NintendoWare Weekly: Cave Story, Cave Story

By JC Fletcher
Another relatively awesome week for DSiWare, WiiWare and, yes, even Virtual Console, as Cave Story arrives in both portable form on DSiWare and demo form on WiiWare. DSiWare also features a port of Two Tribes' Mac/iPhone puzzle game Frenzic. The Virtual Console offers the wonderful Neo Geo puzzler Magical Drop 2.%Gallery-108408%
WiiWare
  • Airport Mania: First Flight (Lemon Games, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points): Land planes, then repair and upgrade them while on the ground.
  • Demo: Cave Story (Nicalis, 1 player, 0 Wii Points): Try the WiiWare remake of the indie hit for yourself!
  • HB Arcade Disc Golf (HB Studios Multimedia, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points): A disc golf simulation with multiple styles of disc and multiple throwing techniques.

Virtual Console

  • Magical Drop 2 (Neo Geo, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points): Pull balloons down, then toss them back up to line up vertical rows of three or more in this arcade classic.

DSiWare

  • Cave Story (Nicalis, 1 player, 1,000 DSi Points): Save the Mimiga Village from the Doctor as a mysterious amnesiac with a Polar Star gun.
  • Frenzic (Two Tribes, 1 player, 200 DSi Points): Place "pie pieces" in appropriate spots to fill same-color circles.
  • Spot It! Challenge (Big John Games, 1-4 players, 200 DSi Points): Find hidden objects in ten puzzles.

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