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Nintendo Download (NDSi/3DS/Wii) Thursday, January 12, 2012

by Rainier on Jan. 12, 2012 @ 6:19 p.m. PST

Nintendo manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii, NDS, 3DS, and Wii U systems. Since 1983, when it launched the NES, Nintendo has sold more than 3.1 billion video games and more than 526 million hardware units globally, including the Wii, Wii U, NDS, 3DS, as well as the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, SNES, N64 and GameCube systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, Zelda and Pokémon.

Note: Some demo versions do not support all game features, and players cannot save their in-game progress in demo versions.

WiiWare

Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math: The Case of the Crumbling Cathedral (The Learning Company/600 Wii Points)

Bad news, detective! There’s trouble in Moscow, Russia. St Basil’s Cathedral has disintegrated! All that’s left is a giant pile of sand.

The Chief wants ACME’s best agent on this case, and that means you, detective. Get to Moscow fast and find out what’s going on before any more monuments turn into giant sand castles.

Carmen Sandiego is back and only you can foil her V.I.L.E plans. Travel the globe, solve brain-twisting math puzzles, and catch the villain behind the Crumbling Cathedral.

Crack the case of the Crumbling Cathedral in single-player Story Mode. Perfect your math skills in single-player Practice Mode. Challenge your friends and family to solve math puzzles against the clock in Multiplayer Mode.

In Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math, you practice your math skills and use them to fight crime. Ideal for grades 4–5, math topics include arithmetic, logic puzzles, fractions and much more!

Features

  • Travel the world, solve math puzzles and fight crime!
  • Challenge friends to math duels against the clock
  • Aligned to grade 4 and 5 Math Common Core Standards
  • Math topics include geometry, fractions, and many more!

No. of Players: 1 player

Nintendo DSiWare/3DS eShop

Zen Pinball 3D (Zen Studios/$6.99/eShop/3DS)

Zen Pinball for Nintendo 3DS brings an incredible stereoscopic 3D experience to the acclaimed video game pinball series for the first time ever.

Featuring four beautifully crafted, original tables, Zen Pinball features the most advanced ball physics in a video pinball game to date, online leader boards ranking you against other players, in-game friend challenges, interactive 3D models, and more!

Features

  • Earth Defense pits the player against hordes of hostile aliens as they try to take the planet by storm!
  • Players will experience life as a novice sorcerer who must master the trade of summoning spectacular natural phenomena in Shaman.
  • Travel back to the middle ages to the Kingdom of Camelot and become a Knight of the Round Table in Excalibur.
  • Experience the unexplored jungles of Eldorado as you hunt for hidden treasures and uncover the mysteries of ancient civilization.

Zen Pinball for Nintendo 3DS is the definitive pinball experience on portable game consoles.

To enjoy the 3D effect of Nintendo 3DS software, you must experience it from the system itself. All screenshots and videos on this website have been captured in 2D mode.
Use Parental Controls to restrict 3D mode for children 6 and under.

No. of Players: up to 4 players

Hip Hop King: Rytmik Edition (CINEMAX/$7.99/DSiWare/eShop/3DS)

Hip Hop King is an application for creating rhythmical and melodic themes and for composing whole songs.

Its user interface blends the fast and well-arranged interface of classic drum machines with flexible pattern interface of popular trackers and with modern sound library. It contains more than 170 carefully selected sound samples of drums, percussions, bass, melodic instruments and gramophone scratches.

With Hip Hop King you can quickly and easily create the basic building stone – an audio clip. It consists of musical notations for up to four instruments that you may transpose, select their location in the stereo field, and modify their volume, reverse, shuffle (rhythm twist) and polyphony (with extended polyphony handling), chorus/widening stereo effect and echo. You may arbitrarily combine up to 128 such clips in four tracks and create complex pieces of music.

Hip Hop King is not only for playing with sounds; in the hands of a skilful musician it can become a serious musical instrument – surprisingly powerful pocket music station. For the best musical experience we recommend connecting headphones or quality speaker system. You’ll become the Hip Hop King of the party in no time…

Features

  • Pocket music station
  • Library of more than 170 sound samples

No. of Players: 1 player

101 Pinball World (Selectsoft/$4.99/eShop/DSiWare)

Get ready for fast-paced pinball action with a twist!

Complete special objectives to earn fun bonuses as you shoot your ball through pipes, up ramps and around mind-blowing obstacles. Choose from 2 game modes, Quick Play and Random, and blast through over 100 fun tables on 4 exciting worlds filled with eye-popping details. Be a pinball wiz in Wizard World, go on a galactic adventure in Alien Spaceship, enjoy a spooky trip through Halloween and become a buccaneer in Pirate's Bay. Rack up enough points to top the High Scores and you'll be the pinball champ.

Features

  • 101 amazing tables in 4 unique worlds
  • 3 player profiles and High Scores list
  • Classic pinball gameplay enhanced with beautiful graphics
  • Multiple special objectives earn extra points and power-ups
  • Fun bonuses include table tilt, slow ball and immunity

No. of Players: 1 player

Kirby: Right Back At Ya! Vol. 1 (available Jan. 14 at 3 p.m. PT)

Kirby's ready for action in part one of this special, two-part 3D episode of Kirby: Right Back At Ya!

No. of Players: 1 player


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