Gamertell

Nintendo has just announced that this week it will begin offering free demos of WiiWare games via the Wii Shop Channel. You look under WiiWare once you’re in the Wii Shop Channel, and look for demos. Right now you can get Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord, NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits, Bit.Trip Beat, World of Goo and Pokemon Rumble, five of the most popular Wii games available.

Unfortunately, this means that the full WiiWare offerings are rather slim. All there is is Pokemon Rumble. Thankfully there are multiple Virtual Console and DSiWare games available.

Gamertell’s Nintendo Download picks for the week are Pokemon Rumble (WiiWare) and Art Style: Digidrive (DSiWare).

WiiWare

Pokemon Rumble
Price: 1,500 Nintendo Points / $15
Publisher:
Genre: Action / RPG
ESRB Rating: “Everyone 10+” for Mild Cartoon Violence
Players: 1-4
Description: You control Toy Pokemon and pit them against waves of other Toy Pokemon in an attempt to survive. If you win, some of the pokemon you defeated may join, and you can then pick from more pokemon to fight with. Three other players can join you in co-operative multiplayer, and you can exchange Toy Pokemon with friends by saving them to your remote and then going to visit them with that remote in tow. If you have a Club Nintendo account, go through the elaborate process of connecting it to your Wii Shop Channel account and you’ll get a Charizard to use in the game.

Virtual Console

Indiana Jones’ Greatest Adventures
Price: 800 Nintendo Points / $8
Originally Appeared On: SNES
Publisher: LucasArts
Genre: Action / Platformer
ESRB Rating: “Everyone 10+” for Mild Violence
Players: 1
Description: You get to play as Indiana Jones as he journeys through levels that correspond to the first three movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom and Last Crusade. The narrative is a bit light and leaves quite a bit out, but its still worth it. This is a really great SNES game, so if you love platformers and are looking for a new Virtual Console game, keep it in mind.

Street Fighter II: Champion Edition
Price: 700 Nintendo Points / $7
Originally Appeared On: TurboGrafx16
Publisher: Capcom
Genre: Fighting
ESRB Rating: “Teen” for Mild Blood and Violence
Players: 1-2
Description: That’s right, even more Street Fighter. Perhaps they’re trying to make up for no Wii version of Street Fighter IV. Anyways, this is the TurboGrafx16 version that had 12 characters to choose from, a Story mode and the handicap feature for V.S. Battle Mode.

DSiWare

Art Style: Digidrive
Price: 500 Nintendo Points / $5
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Puzzle
ESRB Rating: “Everyone”
Players: 1-2
Description: Another bit Generations gets released in the US as an Art Style game. The name, and gameplay, are still the same. You have to make sure that the correctly organize and guide cars into the correct lanes.

Arcade Bowling
Price: 200 Nintendo Points / $2
Publisher: Skyworks Interactive
Genre: Sports
ESRB Rating: “Everyone”
Players: 1
Description: A skeeball game designed by Activision creator David Crane that has a standard Classic Mode wjere you just roll the balls into the holes and a Progressive Mode where rolling balls into the holes becomes more challenging.

Robot Rescue
Price: 200 Nintendo Points / $2
Publisher: Teyon
Genre: Puzzle
ESRB Rating: “Everyone” for Comic Mischief
Players: 1
Description: Robots have been trapped in 45 computer labyrinths, and you must save them all and set them free. The only problem is, instead of controlling only one of the robots at a time, you’re controlling them all at exactly the same time, and must guide them all safely to the exit.

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