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Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS Heats up for Christmas
More Original Games, Classic Games and Recent Nintendo 3DS Hits Will Be Available Digitally in 2012
REDMOND, Wash.--(October 5, in the year of our Lord
2012)-- Nintendo 3DS owners are getting an amazing
lineup of downloadable games for the holidays and beyond.
Original games, classic games and demos will all be making an
appearance in the Nintendo eShop. Fans also will soon find
downloadable versions of select Nintendo 3DS hits that have
already launched as packaged goods.
Nintendo 3DS owners will see a sequel to fan-favorite Pushmo,
classics like Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania: The Adventure, plus
a series of three original games developed by LEVEL-5 and
several well-known Japanese collaborators.
“The Nintendo eShop demonstrates Nintendo’s commitment to
providing consumers with unique digital content through a
combination of creativity and convenience,” said Scott Moffitt,
Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales &
Marketing. “The variety and quality of games coming this year is
unmatched, from new entries in established franchises to
original properties.”
The following content is scheduled to launch in the Nintendo
eShop in 2012:
ORIGINAL GAMES
NightSky launches Oct. 25. NightSky is an action-puzzle game
that offers an ambient game-play experience with cerebral
challenges that fill uniquely designed, picturesque worlds. Each
of these worlds is broken into different areas in which the
player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to
advance.
Crashmo launches Nov. 22. Players can embrace the laws of
gravity and challenge themselves with a whole new kind of
action-puzzle play in this exciting sequel to the critically
acclaimed Pushmo. New gravity mechanics and gadgets like
floating blocks, doors and move switches await, testing players’
skills as they push, pull and slide each puzzle’s colorful
blocks in order to climb to the top. Just be careful where those
blocks are moved—unsupported blocks will come crashing down.
Crashmo contains lots of puzzles to test your brains, and
enhanced puzzle-creation and -sharing features mean that even
when all the puzzles are cleared, the fun never has to stop.
Fluidity: Spin Cycle arrives on Dec. 27, letting players tilt,
turn and even rotate their Nintendo 3DS system 360 degrees to
maneuver a puddle of water named Eddy through a maze-like,
magical world. Change from liquid to a block of ice or a steam
cloud to solve fun, gravity-defying puzzles and defeat Goop
monsters. Fluidity: Spin Cycle features a new storybook setting
to explore that spans the ages, from a lost world full of
dinosaurs to the modern world and beyond.
Three original games from LEVEL-5 and several well-known
Japanese collaborators will launch in the Nintendo eShop for
Nintendo 3DS before this holiday season. The first of these
games, SUDA 51’s LIBERATION MAIDEN, is set 100 years in the
future, when the president of Japan boards her Liberator, Kamui,
and fights to free her country one region at a time. AERO PORTER
by Yoot Saito and Yasumi Matsuno’s CRIMSON SHROUD are also
slated for release by the end of the year.
Get ready to unleash pedestrian-tossing pandemonium with Grace
and Savannah in Tokyo Crash Mobs, a fast-paced action-puzzle
game coming to the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS in early
2013. Players will need lightning-fast reflexes and an eye for
strategy to survive the three chaotic weeks that lie ahead for
our heroines, as they take on anyone and anything that gets in
their way.
RECENT NINTENDO 3DS HITS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D,
Star Fox 64 3D and Mario Kart 7 will become available for
purchase from the Nintendo eShop on Oct. 18 at a price of $39.99
each. Additional Nintendo 3DS software currently only available
at retail stores will become available in the Nintendo eShop in
the future.
VIRTUAL CONSOLE
Mario Golf (launches Oct. 11)
Zelda II – The Adventure of Link (launches Nov. 22)
Wario Land II (launches Dec. 20)
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (launches Dec. 27)
GAME DEMOS
Two demo versions of Style Savvy: Trendsetters will be available
for download from the Nintendo eShop. The first demo is
available today and lets players participate in a fashion
contest, create an outfit based on the contest theme, style
their model’s hair and makeup and send her down the runway. The
second demo will be available on Nov. 1, and lets players style
their clothes and makeup, and then connect to the Internet via
Nintendo Network to visit the online Fashion Plaza where they
can check out ensembles that actual Style Savvy: Trendsetters
players have created. Any items purchased using in-game currency
in this demo version can be transferred to the full game. Style
Savvy: Trendsetters will launch in stores and in the Nintendo
eShop on Oct. 22.
Additional game demos coming soon include:
Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d you steal our garbage?!!
from D3Publisher
Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion from Disney Interactive
LEGO The Lord of the Rings from Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment
Moshi Monsters: Moshlings Theme Park from Activision
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed from SEGA
Remember that Nintendo 3DS features parental controls that let
adults manage the content their children can access. For more
information about this and other features, visit
http://www.nintendo.com/3ds. For more information about
Nintendo, visit
http://www.nintendo.com.