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VC Monday Madness: WiiWare and VC team up yet again

Posted May 26th 2008 10:15AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: VC Monday Madness


Now, this is something we can get used to. Both WiiWare titles and Virtual Console titles releasing together, side-by-side? Totally awesome, if you ask us. And, on top of it, both of Nintendo's services are hooking us all up with some solid downloads today. With it being a holiday and all, we're glad Nintendo is providing us with some stuff to do during our downtime.

Virtual Console games available for download this week:
  • City Connection (NES, 1 - 2 players, 500 Wii Points)
  • Metal Slug (NEOGEO, 1 - 2 players, 900 Wii Points)
WiiWare games available for download this week:
  • Dr. Mario Online Rx (1 - 4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
  • Family Table Tennis (1 - 2 players, 500 Wii Points)
As always, be sure to stop back here later for our video wrap-up of today's Virtual Console releases, as well as a review for Family Table Tennis. For those of you interested in Dr. Mario Online Rx's features, give our review a read.

Gallery: Dr. Mario Online RX


Gallery: Family Table Tennis

Because playing Table Tennis with a fake racquet attachment would be silly

Posted Oct 25th 2007 10:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Peripherals

You weren't actually thinking about playing Wii Play's table tennis the Wü's Ping Pong Game with a tennis racquet peripheral, were you?

Pssssh. Come on, now. Why would you do that when all the cool kids (read: not cool kids) are using these? After all, how can you go wrong with a "Ping-Pong Bat," which are currently being sold over at DealExtreme for the random price of $16.14.

We'll give $10 to the person who guesses the next peripheral to come out on the Wii.* We're betting on some Wiimote maracas for the upcoming Samba de Amigo, since Sega just announced they won't be making any.

*We won't actually give you $10 if you guess right, you silly rabbit.

[Via Technabob]

No surprise: online not included in Table Tennis

Posted Sep 24th 2007 6:10PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: News, Nintendo Wi-Fi


By now, we should have learned never to expect online multiplayer, or really, any online capabilities at all in Wii games, and yet still we hope. Is an online tennis-type sports game too much to ask for? Apparently, yes; Rockstar has confirmed that their Wii version of Table Tennis will not feature online multiplayer.

So what gives? Why is Rockstar's Table Tennis port lacking the online mode that graced Xbox Live? "All the focus is going into making it the most advanced control system on the Wii," said Rockstar reps, in what has to be the most disappointing explanation of the month. It's not like the two are mutually exclusive. The real question here is who's at fault -- Nintendo or Rockstar? -- but we may never know if it's the Wii's basic online infrastructure or lazy developers looking to put out ports as quickly as possible and using controls and "family-oriented" play as an excuse to avoid extra work.

The upcoming Top Spin Tennis doesn't look like it's set to feature online play, either; every time we see the game mentioned, the focus is on that "family-oriented" play, which, in our experiences, means forget connecting with anyone outside your home. We may be waiting a long time to take some sort of tennis or table tennis game online at this rate.

Rockstar presents: Table Tennis screens

Posted Sep 12th 2007 3:37PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Screens


Well, these screens certainly pick us up, considering we were downright appalled at the first footage of the game. Now, these screens, well they tell a very different story. From a graphical standpoint, we are very much digging what we see, but with a game like this, until we can get it into our hands and give it a good play, we won't know either way.

Still, we're excited again!

See also: Table Tennis motion sensing explained

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