![]() ![]() ![]() These were generally not as well received as Konami’s Rebirth series ( Adventure Island was particularly terrible), but if you’re a completionist and want to see every entry in a beloved series, these do exist. Mario Online Rx being the most notable of these. Driller W, Bomberman Blast, Rainbow Islands Towering Adventure, Adventure Island: The Beginning, Star Soldier R, and Nintendo’s own Dr. In this same vein, there are also plenty of other remakes of classic games with 3D graphics, or just stripped-down WiiWare entries in popular arcade series: Bubble Bobble Plus, Arkanoid Plus, Bust-a-Move Plus, Mr. One of Nintendo’s bigger efforts on WiiWare was Excitebike World Rally, a followup to its NES classic with isometric 3-D gameplay. Sunsoft’s Blaster Master Overdrive is a similar release. Developed by the top-tier retro revival studio M2, these are quite fun (if short) entries in their respective series, with pretty pixel art and gorgeous soundtracks. Perhaps the best of these are Konami’s trio of “Rebirth” games: Gradius Rebirth, Contra Rebirth, and Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth. While some of these, like Mega Man 9 and 10, have since been released elsewhere, some remain exclusive to WiiWare. The success of Nintendo’s groundbreaking classic-game download service apparently inspired many game publishers to create new, retro-styled entries in classic franchises for WiiWare. (Note that this also applies to the Virtual Console games that you can buy through the Wii, although these are mostly available on other platforms, and are more likely to show up again in the future.) Everything Old Is New Againīefore WiiWare, there was Virtual Console. And since Nintendo in its pre-Direct days did a terrible job of actually informing people about the existence of WiiWare games, there are a few you might not even know exist – including some exclusives that are only available on WiiWare, and are about to be not available anywhere. So while you do have until 2019 to spend those points or re-download any games you deleted from your console, you’ve only got a few months now to add more points and grab anything you might have been sleeping on. Unless, of course, you’ve got a pile of unspent points in your account. Since Wii Points are the only method by which you can purchase more games, that means you won’t be able to buy any of these games after that date. That’s the date that Nintendo will stop allowing you to add Wii Points to your console. While Nintendo won’t take the Wii Shop Channel offline until January 30, 2019, the real end date of WiiWare is coming up much sooner – March 27, 2018. Before that happens, here are the games you might want to load onto your Wii or Wii U. It was a weird, eclectic mix of games, and it’s all going away soon. ![]() Nintendo’s first tentative steps into the world of original downloadable games came in 2008 with the launch of WiiWare, for the original Wii. ![]()
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