Excitebike, Voting Come to Wii
Now there are more than fifty classics to choose from.
One of the problems facing Nintendo and other publishers releasing their wares on the Wii Shop is how to know which of the thousands of games to pick from each week. But sometimes a week comes along that makes the decision a bit easier.
To celebrate - or cash in, if you want to be cynical - on this week's release of Excite Truck on the Wii Nintendo has tapped NES classic Excitebike (NES, 500 Wii Points) to ascend to the Wii Shop.
There it will join the rest of this week's line-up which includes pink-powered Kirby's Adventure (NES, 500 Wii Points), horizontal shooter R-Type III: Third Lightning (SNES, 800 Wii Points) and Hudson's New Adventure Island (Turbografx, 600 Wii Points).
Further poking around in the Wii's online bits will reveal a new channel that went up this week.
The Everybody Votes Channel does what it says on the label, asking you to weigh in on a range of topics, from "whether people believe in aliens to what they would do if they had 1 million Euros", according to Nintendo's Laurent Fischer.
Deep.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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