May continues with a Nintendo Download that's light on quantity of content, but big on quality. Three Kirby titles land on the Wii U Virtual Console, and if you buy two, you get the third free! Three games arrive on the 3DS eShop, including the anticipated Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D on May 24, and there's a 20% sale on The DENPA Men: They Came By Wave. Be sure to check out your favorite digital storefront today (May 23, 2013) for all of this week's Nintendo updates.

Wii U eShop

Virtual Console

Kirby's Dream Course (Super Nintendo) - Nintendo, $7.99

Kirby's Dream Land 3 (Super Nintendo) - Nintendo, $7.99

Kirby Super Star (Super Nintendo) - Nintendo, $7.99

3DS eShop

Retail Games

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D - Nintendo (available May 24)

NARUTO Powerful Shippuden - Namco Bandai

eShop Games

Groove Heaven - Teyon, $3.99

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ludist210 said:

@Zero

Fun! Fun! Minigolf Touch wasn't bad. Shin'en developed it.

And sadly Zero missed the sale by a week and a half.

Posted by

Guillaume

on: 05/25/13, 00:27

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05/25/13, 00:28

Haha, I like Nate's endorsement of Dream Course and Guillaume's response to next week's selection.

I have Dream Course on the Wii VC and I just can't get the hang of its gameplay, try as I might. I think as far as non-traditional Kirby goes, Canvas Curse, Epic Yarn, Air Ride, and Mass Attack are probably my picks, while Super Star, Adventure, and RtDL are choice traditional games.

Posted by

TriforceBun

on: 05/25/13, 00:38

@TriforceBun Dream Course could definitely be more intuitive. But once you get the hang of it, it's so good. Easiliy my favorite Kirby spinoff and definitely in my top 5 SNES games, maybe even above Super Star.

Posted by

nate38

on: 05/25/13, 06:47

@TriforceBun
Tilt and Tumbllllllle.

Posted by

Anand

on: 05/29/13, 04:15

@Anand I wish I had a GBA SP so I could play Tilt 'n Tumble with a backlight. I tried once on a GBC and couldn't see a thing. The GBA/GCN Tilt 'n Tumble tech demo also looked really neat...too bad nothing came of that.

Posted by

nate38

on: 05/29/13, 04:23

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05/29/13, 04:23

@nate38

You can't play Tilt n' Tumble on an SP, the controls are reversed.

Posted by

Guillaume

on: 05/29/13, 04:24

@nate38
I kept my OG GBA specifically to play Tilt and Tumble. (But you can still play it upside down on the SP/DS/DS Lite.)

Actually, I wonder how hard it would be to just flip the mercury switch over...

If I were a game journalist, I would fucking grill Nintendo at every press event about Tilt'n'Tumble 2 and Roll-o-Rama. It's just getting more and more appropriate!

Gui, grill them in my stead.

Posted by

Anand

on: 05/29/13, 04:29

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05/29/13, 04:29

@nate38

I certainly agree. I downloaded the game on Wii when it released (even though my SNES copy is around here somewhere), and it took me a bit to get the hang of it again. However, once I did I was hooked. It is, so good! Though, for nostalgic reasons, I think Kirby's Pinball Land gets my vote for the best Kirby spinoff. Dream Coarse, though, is probably the best and most curious one, as it's one I never would have thought of, but one that works so well.

Posted by

NoName

on: 05/29/13, 04:31

@nate38 With creative use of the GameCube handle, you could play the game on a Game Boy Player!

@Guillaume You can actually get around this problem if you use an Action Replay or GameShark, as the cartridge slot on these devices is the right side up.

Posted by

Mop it up

on: 05/29/13, 05:54

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05/29/13, 06:00

@nate38
I actually preferred the reflective TFT screens to the backlit ones. Those screens showed BRILLIANT, VIVID colour when you played outside, like while riding on the bus during the day.

Now, with the trend being towards more backlit screens, I can't play my portable system unless I'm hiding from the sun like a vampire, as any light hitting the screen washes out the graphics, making me say "They might as well have made this for the Wii[U] instead!"

Posted by

Dark Weres

on: 05/30/13, 02:18

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05/30/13, 02:20