New Downloadable Games Prove Anyone Can be Crowned King

April 12, 2010

New Downloadable Games Prove Anyone Can be Crowned King

Have you ever wanted to be a king? Maybe the king of Los Angeles? The new
Nintendo DSiWare game Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A. gives you a shot at becoming
Southern California royalty. Over on the Virtual Console service, old-school
gamers will, like, totally love the chance to become king of the ’80s with the
gnarly original arcade version of Zaxxon available for download.

Meanwhile, Nintendo’s WarioWare: D.I.Y. “Big Name Games” series continues
with a new downloadable microgame created by top game designer Alex Neuse of
Gaijin Games. Neuse is the designer behind the BIT.TRIP series, which is
available exclusively on the WiiWare service. He believes meaningful experiences
can be delivered through a minimalist design approach. In his WarioWare: D.I.Y.
game, Fire Bad!, you’ll get a hint at CommanderVideo’s next adventure. New “Big
Name Games” will be added every Monday through July 26, all available to
download for zero Nintendo DSi Points to anyone with broadband Internet access
and a copy of either WarioWare: D.I.Y. for the Nintendo DS family of systems or
WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase software for the WiiWare service. Visit the Nintendo
Channel on your Wii system today to learn more about these games and to see a
video of Neuse discussing Fire Bad!

Nintendo DSiWare

Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A.
Publisher: Gameloft
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Suggestive Themes, Tobacco Reference, Violence
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points

Description: Move to the West Coast and immerse yourself in Los Angeles gang
life with Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A. Complete 75 different missions that combine
the best of action games and driving games.

  • Explore Los Angeles and its famous neighborhoods, including Hollywood,
    Beverly Hills, downtown, the suburbs and the harbor.

  • A unique feeling of freedom: Drive or walk anywhere in massive, open
    environments. Feel free to complete missions at your own pace, or just do
    absolutely anything you want.

  • A thrilling storyline with flashbacks and unexpected developments: Go from
    rags to riches, connect with relatives and help out their gang until you’re
    living the golden life.

  • Improved driving experience: Drive cars, quads, motorcycles and use the
    environment to perform unbelievable stunts.

  • Use the inner camera or outer camera to decrease your wanted status, take
    a new photo of your face and fake your ID card to remain incognito.

AlphaBounce
Publisher: Mad Monkey Studios
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Drug Reference, Violent References
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: AlphaBounce combines the classical brick-breaking concept with
strong RPG features, offering you the chance to explore an endless universe with
millions of levels. Discover items hidden in the deepest corners of the galaxy.
Use these items to modify your spaceship and improve your firepower. You have
been taken prisoner by an evil intergalactic mining corporation and exiled to
outer space. With the help of your spaceship, your mission is to blast your way
through the bricks in order to find a way back to Earth.

7 Card Games
Publisher: cerasus.media
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Simulated Gambling
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Who has the best hand? Take a seat, have a drink and get started:
Keep a straight face during poker while you wager the bluff of your life. Put it
all on one hit in Black Jack – and take the jackpot. You choose the number of
opponents. Prefer something quieter? Then try a Solitaire game like Freecell or
Klondike. Whether you prefer a quick round here and there or fun for the entire
evening, now you can always have your favorite card games right at your
fingertips. The detailed graphics and authentic atmosphere will wow you.

AiRace
Publisher: QubicGames
Players: 1-6
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Fantasy Violence
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: AiRace is a high-octane, adrenaline-fueled air, speed and stunt
game for the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL systems. AiRace is not your
typical hand-held racing – it’s high-sky racing at its best. There are no limits
to your flight with 360 movement and unique steering with the Nintendo DSi
stylus. AiRace offers you a chance to control one of nine planes and compete
against AI or human opponents in six exotic locations. With great physics, plane
upgrades, on-the-track power-ups and unique maps, AiRace offers a little bit
more than your average racing. Now it’s time to leave your cars and switch to
airplanes.

WiiWare

Military Madness: Nectaris
Publisher: Hudson Entertainment
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E 10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Mild Fantasy Violence
Price: 1,000 Wii Points
Description: The Military is back for a new generation of recruits. The classic
turn-based strategy series Military Madness, aka Nectaris, is exploding onto the
WiiWare service. With a new graphical barrage, a new commander unit, online team
and vs. multiplayer modes, and a platoon of other new features, this is the
maddest game in the series yet.

  • 4-Person Online Multiplayer: Coordinate strategies or taunt foes in team
    or vs. multiplayer modes for up to four people.

  • A new unit – Commanders: Choose a commander to lead your forces in
    multiplayer and choose from 20 unique abilities.

  • Multiple command views: Plan out strategy in the overhead map view and
    watch glorious battles unfold with cinematic camera action.

  • Detailed stat-tracking leaderboards: Increase your rank as you march up
    the leaderboards on your mission to prove you’re the top general around.

Virtual Console

Zaxxon
Original platform: Arcade
Publisher: SEGA
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Fantasy Violence
Price: 800 Wii Points
Description: Travel back to a time when a lovable alien phoned home, gas cost a
mere 90 cents a gallon and everyone was wearing high-tops, leg warmers and had
big hair. This was the early ’80s, and this was when video gamers nationwide
were wowed by the cutting-edge graphics and sound effects of the first
three-dimensional-like intergalactic arcade shooter: Zaxxon. Touted as the first
game to put video display in perspective, Zaxxon featured “looks” and “sounds”
like actual aircraft flight, allowing players to command their ship just like a
real fighter pilot. Dive, bank, fly left and right, and up and down – Zaxxon had
it all. Fly through heavily armored space fortresses while strafing fuel tanks,
dodging walls and blowing up enemy missiles and gunnery. This game is littered
with explosions. Then take the fight to the enemy fighter fleet and destroy the
aggressor ships with extreme prejudice. Blasting pixels has never been so fun.

Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel at
9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem
Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be
purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the
Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card can be purchased at retail locations.
All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo
DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be
divided between the two systems.