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European Nintendo downloads: Protothea finally arrives for some reason
We have a message to deliver to our European friends from the distant past: don't buy Protöthea. We had pretty much forgotten about this shooter, released soon after the North American launch of WiiWare, until Ubisoft inexplicably dusted it off for European release. There were much better shmups on the Wii a year ago, and there are only more now. Happily, there are also more arcade games now, like the wonderful Shinobi! Shinobi (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points) PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 800 Wii Points) Protöthea (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points) A Little Bit of... Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points) Combat of Giants: Dragons - Bronze Edition (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points) %Gallery-22560%
NintendoWare Weekly: Picturebook Games, Revenge of Shinobi
Today's highlight is no doubt Revenge of Shinobi, the first Shinobi game on the Sega Genesis. What's funny about this is that the third game in the series on that console, Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master, was released on the Wii way back in 2007. Two-thousand-and-freaking-seven, people! How crazy is that? More after the break.
NintendoWare Weekly: NyxQuest, Super Star Wars, Brain Age Express
This week starts an initiative to bring classic LucasArts titles to the Virtual Console for the next month. Today, Super Star Wars for the SNES is available, however Nintendo also promises its sequels, Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, in the coming weeks. Considering these are among the top Star Wars experiences out there, you can bet we're pretty pumped. It feels kind of like when you bullseye a womp rat in your T-16!%Gallery-69468%
