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Punch-Out enters ring May 18

By Tom Magrino, GameSpotPosted Feb 26, 2009 10:40 am PT

Nintendo updates Wii and DS release lists, tagging dates to boxing revamp and New Play Control line; Excitebots, Legendary Starfy announced.

As the publisher is wont to do, Nintendo today rattled off the plethora of games coming to its best-selling hardware in the next few months. Along with reaffirming a number of release windows, the publisher provided more specific dates on a few of its key first-party and third-party titles.

On the Wii, May 18 will see the arrival of Punch-Out, the long-awaited remake of the classic NES boxing game, with Glass Joe getting a current-generation graphical makeover. In June, Sega will deliver two titles that have generated a measure of buzz: High Voltage's first-person shooter The Conduit and Let's Tap, the cardboard-box-based rhythm game from Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka.

Nintendo also attached dates to a number of titles in its New Play Control line, which adds motion controls to classic GameCube games. Namely, both New Play Control Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis are due March 9, with Donkey Kong Jungle Beat following on May 4. The publisher also used the opportunity to announce Excitebots: Trick Racing, a Wii Wheel-compatible racing game that serves as an extension to the Excitebikes and Excite Truck family of racers.

Most notably on the DS, Nintendo said that it would be bringing The Legendary Starfy to the US for the first time on June 8. Developed by Tose, the action platformer was originally released in Japan for the Game Boy Advance in 2002.

Wii
Major League Baseball 2K9 (2K Sports)--March 3
New Play Control! Pikmin (Nintendo)--March 9
New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis (Nintendo)--March 9
M&M's Beach Party (Zoo Games)--March 10
Ready 2 Rumble Revolution (Atari)--March 17
Backyard Baseball '10 (Atari)--March 31
Don King Boxing (2K Sports)--March 31
Puzzle Kingdoms (Zoo Games)--March 31
Trivial Pursuit (EA)--March
MySims Party (EA)--March
DanceDanceRevolution Disney Grooves (Konami)--April 2
Garfield Gets Real (Zoo Games)--April 7
Roogoo Twisted Towers (Southpeak)--April 7
Pennzoil's Build-N-Race: Speed Demons (Zoo Games)--April 14
Excitebots: Trick Racing (Nintendo)--April 20
Jelly Belly Ballistic Beans (Zoo Games)--April 21
Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball (Southpeak)--April 21
Smiley World Island Challenge (Zoo Games)--April 28
Hannah Montana The Movie (Disney)--April
Real Heroes: Firefighter (Conspiracy Games)--April
Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity (Deep Silver)--April
New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Nintendo)--May 4
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus (Aksys Games)--May 12
Punch-Out (Nintendo)--May 18
EA Sports Active (EA)--May 19
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Wheelie Breakers (Konami)--May 19
Fritz Chess (Deep Silver)--May
Virtua Tennis 2009 (Sega)--May
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Activision)--May
Garfield's Pet Force (Zoo Games)--June 9
Let's Tap (Sega)--June
The Conduit (Sega)--June
Tiger Woods PGA Tour '10 (EA)--June
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Activision)--June
Boom Blox Bash Party (EA)--Spring
MotoGP (Capcom)--Spring
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (LucasArts)--Late Spring
EA Sports Tennis (EA)--Summer GI JOE: The Rise of Cobra (EA)--Summer
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (EA)--Summer
Help Wanted (Hudson)--Summer
MySims Racing (EA)--Summer
Overlord Dark Legend (Codemasters)--Summer
Klonoa (Namco Bandai)--Q2

Nintendo DS
MLB 2K9 Fantasy All-Stars (2K Sports)--March 3
Peggle Dual Shot (PopCap)--March 3
Yamaha Supercross (Zoo Games)--March 10
Zubo (EA)--March 10
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Rockstar)--March 17
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (EA)--March 17
History Channel: Great Empires: Rome (Valcon)--March 17
TrackMania DS (Atlus)--March 17
Hands On!: Tangrams (Zoo Games)--March 24
Backyard Baseball '10 (Atari)--March 31
Crazy Chicken Star Karts (MumboJumbo)--March 31
Don King Boxing (2K Sports)--March 31
My Horse and Me Riding For Gold (Atari)--March 31
Puzzle Kingdoms (Zoo Games)--March 31
Tokyo Beat Down (Atlus)--March 31
Littlest Pet Shop: Spring (EA)--March
MySims Party (EA)--March
Pet Vet: Down Under (Deep Silver)--March
Scrabble (EA)--March
Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo)--April 5
Garfield Gets Real (Zoo Games)--April 7
Roogoo Attack (Southpeak)--April 7
The Dark Spire (Atlus)--April 14
Dokapon Journey (Atlus)--April 14
Puffins: Island Adventure (Majesco)--April 14
101-in-1 Explosive Megamix (Atlus)--April 21
Dreamer: Babysitter (DreamCatcher)--April 21
Dreamer: Shop Owner (DreamCatcher)--April 21
Dreamer: Teacher (DreamCatcher)--April 21
Jelly Belly Ballistic Beans (Zoo Games)--April 21
Steal Princess (Atlus)--April 21
Crazy Chicken Atlantis Quest (MumboJumbo)--April 28
Powerbike (Majesco)--April 28
Smiley World Island Challenge (Zoo Games)--April 28
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier (Atlus)--April 28
Desktop Tower Defense (THQ)--April 29
Elite Forces: Unit 77 (Deep Silver)--April
Hannah Montana The Movie (Disney)--April
Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity (Deep Silver)--April
Imagine Makeup Artist (Ubisoft)--May 5
Imagine Music Fest (Ubisoft)--May 5
Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times (Konami)--May 5
Prank'd (DreamCatcher)--May 19
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Stardust Accelerators World Championship 2009 (Konami)--May 19
Personal Trainer: Walking (Nintendo)--May 25
Imagine Boutique Owner (Ubisoft)--May 26
Jake Hunter Detective Chronicles: Memories of the Past (Aksys Games)--May 26
DJ Star (Deep Silver)--May
Drama Queens (Majesco)--May
Fritz Chess (Deep Silver)--May
Horoscope DS (Deep Silver)--May
Hot 'n' Cold (Majesco)--May
The Humans (Deep Silver)--May
Marker Man Adventures (Majesco)--May
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Activision)--May
Crazy Chicken The Pharaoh's Treasure (MumboJumbo)--June 2
Knights in the Nightmare (Atlus)--June 2
My Healthy Cooking Coach (Ubisoft)--June 2
The Legendary Starfy (Nintendo)--June 8
Garfield's Pet Force (Zoo Games)--June 9
Petz Fashion: Dogz and Catz (Ubisoft)--June 9
Jake Power Soccer Club (Ubisoft)--June 16
Rockin' Pretty (Aksys Games)--June 23
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (Atlus)--June 23
7 Wonders II (MumboJumbo)--June 30
Ice Age 3 (Activision)--June 30
Dawn of Heroes (Majesco)--June
Mega Man Starforce 3 Black Ace (Capcom)--June
Mega Man Starforce 3 Red Joker (Capcom)--June
Monster Racers (Koei)--June
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Activision)--June
Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits (Activision/RedOctane)--June
Treasure World (Aspyr Media)--June
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (LucasArts)--Late Spring
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (EA)--Summer
Miami Law (Hudson)--Summer
MySims Racing (EA)--Summer
Overlord Minions (Codemasters)--Summer

160 Comments

  • cool_modine

    Posted Jun 12, 2009 6:44 am PT

    It turned out to be pretty good. Not as stellar as all the reviews say (it only took me 2 days to unlock everything and achieve all medals) but still much better than I had expected.

  • mariokart64fan

    Posted Apr 9, 2009 11:45 am PT

    chess is not boring lol, anf cool modine, nintendos not just rehashing, they have other teams ,
    disaster day of crisis, punchout
    wii sports resort and excitbots trick racing so far, e3 will probably bring new announcments like usual ,

  • cool_modine

    Posted Mar 28, 2009 4:50 am PT

    I seriously hope the end product is more than just this...
    Who decided to ruin punch-out with this half-assed lazy looking garbage? And I'm not referring to the graphics.

  • JackHoleFace00

    Posted Mar 3, 2009 4:52 pm PT

    PS for all of the people saying they're looking forward to "New Play Control!!" games like Pikmin and Donkey Kong Jungle beat, are you kidding? Have you even read the story?? I quote from the above article:

    "[Nintendo's] New Play Control line... adds motion controls to classic GameCube games"

    In other words, these are just re-hashed games from GameCube! Man-o-man... at first it was just 3rd parties making rehashes of games that have been out on other systems (but with worse graphics) such as Dead Rising, but now even Nintendo themselves are rehashing games!

    Everyone should be disgusted. If Nintendo is that LAZY and doesn't want to make NEW games, why wouldn't they just release a motion control system for the GameCube instead of making people shell out hundreds of dollars for a system and accessories?! And what about the people who already owned those games for GC who'll have to re-purchase it just for the controls (even though other things like graphics will be virtually the same)? Oh right, money.
    It's sickening.

  • rattamierda

    Posted Mar 3, 2009 7:32 am PT

    Its so good to see Punch Out, that will be one of the best for the wii (i hope so), and about the long long list of the wii games, we see a lot of "new control..." nice nintendo you are going to release games previosly releleased for the NGC, but in the list we see maybe 2 or 3 good games, as the conduit, and the others, dance dance revolution?? garfield??? hanna montana??? (she is hot but not for the games or the tv show) fritz chess????????????????????? we are going to play chess with the wii mote??????????????????????????????? thats absoluty stupid, its a shame that i see in the list a chess game, i like the chess, but chess for wii?????? the wii has the best control of all the consoles, you can do everything, but chess???????? i am loosing like a 100 bucks of the wiimote for a stupid chess game, men, that absoluty sucks

  • Belgium_1830

    Posted Mar 2, 2009 9:51 am PT

    alottogames

  • zaveline

    Posted Mar 2, 2009 6:10 am PT

    Oh Damn Thats Alot Of Games But Hannah Montanna The Movie Game That is going to be total Crap!

  • Rekunta

    Posted Mar 2, 2009 1:38 am PT

    Boy oh boy......I can just hear myself already:

    "No, JAB not uppercut!!! Now hook!! Uppercut again ^%#&@*%#!!!!""

    *throws controller in corner*

  • lanmanna

    Posted Mar 1, 2009 8:38 pm PT

    Oops I forgot Boom Blox 2. And you guys DO know this is a list only for March-June? Go complain about the PSP. It is worse off than all the systems combined.

  • lanmanna

    Posted Mar 1, 2009 8:34 pm PT

    Sooooo much goodness on the list.

    Punch-Out
    Excite-Bots
    Klonoa
    The Conduit
    Ready 2 Rumble
    New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
    Starfy

  • godzillavskong

    Posted Mar 1, 2009 4:54 pm PT

    This game might make me shell out the $$ for a Wii. I mainly want one for their first party games like Metroid, Zelda, and Mario. Spend 249 for a Wii or buy my girlfriend a birthday present? Ah, I'll buy her the Wii.

  • fatooosh

    Posted Feb 28, 2009 11:24 pm PT

    release 6/16

  • gameking5000

    Posted Feb 28, 2009 9:59 pm PT

    You can't say anything about a game unless you try it. One game that was problary lowest selling and all of you thought was bad got a Gamespot award, it was also rated 9.5.

  • Hoodstock

    Posted Feb 28, 2009 12:58 pm PT

    Thank god for Call of Duty: World at War. I only care about the Wii list and after looking at it the only game I will buy is The Conduit. - it better not suck!

    By the way, who do you fight at the end of Punch Out if it isn't Mike Tyson? That will be the only suprise of the game.

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Feb 28, 2009 12:14 pm PT

    After looking at that list I am so glad that the Wii isn't my only console.

  • abvance

    Posted Feb 28, 2009 7:57 am PT

    Peggle on the DS!

  • tasthomas

    Posted Feb 28, 2009 7:47 am PT

    Zelda? Metroid? Advance Wars? Why the overload of sports and racing games?

  • amaneuvering

    Posted Feb 28, 2009 2:45 am PT

    Punch-Out
    The Conduit

    Those ^^^^ are the only games on that list I'm really interested in.

    Let's Tap
    Boom Blox Bash Party

    Those ^^^^ I'm curioius about.

    That's not a lot to get excited about. It's funny that I'm looking forward to playing New Play Control Pikmin 2 more than most Wii games. Pretty telling really.

  • Leonagard

    Posted Feb 27, 2009 9:46 pm PT

    I have to agree that the Wii this time is going downhill too the abyss ... I'd like to say it is the revolution but my hopes are gone... im predicting that this is the last year of wii... mine is just a pile of dust and im using the wiimote on PC!!! lol to play MAME!!!!! lot better!!... im a gamer regartless of witch title hardcore softcore core boring thing... but I still have some kind of hope... after that ill just throw it away forever and buy a ps3 becouse of bluerays movies... darnit...

  • Atari_7200

    Posted Feb 27, 2009 7:22 pm PT

    Oh gee wiz! Mommy, can you buy me "petz fashion:dogz and catz" and "Jelly Belly Ballistic Beans" please please please! *sigh* Who would buy these and actually enjoy them for more then 1 hour? The only one I would RENT on this list is Punch-out. You got to love this one, " Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball - (WII)." What kind of retarded monkeys they got making this crap? What ever happened to a little thing I like to call quality? If games like this just keep popping up, we're gonna have another "video game crash".

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