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Look, Nintendo, just bloody well release it already, 3DS owners have waited a 3DS-lifetime for some decent 1st-party, non-remake titles.

And Paper Mario 3DS as well, while you're at it, there's good chaps...

Might have been better calling it Fantastic Voyage as the plot-line looks similar but then it's only Sci-Fi uber-freaks and older gamers that would know of the movie and it's plot

Also reminds me of Novastorm for the PS1... this looks like one for the shopping list...

I had a version of this for the VIC20 - was it a Jeff Minter game? -.

Anyway I was playing this one time when my Mum & Dad visited so Mum had a go, sits there bashing the button and saying "What am I doing again?" and then beats the highest score I got at that point in time by about 20%... I didn't play it much after that... LOL!

This incarnation, for some reason, looks rather interesting and I'm keen to try it out on the 3DS.

@3 unless you can find Wii Speak in a bargain bin (I picked up three for Au$5.00 ea) don't bother wasting your US$30.00 (or so) unless you've got any of the handful of games listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Speak and/or a bunch of friends whom you already PM via your console.

The PDP on the other hand will blow out to a massive three titles that it is compatible with on the release of MW3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP_Headbanger_Headset

@James - Not that I'm holding my breath, mate, but is this title Wii Speak compatible or will I still be looking at using a PC-based workaround (if I don't betray my sensibilities and buy one of these)?
I already own more headsets than I care to and it'd be nice if for once Nintendo would allow users some leeway in the choice of 3rd party headsets instead of locking us down to what works out to be a collection of "one-trick ponies".

I s'pose it's been said by many before me - if people already have friend's codes, what's the point in not having voice-chat available and selectable with friends only in all Wii online games?

I'm keen on the new Wii U but this smothering-mother approach that Nintendo indulges itself in is what put me off the Wii four years ago and I hope as a potential Wii U consumer that I will have more choice over my online gaming experience.

I thought this was some kind of Borat-inspired spin on poker, and maybe there'd bea bear in the game for some obtuse reason but I can see from the review that I was expecting too much from a WiiWare title.

Besides, I'm not into card-games. How about Sexy Battlefield 1942?

@ToxieDogg if you're ancient at 34, what does that make me at 49? Legendary?
Mythical?
Or the world's oldest newb, since I've played very little NES?

WooHoo - they appeared sometime in the last hour!
Probably 5:00PM AEST.
Where they appear in the "Titles You've Downloaded" section is subject to how many downloads - including game trailers - you've already had.

@BenAV yeah I was just checking this post out - it's nearly 12:30 in the arvo in Western Australia so you must have beat me to it by a few minutes by the time of your last post.
I'd imagine people east of here, including the Kiwis are gonna be 'miffed'.

If it's going to be 1st September for Australia, Nintendo, then bloody well say which time-zone you mean - it'll cause less angst..

Of course, we'll still whinge about why 'simultaneous' global releases which start in the Americas a day or two earlier and travel east but that just seems to be 'simultaneous' console gaming release practice in general (Sony do this) and again nobody seems to want to provide an explanation as to why this is so.

NOTE: I'm not including region-specific releases like Xenoblade, Excitebots, etc, in this statement..

I immediately thought of HoverBovver on the C64 but aside from lawn-mowing, I think this is almost removed enough from the old game to be considered unique...

I look on this celebration as a bit of an outsider.
Like LTD, my eldest son has a "tech-crazy Daddy" (me) who bought his kids an SNES but being the PC gamer I was at the time, I didn't get into the console in a big way and ended up getting the kids a the first Sony PS.
However my kids loved the SNES while they had it, andI think Donkey Kong Country 2 stands out in my mind as one of their all-time faves.

After picking up a Wii again recently (2nd hand and cheaper than a new release PS3 game) I'm discovering pretty much for the first time why there's so much love for Nintendo. I appreciate how well-crafted their 1st party titles are and once I've finished PAper Mario, my next VC game will be the SNES's DKC

@James I think you'll need a bigger hook, like typing in all caps, mate... in all this outpouring of SNES-love I think they missed it

@daznsaz nah mate, we'll be chuckin' a few o' them green wallabies (from My Australian Farm) next to the shrimp on the bahhbie for you and yer mates from across the pond...
Giving us boomerangs is like giving free sand to the Saudis... and have you ever seen what makes for bush tucker?

@sillygostly - I really really wanted a 3dWWIItank game on the PCback in the day. The description made it sound promising, just what I wanted but the reviews I'd read (and this was in the pre-Internet 486 and Pentium days) said it was the pits.
Undaunted, I forked out seventy bucks on the promise on the back of the box and high expectations believing that this just wasn't the reviewers' "thing".
It was the shiniest 70-dollar turd I ever bought... I just wish I could remember the name but I think I have the kind of amnesia that comes from being traumatised by the realisation that you actually paid for a really shyte game, having ignored all warnings...

@JimmyWhale - I guess that if at some time you've been on th eShop or added a friend in the given time-frame, or you've been given the original purchase receipt for warranty purposes, then I wouldn't see it so much as 'beating the system' because that unit had been purchased within the qualifying period.
If you'd bought the 3DS from a second-hand store or pawn-brokers, those guys don't generally hand-over the original purchase receipts probably because most of the stuff they get is out of manufacturer's warranty anyway, so there might be a struggle even if you had a shop-receiipt with the 2nd-hand pricing on it.

Ahh yeah... that'll be the Lesser Red-breasted Green Tree-Wallaby, as you can clearly see in the second pic.

Second most ferocious animal in Australia after the Drop-bear....

@Mistgun - At the 30 second mark, there's Toad (with green spots) following Mario who's heading left across screen, so he's not entirely alone

I'm just getting into my first Paper Mario on the Wii's VC and loving it, so this will be a required purchase... once I finish (or get bored with) Pokemon Black, that is!

This is a much better response than Sony's pathetic post-hacking effort, IMO, and I used to love my PS3 to the point of almost being a fan-boy.

When a business and it's top executives behave in a less self-serving manner and focus on the customers, both existing and potetntial, you've gotta admire them and stick with them.

There certainly aren't many (if any) major Western businesses that I'm aware of who would do this - they're too much into being slaves to the "short-term, high-gain, screw-everyone" mantra.

So, Thank You for the freebies, Iwata-san.
Just don't make me wait too long for the Wii U - I'm ready now!!!!