Long-awaited Virtual Console games are where it's at today, with Wii and 3DS both receiving quality titles just in time for July.
Wii Virtual Console
Final Fantasy III (Super NES, 800pts) — The wait is finally over as another 16-bit Square epic reaches Virtual Console in North America. Check out our Final Fantasy III review to see if this is worth spending your gold on.
3DS Virtual Console
Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy, $3.99) — The pink puffball returns, except this time he's white owing to the Game Boy's limited palette. Often slated for its easy difficulty, Kirby still holds a special place in many gamers' hearts, so look out for our review in the next few days to see if he stands the test of time.
DSiWare
Boardwalk Ball Toss (DSi: 200pts, eShop: $1.99) — "Remember the fun and excitement of playing carnival games at the Boardwalk?" says the official announcement. If "not really" is your answer, this probably isn't for you, but now you can have all the fun of throwing balls in your pocket wherever you go. We'll throw a review out next week.
The Lost Town: The Dust (DSi: 500pts, eShop: $4.99) — A top-down adventure game from CIRCLE Entertainment, the team behind the pretty decent Castle Conqueror. We'll review this for you next week.
Moto eXtreme (DSi: 800pts, eShop: $7.99) — Published by Chillingo — responsible for a small game you may have heard of called Angry Birds — this looks like a Trials HD-inspired dirt bike affair, which is fine by us. Full review coming next week.
Heart Spades Euchre (DSi: 500pts, eShop: $4.99) — It's a card game from Cosmigo, the publisher behind the surprisingly good 505 Tangram. Hopefully this effort is worth a look, so stay tuned for our review.
WiiWare
Big Town Shoot Out (Performance Designed Products, 500pts) — A rootin', tootin' shootin' game, this is a more cartoony take than the live action Fast Draw Showdown but with four-player modes it could be a blast. Take aim for our review next week.
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See? Shared games on the eShop worldwide would seem much more nicer.
Final Fantasy III/VI.....FINALLY!!!!
$4.60 for a game you can beat in 20 minutes. Stay classy Nintendo.
I thought rovio makes angry birds and chillingo makes Cut the Rope
Well I'm posting this on my iPad, and I have both games so I'll just check that out.
UPDATE They only make the HD edition of Angry Birds
The Hearts Spades Euchre is a surprise, especially since there is no listing at the official DSware site:
http://www.nintendo.com/games/gameGuide?download=dsiware
I would like to see pics and/or video of it.
Kirby's $3.99, not $4.60. And worth every penny, I reckon.
Haha FFVI finally comes out the week I buy it for my SNES at a store.
/me senses a pattern
YES! YES! YES!
A new Wii VC game that doesn't suck, This makes up for all those unnessassa-unessase... Unneeded blank weeks.
Wasn't that excited for Moto Extreme until I heard it was by Chillingo. Probably won't pick up kirby, much more expensive and I own the original cart.
$4.60 for a game you can beat in 20 minutes. Stay classy Nintendo.
Hm? But you could still beat it in twenty minutes back in the early nineties when it was a full price new Game Boy cartridge. Also, get your head away from the mindset that beating a game means that you no longer have to play it. Kirby is a fun game and is still enjoyable even if you've completed it several times. It has lots of replay value.
This is good news to me i just beat ff2 vc last night.... Im getting ff3 vc when i get home....its goin be a long six hours till then...
@Bass
I agree with you in the sense that the gaming community seems to have put too much stock into amount of gameplay equaling the price of the game or its worth. Plus as you also stated games I really enjoy (which many Kirby games fall into that category) I will come back to and get multiple play throughs out of it. However, I feel that your first point is sort of moot. The price in the 90s of this game is irrelevant to whether it is worth the money being asked for it today.
Im all for multiple playthroughs but to go from sprawling adventures in LADX to My First Video Game is a little disheartening.
Think I'll get Kirby so the little ones can experience this classic.
is kirbys dreamland a good game? plz tell me how long the game takes to beat and give me a rating out of ten stars. thanks!
@JayArr hahaha. nice bro.
Finally! Kirbs is here!
You can make Dream Land last a lot longer if you attempt to beat it without jumping.
i cant seem to find kirby in the eshop on my 3ds, has anyone had this problem?
Ah, finally!! Dear Americans, I knew you'll got the best Final Fantasy!!
Finally, now I can enjoy FF6 as it was intended.
@Mega_man_xK: The info for the releases came from a PR update I'm sure, the actual eshop hasn't updated yet. May be a couple hours or so.
Sweet, Kirby
@Mega_man_xK
eshop update releases are sceduled for 9am every thursday.
BOOYAA! Final Fantasy III final-ly hit our shores!
@BarrenMind Thanks
@Alpha2797 Its already 10 Am where I live.
I'm in puerto rico so my time zone is AST
So.. what time zone are you referring to?
It's EST I believe.
@Aviator thank you too
@Mega_man_xK
I am referring to PST. It's barely 7am here.
just checked its just a one hour difference 9EST = 10AST
FF6! OMG! A small ray of sunshine! Does this mean that NoA have woken up from their hangover or what?
@Alpha2797 DAGNABIT!!!
EDIT : 9 PST = 12AST
Nice, I never got to play Kirby's Dream Land back in the day.
Game length and price don't have any necessary relation; game quality and price should.
Kirby's price is perfectly fine. On the issue of length, if you're concerned, it has an additional hard mode that is unlocked after beating it once. However, that's beside the point. You're getting a wonderfully constructed and expertly crafted platformer for less than the price of a sandwich you could eat in 5 or 10 minutes and then forget forever. Stop complaining.
@Mega_man_xK
I know. It's a drag waiting. I still have two more hours to wait.
a classic gameboy game and a classic SNes game in the same week! Keep it up nintendo and you will get my dollars!
i might buy kirby's dreamland then if it is good.
dope
Has anyone noticed that 80% of dsiware games suck? I mean 'Boardwalk Ball Toss'? I know dsiware games can be better than they are now. The only good ones are Shantae, Plants vs zombies, and others.
Great update.
As of this post, we have an hour and a half to go. It's 7:30 am PST here.
LOL, JayArr wins the comments. But dammit, I'm 200 points short.
Maybe Kirby, The Lost Town and that Chillingo game, but I'm reluctant to throw any more money towards Chillingo, so maybe not.
FF III...finally!
@Hyperstar96
I think it's ment to say 3.99.
@Froggievilleus
Argh I hope you see this! Anyway, sometimes games announced in the PR don't have a page up yet on NoA's site. Or they do and it's just hidden. Typically they're all public around Tuesday.
However here you go:
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/Ptnk0th-z7YCEIyWdDadA9AmaB_qfq1m
Eh...nothing interesting for me...
I'm only not downloading Kirby's Dream Land because I already have the original cartridge for it.
So is wiiware finished, or is there anything decent being developed?
Kirby's Dreamland was my first Gameboy game ever
I know where my cartidge of it is.. Thinking whether I should buy it..
Oh, and don't forget the 'second' adventure in that game after you beat it. It's much harder.
I hope Nintendo brings Kirby's Dreamland 2. I missed out on that one
final fantasy 3 on my 3ds ? is that really true ?
oh wow, its not a wet dream, its real !!!
instant buy !!!!
The complaining is hilarious. This update is a million times better compared to last week's update, and I will be downloading both VC games.
Final Fantasy VI AND Kirby's Dream Land!? This is GREAT!
I thought Aya and the Cubes of Light was supposed to come out on Wiiware today? ...Oh well, who cares we got FF3!!!
Zero complaints from this guy. Glad I'll finally have my hands on Kirby's first adventure. As far as length, sometimes it's good to have a quick, fun little game you can play and beat over and over again.
So now that all you people that have been whinning about when are we getting FF3, what are you going to whine about now?
I take it Final Fantasy III was Nintendo's idea of an apology for the BS comment on Xenoblade, Last Story and Pandora's Tower yesterday. It's like handing us Steak when we asked for the Filet Minion with all the fixings.
@vherub La-Mulana's the only big hit right now. Unless Interplay remakes and Protocol are also on your wishlist.
@XCWarrior I'm certain FF6 was going to come out today regardless of the Rainfall business.
@accc Apparently it's not passed lotcheck yet, the date is now simply "to be confirmed"
Finally, this makes my day today.
is kirby worth the 4 dollars?
@Alpha2797, Is Kirby ever not worth 4 dollars?
FFVI. Awesome.
@Mully
Ok, thanks, however, one question stays in my mind, how long does it take to beat Kirby's Dream Land? I'm still not certain if I'm gonna buy Kirby or not.
@Alpha2797: It's a fun little game but it's only five levels and the fact that Kirby can't take powers from his enemies yet is a little disappointing. I'd personally wait for the sequel to come out instead.
Anyways, regarding this week, pretty good. Kirby's Dreamland is a good release and hopefully this means that the much better sequel is on it's way soon. As for the Wii VC, I was personally hoping for Adventure Island II today, but I might get Final Fantasy VI instead.
@ cheetahman91
Thanks, I had a feeling it was short but only five levels? It's shorter than I thought. No powerups? That stinks. Yeah, I'm gonna wait for the sequel then.
For all those kids wondering where MrDanger88 gets $4.60 well, its this thing called sales tax. You see, when you buy something governments think they should collect some money on most transactions. Good financial planning takes into account the actual cost (sell price, taxes, fees, fuel if driving, etc.) not just sell price. Anyway, glad to finally see Final Fantasy III in NA.
Yeah, IMO, a game that can be beaten in less than an hour isn't even worth $4. I'm glad Final Fantasy VI has finally been released. It's my least favorite FF, but maybe I'll enjoy it more when I play it with my brother.
FINALLY! You people have no idea how long I've wanted to play FF6, but I was to cheap/lazy to buy the SNES/GBA versions. Downloading right now.
@XCWarrior
Yeah, lets just give all the RPG fans a game most of them have already beaten 3 times on the VC. That'll make 'em feel better.
The sales tax on the 3DS eshop drives me insane. There is no option to just pay the $4.60 or whatever, you have to buy $5. I wanted to get Link's Awakening and Donkey Kong before I knew there was tax so I got $10, but I wound up needing 50 cents more. I looked at it, DSiware actually costs more on the 3DS then the DSi due to tax.
Anyways, the Kirby game looks nice. I'm still waiting to see if anything better comes out before I add more. Pokemon, Oracle of Ages/Seasons, Mario Tennis, Mario Land 2 or maybe one of the Wario Land games. If I wind up having some money leftover sometime then I'll pick this up. I do love the Kirby series, but there probably will always be something I want more.
Complaining about 3DS eshop prices seems silly to me. There hasn't been a VC game on the 3DS yet that has seemed unfair to me. I pay $30 to $50 for a game that lasts me 30 to 100 hours, seems fair to have to spend pocket change, less then $5 for a game that will last me 30 minutes in one playthrough and I probably will play several times. Much more expensive to go to a movie, counting a drink and popcorn and I can't take that movie home with me. I would rather complain about something worth complaining about (which $5 isn't to me) like NPC Pikmin 2 not being in the US, no 3DSware, no games for 3DS or Wii until the holiday season other then N64 remakes, etc.
@dodger I agree, the sales tax is driving me bonkers. Before I bought anything for the first time I carefully looked through all the prices, judging how much I needed to add for the games I wanted and how much money I'd have left for other price points. After my first purchase I realized it was all for naught. All that calculation gone to waste! Now I've got a balance of $8.32, which, frustratingly enough, is NOT enough to buy the $7.99 price point games.
Strange... I live in CA where sales tax is high. Yet, I haven't payed a dime for sales tax on 3DS downloads.
The best Final Fantasy ever AND Kirby in ONE DAY?! Niiiiice!
@ShadowSniper7
California residents will soon!
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon-tax-20110630,0,4344787.story
To those who are saying KDL is short, easy and not worth the 4 bucks, I just BARELY squeaked past the final boss with one life remaining. This game is a bit stingier with 1ups than some of the other games in the series (The most lives I ever had was 4) so I found it to be a short, sweet, but challenging experience and the hard mode that's unlocked after besting the final boss is tough as nails!
If there one Final Fantasy game you should play
FF3/6 is a must play.
I stilll call it the best FF game ever made.
I don't care that Kirby's dream land is so short. Everything else about it is so good the length hardly matters. The music is so memorable and catchy.
I just love King DeDeDe's theme!
Glad to see FF VI finally arrive on VC. This will be my first time playing all the way through.
Something good for the 3DS virtual console and something decent for the Wii VC? Nice.
@Mully
Stop, you're making me feel like I'm actually good at platformers.
It's about time that Final Fantasy VI reached the American Virtual Console.
Finally.
Man, they really need a shopping cart system for the eshop (alternatively, just charge the tax when you add the money, but a shopping cart system would be better). At this rate, Wii Points were a better deal it sounds like.
That being said, someone just got a job offer today...I think a 3DS is finally in my immediate future. I can't wait to stock up on these games (and the backlog keeps getting longer...).
@Mickeymac, I am actually good at platformers (I completed DKCR 100%), but this game isn't as easy as people say it is. Heck, none of the Kirby games are. You die in them, or at least I do.
I'd probably get Final Fantasy VI if I didn't already have it for PS1 and GBA. I might get Big Town Shoot Out though...
You shoot cards? WTF?!
@Mickeymac
I'm obviously the worst platformer here. I lost all my lives in Kirby's Epic Yarn.
DUDE! Final Fantasy VI! AWESOME SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!
Too bad I already own the GBA port... so no, I won't be re-buying on my Wii VC.
Well, since I kinda doubt now that my comment in the FFVI review will be read, I'll just go ahead and pose the same question here as I did there.
I gotta ask: I've already got the GBA port of FFVI (though I haven't gotten too far in it yet), so should I still get the SNES version as well? From what I understand, the SNES version has better music and sound quality, but the GBA port is better-translated (though, from what I've gathered, both scripts are good, it's just that the SNES version has more Woolsey-isms). I'm thinking I might just buy this version, play through it, and then later play the GBA version, but I'm not sure. Should I?
^Seeing as it's easier to just look to music up on the internet, I suggest just playing through the game with a better translation.
FF3's been out in Europe and Australia for a while now, but I haven't got round to getting it yet because I'm still playing Chrono Trigger.
I really need to catch up on my games!
Truly great news, waited 3 good months for this update! Without The Last Story or Xenoblade, my sanity receives a much needed boost with this classic. Considering these recent Wii RPG disappointments, I was kind of expecting NoA to tell me how flattered they were by my enthusiasm and excitement but, no, FFIII and Lufia II would not be released to the NA Virtual Console... If it weren't for damn Smash Bros., Nintendo, I'd totally break up with you!
I downloaded FFVI and now I'm hooked. This is (I think) the 4th time playing through for me. I just proved myself wrong, I guess.
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