 - Midnight Bowling
(10) 17 - Art Style: Orbient
(15) 18 - Brain Challenge
(11) 19 - Sudoku Challenge!
(16) 20 - Niki - Rock & Ball

Swedes sure love their Minigolf...

Ah, it appears that the wall of text has been omitted again. <sarcasm>Ah well...</sarcasm>
*oh - and hope you get your compooter sorted soon, DJ!

No Maboshi?
Now you mention it, that is odd. You complain about not getting it for so long, and then you don't even care any more! I see that you still bought CueSports - WHY NOT MBS?

I doubt Maboshi will show up on the charts. Just not going to appeal to the US crowd, at least in large enough numbers to pop up on the charts.

Whoa - what's with the new avatar, Corbs?

Cue Sports is doing quite nicely for the 500 point price tag.
But why is it doing better in the UK at 800 points? Weeird... (tries to do bug eyed smiley to accompany the word "weird" but realises he's forgotten how to do it - so just imagine it's there instead of this sentence)

MM9 is at 13?
wow i cant believe it and the worse part is My Pokemon Ranch is ahead of it! ...just great

@wiiloveit
you guys know a good game when you see one. I`ve downloaded it and its really fun!
and its great to see Lostwinds so high over in the UK

@wiiloveit: you guys know a good game when you see one.
I'll take the credit for the UK, then. Well, not the rubbish games in the charts, just the good ones. Blame the rubbish games on Gordon Brown - he seems to get blamed for everything at the moment, so why not?

Shocker!
In other news pong toss is (unfortunately) still hanging in there.

Yay Tiki Towers!

C'mon Nintendo, buy 2D Boy NOW

@wiiloveit
some people like those rubbish games because their simple and easy, i mean come on just look at the US charts
and anyway atleast your charts dont have Pong Toss...ugh!

Hey Hey! You shook things up with a new WoG pic!

Augh, again with the same Top 3.......

@Corbie: What's with the avatar? Everyone recognizes your Grim Reaper one. Looks evil though, so it fits the "Corbie's Avatar Trend"

@ WarioFan63 - I did that just for you!

As for the avatar, it's the witch hat from the witch character in the Cave shooter DeathSmiles. The hat has a name, but I can't think of it right off the top of my head. (Get it, off the top of my head)

@Corbie- You need another Rare avatar... now. Oh, a witch hat you say? I doubt Rare has come up with any notable witches... especially not any that have appeared in any recent games. I've been doing a lot of manual labor lately (you might call it grunt work), though so maybe my mind is clouded with fatigue. Yep... I had to heave this massive boulder that landed on some poor fool... The victim was still alive, but was in a skeletal form. I hear the victim is currently little more than a skull, brain, and eyes being sustained by a highly advanced robotic suit.

Beer Toss and My Pokémon Ranch are still high. What I find odd is that people KEEP downloading both. There are only a finite ammount of Pokémon players, and how can Beer Toss be that... popular?

Expect My Pokémon Ranch to be in 1st place in the end of March... or later...

P.S. Now that we are talking about avatars, mine is of the Hierophant Arcana in Persona 3/FES/4. I put that since I think that Arcana matches me...

Oh Corbie, you really are some kinda angel!

Im guessing this is going to end up being the WoG Icon for 09?

10) The Incredible Maze*

STILL?!!!!!

My Pokemon Ranch sells more than the Art Style series???!!!!

Facepalm

wow my aquarium is in 3rd place? i have but never thought is wac really that great

@MarkyVigoroth: Pokemon has a huge fanbase. It's become a household name, like Mario and Spongebob (if your American, not sure about Europe). Its a gaming franchise everyone knows. it's got more fans than Halo (granted, most of them are below 12 years old but still). It's not like Mega Man 9. I can see My Pokemon Ranch constantly selling very well of its name alone. I don't fault My Pokemon Ranch. Beer Pong, that Hockey Game, and others are much worse. If you except a PKMN Gam eits terrible, but for what it does, it does nice. If it had normal graphics and some Mini-games thrown in to extend the amount of cotent,I would be defending PKMN Ranch. Alas, I hate it a lot too, just not as much as most people. For me, it's a 5.5-6/10.

@Corbie: Wow Corbie, I guess you can't be a non-evil avatar after all. Can you put on an Smiley Face one for tommarow, it would be so wierd to see you with a happy avatar

Yeah MaBoShi should be up there; and what does it take to make Pong Toss go once and for all?, WoG 2, My Bird Cage and Tetris Party 2?

btw Nice new avatar Corbie.

I find it odd that a cult hit like Dr Mario which is in the top five on the US charts is completely absent from the UK charts at all.

#5 in the US is a good spot, LOL!

PS - Yay World of Goo!

These charts are getting boring, they just aren't changing enough. I just wanna see something steal the glory from WoG, not because WoG is a bad game (which it isn't) but because it's ruling ... and every great ruler must be overthrown.

What needs to happen is Nintendo needs to announce their own first-party title.

And @24. Twilight Crow
Wow, I had forgotten sequels even existed for a while there. I wonder what the first WiiWare game to recieve a sequel will be. Eh, probably will be Lost Winds 2.

Maybe they could make a Luigi's Mansion 2 for wiiware and use the wiimote for it. Not a very big game anyways... just a thought. loved that game and the brother of Mario

I'd like to see "Mario Kart WiiWare". Each download would give you a single Retro Cup once a month each would have four courses and would play indentical to Mario Kart Wii. This would be a kind of expansion pack. I'm thinking of six installments.

and anyway atleast your charts dont have Pong Toss...ugh!
That is only because it isn't out

MaBoShi didn't exactly do great in the charts here in the UK but at least it appeared I guess the internet hype train of about 5 people evaporated in the months it took...

9 (9) - My Pokémon Ranch

No comments.....

@Zaphod Beeblebrox: Nice name.
@BassX0: That would work really well, but it would still take up too much memory. Maybe if they released a free starter pack with all the basic programming, controls and doodah with 200 point tracks, that could work (even if it is a little elaborate).
How about a WiiWare DK remake? Or a DK game in the style of the DS game where (I think) you span round and used L/R to grab with your hands?

As boring as it is Pokemon Ranch does have its usefulness if you are a big time Pokemon player such as my faience and myself. By serving as a slightly entertaining form of Pokemon storage system. better to pay $10 for a PKMN storage download then a $50 PKMN storage disc (referring to Pokemon Box GCN)

@jpfan: Good argument there, although it is still pretty likely that many consumers have bought it without the knowledge you possess, thinking it's a completely new, fun standalone game.

@Wiiloveit: Totally. A friend of mine bought it and enjoyed it for awhile ... then he started getting bored ... I never even thought about buying it as I'm not a big fan of Pokemon (I hate it's battle style)

I never even thought about buying it as I'm not a big fan of Pokemon (I hate it's battle style)
I also find the battling a bit tedious, and I hate the random nature of things sometimes. I suppose it's not exactly an awful system, it's just not for me, but then - I detest RPG's - although I must say what I played of Super Mario RPG could've been worse, even though it was a bit easy.

I don't really "detest" RPGs I just don't like turn based combat very much. I love Secret of Mana which is one of the few real-time RPGs.

maybe if the did Pokémon as a fighting game like smash bros

@jpfan1989: You need to e-mail that idea to Nintendo - it's GENIUS! I would love to see that happen, though not exactly the same as Smash Bros - and not quite a generic Beat 'Em up either. You might be onto something there...