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Kirby returns to Wii VC

By Polybren, GameSpotPosted Jan 5, 2009 5:22 pm PT

As has become a Monday tradition, Nintendo and Microsoft announced their weekly downloadable releases today, headlined by a 16-bit outing for the former company's rotund mascot Kirby. Originally released on the Super Nintendo in 1998, Kirby's Dream Land 3 took the original Game Boy series of...

As has become a Monday tradition, Nintendo and Microsoft announced their weekly downloadable releases today, headlined by a 16-bit outing for the former company's rotund mascot Kirby.

Originally released on the Super Nintendo in 1998, Kirby's Dream Land 3 took the original Game Boy series of platformers to home consoles. The game expands on the series' core mechanic of swallowing enemies to gain their powers, and it includes a second playable character, Gooey, as well as a cooperative multiplayer mode to match. Kirby's Dream Land 3 sells for 800 Wii points, or $8.

This week's WiiWare release is Konami's Sandy Beach, which lets players build--and of course defend--towering sand castles. One or two gamers place cannons strategically throughout their castle compounds to stave off encroaching crabs. In-between waves, players use a metal detector to comb the beach for booty and extra artillery. Sandy Beach sells for 500 Wii points ($5).

Finally, Microsoft announced its Xbox Live Arcade release of the week, Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos (pictured). A seek-and-find puzzle game, Interpol has players canvassing the globe in search of a fugitive who shares his name with an obscure NES game from Pony Canyon. Developed by TikGames (creator of XBLA games such as Texas Hold 'Em and Domino Master), Interpol will launch on the service Wednesday with an 800 Microsoft point ($10) price tag.

56 Comments

  • ilikepiedude077

    Posted Jan 8, 2009 4:13 pm PT

    HAHAHA HERES A MESSAGE,...DMN U ALL do u understand it? hahahaha

  • Theaterguy916

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 11:40 pm PT

    Super Mario World for SNES is already available. Its been out for a long time now. Glad to finally see this out tho.

  • V_Angelo

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 9:19 pm PT

    Finally Kirby that's a BAMFing game. I hope they get Super Mario World for Super Nintendo up soon.

  • GameBeaten

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 8:36 pm PT

    Holy crap, Kirby's Dreamland 3? I've been waiting years to play that!

  • Media_Mind

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 8:22 pm PT

    good, I guess

  • DragonxanderPR

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 5:43 pm PT

    I feel kind of dissapointed. I'd rather expected a full Kirby videogame available offline when I read the title. Hope Nintendo doesn't stay with Kirby downloadable games, and that soon enough (maybe late 2009 or early 2010) there would be a complete Kirby videogame for the Wii.

  • ilikepiedude077

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 4:41 pm PT

    SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP

  • ilikepiedude077

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 4:39 pm PT

    QQQQQQQQQQQWWWoooooohooooo!

  • ilikepiedude077

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 4:37 pm PT

    NO REALY U FREAKIN SUUUUUUCK! I FREAKIN HATE U,U GAYWOD UR STUPID U SUCK AND UR AN IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P>S> i'm talkin about jtthegame316 shoud not be offensive 2 anyone else if it is then ..........GO FAINT AND FORGET ALL ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok?

  • ilikepiedude077

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 4:31 pm PT

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

  • ilikepiedude077

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 4:30 pm PT

    OMG! u think KIRBY is CRAPY! u suck

  • jtthegame316

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 3:08 pm PT

    kirby that has got to be one of the crapest characters ever.

  • WARLOCK234

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 3:00 pm PT

    yess,the little pink guy's back!!!

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 1:03 pm PT

    Not bad at all sounds like good games

  • Rect_Pola

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 10:25 am PT

    That's super and all, but I wish they'd do a new console game. Not that they'll see any reason to. They upload old IPs for the next 20 years at a fraction of actual development. I don't know how small a fraction the costs are to actual development, but these things are surely printing money.

  • MrHatnClogs

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 10:12 am PT

    I don't need it on the VC, I bought it this Christmas at a store in my mall that sold Retro Games

  • mjc0961

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 9:13 am PT

    "@motherboop

    Or Kirby SuperStar =D"

    It's called Kirby Super Star Ultra, for the Nintendo DS. You'd better get that, because Nintendo isn't going to release the original on VC and lose sales of the DS version.

  • nini200

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 9:11 am PT

    @tyzwain

    I was thinking the same thing.

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