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@vakama94
However, do remember that wiiloveit likes B-Plus' games too... So I don't know, his judgment might be kinda questionable... Not saying Gyrostarr is good cause I don't know. It's just that... Well, you should get a second opinion.

No big surprises?! I'd call Protöthea a huge surprise. Not perhaps the kind of surprise I looked forward to but as far as it being surprising it's a huge shocker none the less and one that's unlikely to be topped any time soon.

@warioswoods
In my mind it's everyone's new favorite gag gift to their friends... That's why it's selling... Yeah, that's my story and I'm stickin to it. And besides, it's sort of an anomaly, we're usually pretty good at awarding quality... Unless it's a puzzle game...

Happy Holidays entered in the UK?! HAHAHAHAAH!
...
Although actually, that's just depressing...

The Swedish top 20:
(1) 1 - LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias
(2) 2 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
(3) 3 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
(4) 4 - Driift Mania
(5) 5 - Contra ReBirth
(6) 6 - Aha! I Got It! Escape Game
(14) 7 - LostWinds*
(9) 8 - Mega Man 9*
(7) 9 - Sexy Poker
(8) 10 - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
(11) 11 - Bomberman Blast*
(10) 12 - World Of Goo
(13) 13 - Family Slot Car Racing
(12) 14 - Fun! Fun! Minigolf
(R) 15 - Bubble Bobble Plus!
(15) 16 - Tetris Party
(-) 17 - Little Tournament Over Yonder
(19) 18 - My Aquarium*
(R) 19 - Swords & Soldiers
(R) 20 - Gradius ReBirth

Left the chart:
(16) - - Onslaught (35w)
(17) - - My Pokémon Ranch* (58w)
(18) - - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord (10w)
(20) - - You, Me and the Cubes (3w)

@Ezekiel
They don't need to do a thing... Ok, they do need to translate it but if we don't understand all the jokes due to cultural differences... Well, boohoo for us. Maybe I'll end up learning something new. Besides, half the charm of something like that is going "WTF?!" at the sheer weirdness of it.

WHAT?! Maybe there's still hope for Pole then... I know that's Sega but maybe? I still really want it...

I'm so puzzle fatigued by now that if you so gave a game 12/10 I still would never even consider buying it. We so have enough puzzle games...

The Swedish Top 20:
(-) 1 - LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias
(1) 2 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
(2) 3 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
(5) 4 - Driift Mania
(3) 5 - Contra ReBirth
(8) 6 - Aha! I Got It! Escape Game
(4) 7 - Sexy Poker
(10) 8 - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
(7) 9 - Mega Man 9*
(6) 10 - World Of Goo
(16) 11 - Bomberman Blast*
(14) 12 - Fun! Fun! Minigolf
(9) 13 - Family Slot Car Racing
(20) 14 - LostWinds*
(18) 15 - Tetris Party
(11) 16 - Onslaught
(17) 17 - My Pokémon Ranch*
(13) 18 - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord
(15) 19 - My Aquarium*
(12) 20 - You, Me and the Cubes

Left the chart:
(19) - - Learning with the PooYoos Episode 1 (2w)

Yeah, nothing there for me... Doesn't bother me though, still haven't played through LostWinds 2 yet. CaveStory happens when it happens.

Those pics are very pretty...

Rather have a spiritual sequel to E.V.O.. But I've long since accepted that that won't happen.

How about getting your head out the US there jbrodack, OK?

How about a 0, okay?

What?! That is certainly a nice surprise! I'll be playing Lost Winds tonight!

@Zork2
Sorry, no online was a deal breaker for me...

Another week, another chart. Here we go again.

The Swedish top 20:
(1) 1 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
(2) 2 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
(3) 3 - Contra ReBirth
(6) 4 - Sexy Poker
(4) 5 - Driift Mania
(5) 6 - World Of Goo
(11) 7 - Mega Man 9*
(-) 8 - Aha! I Got It! Escape Game
(8) 9 - Family Slot Car Racing
(14) 10 - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
(19) 11 - Onslaught
(17) 12 - You, Me and the Cubes
(R) 13 - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord
(10) 14 - Fun! Fun! Minigolf
(7) 15 - My Aquarium*
(20) 16 - Bomberman Blast*
(12) 17 - My Pokémon Ranch*
(R) 18 - Tetris Party
(15) 19 - Learning with the PooYoos Episode 1
(16) 20 - LostWinds*

Left the chart:
(9) - - Water Warfare (9w)
(13) - - Magnetis (2w)
(18) - - Defend Your Castle* (49w)

Aren't there like hundreds of free flash games like this? Really people, stop giving Digital Leisure your money... They don't deserve it.

@Tony
Can't possibly imagine many true FF fans being particularly interested in today's event cause if you're a real Final Fantasy fan, how the hell is it possible that you don't own this game already. It's been re-released something like 6 times already...

I've always thought making a Magic Sword game in a Metroidvania style would work excellently. Also, of course, a Mega Man X sequel in SNES style would be amazing.

Being fairly familiar with fan translations in general I know full and well that those last 5% take up atleast 75% of the time spent... But good to see them chuckin along, wish them all the best.

@24:
Just face it. It's never gonna happen. Either just switch your Wii's region to Australia at some point when you're on 0 points and then buy it there. Or just do what I did, buy the SNES cart...

yawn...

It was a bit touch and go there for a while due to the new update but thanks to the extremely efficient homebrewing scene everything was solved and I'm now able to bring you the chart.

Not being able to do the chart today would have totally bummed me out this week. Cause this marks the 53rd consequtive chart that I've posted and thus my one year anniversary! This means that apart for the US chart, the Swedish chart is the longest running uninterrupted chart coverage of WiiWare sales! Yay! Too bad though that about three of you actually care...

The Swedish top 20:
(-) 1 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
(1) 2 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
(2) 3 - Contra ReBirth
(3) 4 - Driift Mania
(6) 5 - World Of Goo
(-) 6 - Sexy Poker
(18) 7 - My Aquarium*
(4) 8 - Family Slot Car Racing
(16) 9 - Water Warfare
(13) 10 - Fun! Fun! Minigolf
(10) 11 - Mega Man 9*
(14) 12 - My Pokémon Ranch*
(20) 13 - Magnetis
(5) 14 - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
(-) 15 - Learning with the PooYoos Episode 1
(11) 16 - LostWinds*
(-) 17 - You, Me and the Cubes
(R) 18 - Defend Your Castle*
(9) 19 - Onslaught
(15) 20 - Bomberman Blast*

Left the chart:
(7) - - Texas Hold'em Poker (4w)
(8) - - Bonsai Barber (6w)
(12) - - Bubble Bobble Plus! (24w)
(17) - - Icarian: Kindred Spirits (14w)
(19) - - Swords & Soldiers (17w)

Too bad the first year anniversary didn't happen under better circumstances. Ever since the algorithm chance everything has been going crazy and quite a few good games left the chart this week. I'm almost starting to think that maybe it wasn't an algorithm chance at all, but instead someone happened to mistakenly hit the big reset button and nullified the logged sale number data. Not to fret though, considering the current chaos the good games are sure to bounce back before long. Most of the returnees of the last two weeks probably don't have a staying power longer than a few weeks. As a side note, impressive feat of Sexy Poker to reach 6th considering that at first it wasn't released at all and when it eventually was released a bit later than everything else it was buried good.

I'd definitely consider this one... You know, if I could access the WiiShop...

Yes, yes and yes! Smart guy that one!

@Tony:
Don't see how demos making some developers lose sales would be a bad thing. That obviously just means that the game wasn't very good and we don't want bad games to do well anyway. And also, like you said, others would most likely get more sales, the good ones, which is a good thing. All in all, demos are a win-win situation for everyone. Well, except for Nintendo's bandwidth costs.

Someone on NoE headquarters has seriously been fiddling around with the algoritm a bit too much in the past few days and now the chart movement makes no sense anymore. For example, this time last night Pokemon was at 12th, midday today it was 7th and now it's down to 12th again. There's no way that should happen, especially since it didn't even chart last week. How hard is it to just measure the number of sales for any given game within the last 7 days. Seriously NoE, just solve this and then stop messing about, it annoys me.

The Swedish top 20:
(2) 1 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
(1) 2 - Contra ReBirth
(4) 3 - Driift Mania
(3) 4 - Family Slot Car Racing
(6) 5 - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
(5) 6 - World Of Goo
(8) 7 - Texas Hold'em Poker
(19) 8 - Bonsai Barber
(15) 9 - Onslaught
(11) 10 - Mega Man 9
(10) 11 - LostWinds*
(12) 12 - Bubble Bobble Plus!
(R) 13 - Fun! Fun! Minigolf
(R) 14 - My Pokémon Ranch*
(R) 15 - Bomberman Blast*
(R) 16 - Water Warfare
(9) 17 - Icarian: Kindred Spirits
(R) 18 - My Aquarium*
(7) 19 - Swords & Soldiers
(-) 20 - Magnetis

Left the chart:
(13) - - Arkanoid Plus! (4w)
(14) - - Bit.Trip Core (4w)
(16) - - Mr Driller W (3w)
(17) - - Gradius Rebirth (11w)
(18) - - Texas Hold'em Tournament (25w)
(20) - - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King* (65w)

See what I mean? The chart has gone crazy...

@Omega
There's fuss being made about WiiWare? Sure haven't seen it. It's not like it's being advertized to the public really.

I remember seeing this racer released in Japan that Sean annoyingly enough refused to give any impressions on... Dang it!

@StarDust:
Well, do remember that this week there was only 5 days between the charts. 2 days can make a lot of difference.

I'm feeling pretty sure the algorithm for calculating the "Popular Titles" just changed again cause for the past few days everything has been jumping all over the place in a rather chaotic way, however this time I can't really figure out how they've decided to do it. However it does seem like it's done over a shorter interval than before, possibly even shorter than a week... This is however only speculation... And in any case, it's not like I can do anything about it.

The Swedish top 20:
(2) 1 - Contra ReBirth
(1) 2 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
(3) 3 - Family Slot Car Racing
(5) 4 - Driift Mania
(4) 5 - World Of Goo
(10) 6 - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
(15) 7 - Swords & Soldiers
(11) 8 - Texas Hold'em Poker
(12) 9 - Icarian: Kindred Spirits
(20) 10 - LostWinds*
(8) 11 - Mega Man 9
(17) 12 - Bubble Bobble Plus!
(7) 13 - Arkanoid Plus!
(14) 14 - Bit.Trip Core
(19) 15 - Onslaught
(6) 16 - Mr Driller W
(18) 17 - Gradius Rebirth
(16) 18 - Texas Hold'em Tournament
(R) 19 - Bonsai Barber
(R) 20 - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King*

Left the chart:
(9) - - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord (8w)
(13) - - Bomberman Blast (49w)

Damn, just checked out Castle of Magic and god dammit, it looks awesome... So why the hell can't Gameloft release games like THAT on WiiWare. Why do we have to make do with only shovelcrap from them... Seriously, I demand that they port that over to the WiiWare before too long, you hear me Gameloft?

This has the potential to be one of the best games of this fall... I mean, all they have to do is just port Worms Armageddon, add online support and rankings and such and that should do it. Hopefully they won't end up screwing that up.

I'm pretty sure that's not a complete list. For example, Monkey Island 4 and 5 is nowhere to be seen and we all know those games are coming out in November and December respectively... And we all know how well NoE's list for Q2 turned out... However, I do agree that LiT nonappearance is kinda disconcerting, someone should pester NoE about that... And also the name change of Night Game makes me cranky, I really liked the novelty of having a name like that.

Impressive how fast they're churning these out... Although I guess technically Gradius ReBirth wouldn't be a "new" game per se. Still though, what's next one might wonder... Salamander? Twinbee? Goemon? Metal Gear? Or perhaps, if I'm allowed to hope, a new Axelay?

@jbrodack
What he said...

"Beginning next week, the WiiWare Top 20 will be put up on Wednesdays at 6pm CST" ...
Managed to hold it together one tiny little week... That's almost sad...

The Swedish top 20 (from Wednesday as always):
(1) 1 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
(-) 2 - Contra ReBirth
(2) 3 - Family Slot Car Racing
(5) 4 - World Of Goo
(9) 5 - Driift Mania
(11) 6 - Mr Driller W
(3) 7 - Arkanoid Plus!
(8) 8 - Mega Man 9
(6) 9 - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord
(7) 10 - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
(18) 11 - Texas Hold'em Poker
(10) 12 - Icarian: Kindred Spirits
(16) 13 - Bomberman Blast
(4) 14 - Bit.Trip Core
(15) 15 - Swords & Soldiers
(13) 16 - Texas Hold'em Tournament
(14) 17 - Bubble Bobble Plus!
(17) 18 - Gradius Rebirth
(12) 19 - Onslaught
(R) 20 - LostWinds*

The performance of Monkey Island is really starting to scare me now. I mean, I knew that Guybrush and Co has a stronger standing in Sweden than pretty much anywhere else, but at this point it's first place performance is comparitive only to WoG and MM9. And also have in mind that the competition is much stiffer these days than it was during the other two title's reigns. And that's for an episodic game. It wouldn't surprise me if there are 5 episodes of Monkey Island all charting at the same time in November. Yikes...

Also, the fishes didn't make a quick return this week and it even let LostWinds go past it. Maybe that means it really is gone for good... Or maybe the LostWinds boost was just due to the sequel announcement.

@Sean <b>Aaron</b>:
Well, it would be much funner if the arcade games released weren't always games that already are available on console, and even more so games that already are on the VC in some form or another. How about giving us something new... Or DoDonPachi... I'd be alright with that too.

So... you're skipping the chart this week eh? Also, boring update, move along, nothing to see here.

@KnucklesSonic8
That would be the famed exception that confirms the rule. That game would also have extremely strong brand name pull to... Something the rest of them doesn't have to say the least.

@KnucklesSonic8
Which is why I added the "even anything that looks like a mini game collection" line...

When will people learn that any mini game collection, or even anything that looks like a mini game collection, will fail every time on WiiWare. Just look at Jungle Speed... Or F&FP... Or Picturebook Games... Or 3-2-1 Rattle Battle... It's just not happening, drop it already... Jeez...

Looks like Ballz... And it also looks like balls...

Just imagine if every major company focused as much on WiiWare as Konami/Hudson does... We'd have like 10 releases per week atleast.

What? Not even Monkey Island 2? That's surprising...

@NotEnoughGolds
Not true. In fact, Mega Man 9 has never been further down than 11th around these parts. Atleast not on a chart day.

Never been a fan of the run'n'gun genre really but it's a good game to get. Should be interesting to see whether it's Monkey Island Ch 2 or this that will make it to the top spot.

@XGen
Yeah, cause having it leave the chart after 53 straight weeks? And what about the Swedish chart, it left the top 20 there 9 weeks ago even. That's just awful...

I wonder how Legendo would feel about those numbers though.

@Supermarioman
Then you outta focus more on the Swedish chart...

Say after me everyone! NO.MORE.FISH! Oh well, it'll probably return eventually but as far as I'm concerned this is a landmark moment.

The Swedish Top 20:
(1) 1 - Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
(2) 2 - Family Slot Car Racing
(9) 3 - Arkanoid Plus!
(8) 4 - Bit.Trip Core
(5) 5 - World Of Goo
(4) 6 - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord
(6) 7 - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
(11) 8 - Mega Man 9
(3) 9 - Driift Mania
(7) 10 - Icarian: Kindred Spirits
(-) 11 - Mr Driller W
(12) 12 - Onslaught
(17) 13 - Texas Hold'em Tournament
(16) 14 - Bubble Bobble Plus!
(18) 15 - Swords & Soldiers
(R) 16 - Bomberman Blast
(14) 17 - Gradius Rebirth
(-) 18 - Texas Hold'em Poker
(15) 19 - Bonsai Barber
(10) 20 - Tetris Party