There’s actually been a pretty good offering from the various digital Download services these past two weeks. The highlight this week is Final Fantasy IV: The After Years on WiiWare. Also available on WiiWare this week is a Texas Hold’em Tournament game that has online modes for $5.

On the DSi there’s Might Flip Champs!, a puzzle platforming game that looks pretty good as well.

Then over on the VC the C64 grants out us a classic. Boulder Dash. Not bad!

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An interesting bag this week you could say. Just a bunch of odd stuff.

For DSiWare there’s American Popstar: Road to Celebrity and Photo Clock, another piece of software of dubious usefullness honestly. At least it’s cheap, but really these should still be $1 and not $2.

For WiiWare there’s BUBBLE BOBBLE Plus! (which is pretty awesome looking) and Adventure Island: The Beginning, which… is just odd! Get this, NOT JUST a mini game compilation?

Then for the VC we have Clay Fighter (Genesis version). That was such an odd title. Pre-rendered sprites in the form of photographed clay models. This whole week is just odd ok?

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This week marks the 300th title to be added to the Virtual Console Library. At this point there’s a lot of fair titles, and a great selection of must have titles. But why stop there? This week the VC gets The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask from the N64 days. A sequel to what many consider the best game of all time, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask is considered by some to be even better than it predessor. Personally I like Ocarina of Time more but Majora’s Mask is still an awesome title which I highly recommend.

DSi Ware gets a nice title for it’s library as well, Art Style: PiCTOBiTS from Nintendo. A puzzle game in which you reveal NES sprites on the top screen. I’m not exactly sure of the mechanics, but it looks worthy of checking out.

On the WiiWare front two new titles appear. One is a striaght forward Chess game from Agetec, and the other is Crystal Defenders R2 from Square Enix. Both look solid. Unfotunately I don’t think the chess game has an online mode, which is a sort of a bummer. It could have used the Wii Connect 24 features of the Wii execellently for matches between friends.

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O.O I am in shock. This is just pure awesome ok? That is all.

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A tad late this week. I appologize, however you didn’t miss much. Unfortunately… no Mario Calculator Tsk! However the VC and DSiWare services aren’t too bad this week.

This week each service gets it’s own little title. DSiWare comes forward with Real Soccer 2009. Actually, this one looks pretty good for a portable soccer game.

For WiiWare, a game called Family Pirate Party. Which seems to be some sort of Mario Party type board game but with pirates, Arrr!

And for the VC Galaxy Force II for the Sega Genesis returns for hot space shooter action.

More details inside. I want my Mario Calc ok Nintendo? You can’t tease me with the Animal Crossing one and get away with it.

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The new Punch-Out!! for Wii is coming down the line and will be available in just 10 days. Meanwhile you can check out the snazzy, and quite frankly awesome, website for the game. My god, is that coach telling me to join Club Nintendo? Win.

Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! has remained one of my favorite titles over the years, and I like that they’ve brought back a lot of the over the top, stereotypical characters (sans Mike Tyson of course). They even have Piston Honda! Although they’ve modified his name a little so it’s now Piston HondO. Von Kaiser from Germany, Glass Joe from France. Awesome.

I haven’t played the new Punch-Out!! yet of course, but it’s looking great (Hey Nintendo, send me a copy please). It’s a good sign when a Wii game has controls for both motion controls (including balance board if you have one) and NES-Style buttons.

Color me excited.

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Remember Red Steel? Yeah, it was the first Wii game ever shown actually. It also had some major issues. It was a game that was just on the edge of being something great. However pressure to be a launch title pushed the game out too fast and all that potential never paid off, although we did get some hilarious bugs. It also didn’t help that the Wii remote wasn’t technically capable of what everyone expected. However with Motion Plus arriving soon, all those fantasies of sword duels become possible.

So not too much is shown in the Red Steel 2 trailer, but it’s again showing promise. Only this time the game has a longer development period and the hardware is there to make Red Steel what it was supposed to be in the first place. I occasionally bring up Red Steel 2, mentioning that Ubisoft really has something great potential in this title, BUT THEY HAVE TO TAKE THEIR TIME. We… Shall… See… I hope it exceeds my expectations.

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There’s something wrong with me I think. I carry around my DS with all the time, and sometimes I need a calculator because it’s embarrassing to count on your fingers in the store, even if you do it in binary. Yet someone I think it wouldn’t be quite so embarrassing if I could use my DS as a calculator, especially an 8-Bit Mario themed calculator! At this point in time if you’re using an overly complex small computer for something a 25 cent pocket calc can do you’re cool ok?! Unfortunately I don’t get my wish quite yet. I’ll have to make do with the Animal Crossing Calculator and the Animal Crossing Clock that came out for DSi today.

For WiiWare Gammick Entertainment brings us Penguins & Friends - Hey! That’s My Fish! Which is some sort of hex puzzle game.

Then on the VC we get Tower Toppler for Commmodore 64. That’s one I havene’t really experienced, but the decription is funny.

Seriously, I want the 8-Bit Mario Calculator. This AC stuff is a tease. And is there really any reason for another clock? The Main Menu already has a clock! Bah! There better be some easter eggs in these things.

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You know what game I always liked for some odd reason? The paper plane game in Wario Ware Inc on GBA. Just a simple game really, it’s so unforgiving and demands precision and fast reflexes, and that’s why it was awesome. Well… guess what.

For DSi Ware this week we get another batch of card games in Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics and Paper Airplane Chase

For WiiWare Neko Entertainment brings Cocoto Platform Jumpter, which scare the hell out of me.

For the VC we get an SNES oddity called Nobunaga’s Ambition, which is apparently to conquer all of fuedal Japan!

As an added bonus to help celebrate the recent launch of the new Nintendo DSi™ system, Club Nintendo members now will be able to earn coins for registering, linking and providing feedback about their Nintendo DSi systems. They also will be able to earn coins for providing feedback about Nintendo DSiWare titles, which will be automatically registered on their Club Nintendo account when they link their Nintendo DSi Shop to their Club Nintendo account.

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Dr. Mario. That’s a game that I both love and hate. I have this unatural attraction to games that kick my ass. That’s why I own games like Dr. Mario, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, and Mystical Ninja on the VC. And now I can torture myself on the DSi.

This week for the DSiWare library Dr. Mario Express perscribes pain while Master of Illusion Express: Deep Psyche teaches you how to scam your friends.

On WiiWare Crystal Defenders R1 appears from Square Enix in a Crystal themed action game.

Then on the Virtual Console Sega Genesis revives Wonder Boy II: Monster Lair for another challenge to save the world from chaos.

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