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This week’s VC update brings us one of Nintendo’s premiere games of all time, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I can still remember how in awe I was when I played through this game for the first time. You were Link, and you were exploring his world with him in your grand quest [...]

Hey guys, we are back with WiiSpot episode #004! Hot on the heels of the WiiVCdb.com announcement, we are here to bring you all sorts of great info on yours and our favorite console, the Wii.
In this packed episode of the WiiSpot podcast we talk about Guitar Hero!, muse about a couple of game announcements [...]

 

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This week’s VC update brings us 4 new titles to the Virtual Console. First up is Donkey Kong Country, this Rareware title made a huge splash due to it’s use of raytraced sprites instead of the more common flat pixel art based ones. People ooh’d and ahhh’d at the graphics, although the effect was a [...]

The Button Mashers Network is proud to announce the launch of our new website, The Wii Virtual Console Database! The WiiVCdb is a one stop shop for all the info about Nintendo’s Virtual Console! WiiVCdb.com brings you info on all the released US Virtual Console titles including screenshots. We also provide you with links to [...]

Well Nintendo has gone ahead and Officially Confirmed that which was mentioned would happen. Super Paper Mario will hit North American stores on April 9th, 2007. I for one let out a huge cry of WOOT! at this confirmation, as any new Mario is some good Mario. By the looks of the Press [...]

We are here with WiiSpot podcast episode #3! This episode is out a few days later then planned due to some strange recording issues, but it’s worth the wait. In this hour lng episode we chat a fair bit about the Konami Gamers Day announcements, a couple of cool mods for the Wii, a program [...]

 

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This week’s Virtual Console update brings up 3 classic titles from the Nintendo Entertainment System, Kirby’s Adventure, Ice Climbers and Kid Icarus!! Talk about an all star lineup! One interesting thing to note is that both Kirby and Kid Icarus have been announced as characters in Super Smash Brothers Brawl, and the Ice Climbers were [...]

Here is another fact sheet from the folks over at Go Nintendo, this one providing information on Wii Play:
Wii Play
Format: Wii
Launch Date: 02/14/07
ESRB: E (Everyone): Mild Cartoon Violence
Game Type: Minigame Collection – package includes Wii Remote
Players: 1-2
Developer: Nintendo
KEY INFORMATION
Wii Play includes nine quick and addictive games that are easy to pick up and play and [...]

The folks over at Go Nintendo have been kind enough to put up fact sheets on a couple of games that I thought might interest our readers as well. The following information comes direct from the Nintendo Press Room:
Mario Party 8
Format: Wii
Launch Date: Q2
ESRB: E (Everyone): Mild Cartoon Violence
Game Type: Party/Board Game
Players: 1-4
Developer: Hudson [...]

The folks over at Opera are looking for feedback on the initial version of Opera that was released as the browser for the Wii. It makes sense that they’d want to hunt out all the bugs and get them all fixed before the full version is eventually released by Nintendo.
The only way to put [...]

About a week-and-a-half ago I posted an article on how to go about making your very own Wii Laptop, as outlined by Edgadget. Somehow, I managed to miss the release of Part 2 of the instructions and now, lo-and-behold… I see Part 3 has been released.
As with before, the instructions are incredibly [...]

I don’t really find this announcement all that surprising, given the games that already exist for the Wii. It seems the developers are rather enjoying having gamers use the WiiMote as a sword, a la RedSteel, and Twilight Princess, and Pronto Games is apparently no different.
There is an article over at Zorro.com [...]

And the hits just keep on coming! Nintendo has just announced today’s Virtual Console titles, and the offerings contain one particular title that is sure to give you all a nice OMG moment… Super Mario World! Nintendo has been bringing the hits these last few weeks, something that I’m very happy with. The games that [...]

Okay, so I’ve never actually played a Dance Dance Revolution game using the actual dance mat, I’ve only gone about the cheap and lazy way of hitting controller buttons… but I must say that I’m definitely intrigued about the idea of having a title in the series come out for the Wii.
Yesterday, Konami announced that [...]

Welcome to the WiiSpot Podcast Episode #2. We had a fair bit to talk about, so you are getting this episode very soon after episode #1! We also anounce something pretty big in this episode, so we couldn’t wait.
In this episode we talk about the Wii Laptop, The News Channel, new game release dates for [...]

 

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