May 16, 2013
This week's Nintendo Download includes the following featured
content:
Virtual Console™ on Wii U™ Sale
Save 50 Percent on Super Mario Bros.™ 2
for Wii U – We're celebrating spring with a sale on classic
favorites for Wii U. Starting today, save 50 percent on Super Mario
Bros. 2 when you buy the Wii U Virtual Console™ version of Super
Mario World™ from the Nintendo eShop. This offer ends at 9 a.m. PT
on May 23.
Virtual Console on Wii U – New Releases
Super Metroid™ – Super Metroid was originally released in 1994
for the Super NES™ system and features beautiful graphics, a huge
assortment of enemies and various worlds to explore. Considered one of
the best video games of all time by critics and fans alike, the
side-view action game introduces a host of powerful weapons and items
to the Metroid™ series. Super Metroid is the fifth game released on the
Virtual Console for Wii U to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the
Famicom. For a limited time, the game will be available for only 30
cents.
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts™ – The third game in the legendary Ghosts 'n
Goblins series of video games, Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
follows Arthur in a challenging quest to rescue the princess. Players
take control of Arthur in a classic side-scrolling adventure to defeat
the creatures of the night and save the day once more.
Super Mario Bros. 2 – Mario™, Luigi™, Princess
Toadstool and Toad™ embark on a quest together to save the day against
the villainous Wart. Pick up items and throw them at your adversaries
to clear levels in seven fantastical worlds. Each character has a
unique set of abilities: Luigi can jump higher and farther than any of
the other characters, Toad can dig extremely fast and pull items out of
the ground quicker than anyone and the princess is the only one who can
jump and hover temporarily.
Nintendo eShop on Wii U™ - New Release
LEGO® Batman 2™: DC Super Heroes
– Batman and Robin team up with some truly super friends in this
action-packed sequel. Experience one of the best-selling games of 2012
with new and enhanced game play using the Wii U GamePad controller.
With help from other famous DC Super Heroes, including Superman, Wonder
Woman and Green Lantern, the Dynamic Duo are in for a fight to put the
notorious villains Lex Luthor and The Joker behind bars and save Gotham
City. LEGO® Batman 2™: DC Super Heroes will release
on May 21.
Nintendo eShop on Wii U Sale
BIT.TRIP Presents… Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm
Alien – Runner2 is an action-packed, auto-running
platformer with five exciting worlds, 125 tantalizing levels and five
death-defying boss battles. BIT.TRIP Presents… Runner2: Future
Legend of Rhythm Alien will be on sale for 25 percent off until
May 30.
Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS™ - New Release
Swords & Soldiers 3D – Prepare for an
encounter with a freakishly large pepper: Swords & Soldiers 3D
is coming your way! Swords & Soldiers is a 3D
side-scrolling, real-time strategy game that lets you control an entire
army and wield devastating magical abilities.
Also new this week:
• Resident Evil® Revelations (Nintendo eShop
on Wii U)
• Mega Man™ 5 (Virtual Console on Nintendo 3DS)
• Harvest Moon® (Virtual Console on Nintendo 3DS)
• THE STARSHIP DAMREY™ (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Bowling Bonanza 3D (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo
3DS)
• Dress To Play: Magic Bubbles! (Nintendo eShop
on Nintendo 3DS)
• California Super Sports (Nintendo eShop on
Nintendo 3DS / DSiWare™ on Nintendo DSi™)
• THE KING OF FIGHTERS '99 (Virtual Console on
Wii™)
To view this week's Nintendo Download in its full graphical version,
please visit: http://news2know.net/nintendo/downloadbBe4yL32.php.
In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also
offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their
systems. Nintendo adds new titles weekly to the Nintendo eShop for the
Wii U system as well as the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL systems,
to the Nintendo DSi™ Shop for the Nintendo DSi system and to the Wii™
Shop Channel for the Wii console.
The Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service and features games,
applications and videos. Users can add money to their account balance
by using a credit card or by purchasing a Nintendo Prepaid Card at a
retail store and entering the code from the card. All funds from one
card must be redeemed in either the Wii U eShop or the Nintendo 3DS
eShop, respectively. They are not transferable and cannot be divided
between the two systems.
The Wii Shop Channel offers games and applications and uses Wii
Points™, which can be purchased via the Wii Shop Channel. The Nintendo
DSi Shop offers games and applications and uses Nintendo DSi Points™,
which can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Wii Points Card™ and
Nintendo DSi Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. All
points from one card must be redeemed in either the Wii Shop Channel or
the Nintendo DSi Shop, respectively. They are not transferable and
cannot be divided between the two systems.
Remember that Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL and Nintendo
DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage some of the
content their children can access. For more information about this and
other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu, http://www.nintendo.com/wii,
http://www.nintendo.com/3ds
or http://www.nintendo.com/ds.
