NintendoWare Weekly: Mario Party 2, Frobot

By JC Fletcher
Gather up all your extra Classic Controllers and GameCube controllers. They are about to get seriously ruined, thanks to the arrival of Mario Party 2 on Virtual Console — the first Nintendo-published Virtual Console game to arrive since June. If Nintendo 64 minigame collections aren't your thing, you can download Frobot on WiiWare, a top-down Zelda-style action game, with robots. And disco.

DSiWare gets Dragon's Lair 2, almost a year to the day after the first Dragon's Lair hit the service ... and a month after Dragon's Lair arrived on DS cartridge.
WiiWare

  • Frobot (Fugazo, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points): Take on the Man as a dancing, funky robot with disco-inspired weapons.
  • Demo: Frobot (Fugazo, 1-4 players, 0 Wii Points): Try on the Fro for free.
  • Inkub (Cosmonaut Games, 1 player, 500 Wii Points): Use various heavy weapons to prevent bacteria and other organisms from attacking incubators full of eggs.

Virtual Console

  • Mario Party 2 (N64, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points): Compete with your friends on five different "Adventure Boards" including Pirate Land, Western Land, and Horror Land.

DSiWare

  • Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp (Digital Leisure, 1 player, 800 DSi Points): Search for Princess Daphne using a faulty time machine.
  • Cosmo Fighters (Abylight, 1-4 players, 500 DSi Points): Combo-based competitive fighting for up to four players. You can send out a Download Play demo for multiplayer.
  • Paul's Monster Adventure (Agetec, 1 player, 500 DSi Points): Bring food to the starving "bosses" of a monster land, while fighting off ... other monsters ... with a hammer.
  • Just Sing! Christmas Vol. 2 (Publisher, player, DSi Points): Gather your family around your DS for some carolin'.

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