the catch up week everyone was waiting for!

Can't wait to give MaBoShi a whirl with my gaming buddies, as well as by myself via the downloadable DS game. Very cool addition to what appears to be a very unique and enjoyable little game. Look forward to downloading it soon.

Go you guys... now you can discover that MaBoShi isn't quite as good as you expected

Oh, and remember that you only got this 'cos you gave us World of Goo! See... you give a little, you get a little

One question: how the hell did you guys know MBS was going to be out today (someone said it)?

...and both games I really want to get came!
I'm 200 points short for both though.

EDIT:
@Wiiloveit - Our good friend Dazza said the game is supposed to come this week!

About freakin' time!

Great news about MaBoShi, finally... I have known for a while it would come out today secretly. I have dropped a few hints to give you guys hope, but I was asked not to make an official statement as it wasn't 100%

It is interesting to see that Cue Sports is only 500 points in the USA. Quite the bargain if you like the sport.

FINALLY! MABOSHI!
Now I can stop ranting lol

Oh damn which one should I get? I have 4000 points, but I want World Of Goo, Tetris, the Art Style games, maybe Gyrostar, and Wild West Guns as well.

THANK YOU NINTENDO!!!!!! Finally!!!

Yes! Oh wait I'm dry... NOOOOO!

Nice to see that America finally get Maboshi, although i was enjoying the fact that out of my three WiiWare games, one of them was exclusive to Europe for a change. Damm. Also, i'm frustrated that you guys get Cue Sports... I mean Pool Revolution for 500 points when Europe get it for 800, Sure, we get Pit Crew Panic at 500 but i would prefer Cue Sports over Pit Crew Panic. Further comments on Zoda's Revenge are at VC-Reviews.

@Terranigma: I'm frustrated about the price differential of Cue Sports/Pool Revolution, too.

What should we do about it?

At 500 points, I probably would've picked it up. But at 800, and especially after hearing about this, I'll just wait and buy WSC Real 08.

folds arms defiantly

j

@Indenmark
Nothing we can do about it, except import a US Wii and i'm not going that far just to get 300 points off a WiiWare Game. It is frustrating but at least Pit Crew Panic is cheaper. Maybe they'll give us more price drops in the future on a better game, who knows.

YES! finally we get maboshi!! And just in time for the end of the year, i thought they woldn't make it. Mabey this will be enough to pull me away from art style decode!

An ok update, but where's that special New Years gift? WE didn't get an X-mas one so..........

Well, I wanted MaBoShi for a while so it aint all bad

Congratulations!! Hope you enjoy MaBoShi.

I hate maboshi and the billiards. This games are very bad. BAD

not buy this games, they seem good, but are boring.
Capicci?

(my english is very bad. Sorry)

i really dont know why maboshi is getting so much attention.it really isnt very good,especially for the price.you play for ages to get a half decent score and one mistake(which is really easy to make)and thats it,youve got to start all over again(which is really no fun).N America beware!!!!

It's a joy to see happy faces in this time of year. Have fun with MaBoShi and the cheap pool game, while we play Bang and Niki Rock and Ball.
Wuahahahaha!

@18. wiiwii
Isn't that how all puzzle games work, though? There's no "continues" in Tetris.

So, why the name change for these games?

(Funny thing, WiiWorld. your spell-checker didn't like "isn" in isn't and it didn't like Tetris. )

I wanted Niki ... ... wait you said MaBoShi, YAY that's not that bad at all, I though it will never come, still not a very special update for the holidays.

I wanted Niki this week

I guess this is a sign to spend my 900 points on DoReMi (I was savin them for NOA giving us an uber-game as an update).

@20. draygone
Fair point but this isnt like normal puzzle games.repeating through the early skill levels really is tiresome.you have no skill levels to choose from the start so you just have to do all the easy parts again and trust me its boring.download at your peril.

Its so cool that Maboshi came out today I might just download this game.

Cue Sports: The 4-player factor, low price point, and fact that it's less sleazy than Midnight Pool makes it a decent buy for me. If I'm playing it with my niece & nephew, I'd rather not have it w/ women looking kinda trampy. (and since WiiPlay's 9-ball is only 2 player...)

MABOSHI AND CUE SPORTS! YES!!!!

We still don't have Animales, but I don't care!

Cool! Great Update for Wiiware!

I'll pass on these two, not really my kind of games. Still an awesome update if you do like these types. I know Maboshi got good reviews on here, but i just don't really like puzzle games. I plan to dl Startropics II sometime in the future.

I might just get MaBoShi, but even if I don't, this seems like a pretty good week for everyone else.

@DJGOYO: Está bien - mi español no es demasiado buena, tampoco. Oh - and the games you stated really aren't that bad at all.
@Cheezy: Hows about World of Goo, Tetris Party, MaBoShi and Gyrostarr / Pool Revolution CS?
@PALgamer: Wait... this Bang?
@Twilight Crow: First use of a crying smiley I've seen on here - well done! So WWW.... any others hiding up your sleeves?

@PalGamer (19) - Because it'd take both Bang! and Niki: Rock and Ball combined to equal anything like the entertainment value of either MaBoShi or Cue Sports. Niki in particular is completely unspectacular repetitive tat.

This has been the best Shop Channel update for NA in months, imo. Zoda's Revenge for me (and a few others, though reactions seem to trend low over at VC-Reviews), Maboshi for everybody who had to wait so long, and Cue Sports for whoever wants it. I'm actually not mad at Nintendo this week ...!

So it is in a very NON-complainy way that I ask: Does anybody know when we might expect Cave Story? It looks great (better than most WiiWare I've seen, imo), and I hope it comes soon.

These two games have already been reviewed. There's nothing to wait for.

I wonder what Europe will get this Thursday?

@Twilight Crow
Yeah.... how did you get a crying smiley? First one I've seen on WWW.

@Shadow262
Corbie the Awsome means that the reviews are up NOW. They were both already released in Europe, so the reviews have been up for a while.

@twilight crow
god i should pay attention more! lol

@Bahamut_zero. Type a colon, a comma, and then a "(" in that order.

I downloaded Maboshi and it's not that good. It's a little boring. I dunno... plus so far, apparently, the US doesn't have download service, which sucks

Come on Europeans, those two games I mentioned before are our last exclusives, we have to hype them up to make the Americans want them.

Glorious Bang! how many wonderful afternoons you have given me [...] [...]

PS: Its an apostrophe, not a comma

What was with those crazy long posts? This is a good update though. I might get both of them.

@Corbie. THANK YOU. It's about time someone taught that D-bag a lesson.
I don't think he was trying to be funny either. Just to get attention.

@PAL gamer. Sorry. I'm always getting apostrophes and commas confused.

EDIT: A lot

Don't worry Mr. Cheez, I mix up my lefts and rights !!!

BTW, how many smilies are there? EDIT: Cool

(Test area) :@ :? :& :B X( :x >( %| :> ;> B) 8) 8( :J :# :& &) d) ;/ +) :C :}
I can't do the nerdy one O_o lol

Great way to end the year with Maboshi.

I downloaded Maboshi, I'm a puzzle fan and is a really good game, it's very fun and addictive,minimalist but highly complex.
I love the retro DS Downloadable version, i'm playing now on it.
But I think I will never score a million points.
I don't understand why people get bored with it..

Go you guys... now you can discover that MaBoShi isn't quite as good as you expected

How ironic, since I got the game and love it. =D

Well, I'm happy for everybody who was looking forward to this. Me, well, I wasn't looking forward to anything in particular anyways, and this doesn't really catch my fancy. So, nothing for me, but at least I wasn't disappointed.

MaBoShi isn't for everyone but being the big puzzle fan that I am, I really enjoy it. My sib loves it too. And yes, it is highly addictive despite it being simplistic in nature.

And the addition of DS Download was a VERY nice touch.

We must've played it for more than an hour, for sure. Stick is addicting in itself. xD

This was well worth the price of admission.

Woooooooo! its finally here and we got it now... gonna go download and buy MaBoShI and Cue Sports right away... this was a great update for us in the NA... cant wait to try out these games now... one of my favorite type of games!!

Wow, I just got home ready to finally download MaBoShi, and discovered that I created an smiley revolution , hey how do you do the face? I couldn't get it right.

Edit:Thanks!

Meh, nothing of interest for me. I got Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros Brawl and Blast Works to hold me over. Not to mention Super Metroid and Bomberman Blast. Thats right, I finally made a dicision.

Anyone got any info on any upcoming wiiware or VC titles?

Great update with an absolutely awesome MaBoShi =).

Nothing interesting for me...I will have to wait for Swords&Soldiers and some other ones...

These comments turned into "Revenge of the Smileys"

@Corbie: Well, the eternal mystery is solved. But what emotion is that one with the frog eyes supposed to be?

@Cheezy: Wait..... the DL service isn't for NA? KnucklesSOnic08 said it works. Who's right

I don't think they're frog eyes, I think they're glasses.

@Corbie: They look like those 1-man airplane glasses from those movies. What emotion is it though?

Seems like some people either love Mashobi or hate Mashobi. I guess there is no in between

Yay - I started a useful conversation for once!
@Corbie: from your list, how do you get three seven and eleven?
@Tony: I'm an in-between-y
@Calculon: I'll let the Niki comment slide since you're always so angry anyway, but I'm still intrigued to know why you hate it so much.

Smiley's Banzai!!!
B - ) : $

I think its about time we get Niki now.

OFF TOPIC!
What should my new avatar be? I'm thinking of something Gears of War 2, a.k.a my new favorite game! If you haven't picked it up do so now. And MaBoShi too.

Shadx: Wait, all your game names have either Super or Blast in them?

At that price, that pool game is VERY tempting..

I wish we got that price for Pit Crew Panic as well though..

I wish Nintendo actually bothered to run some sales for the games every once in a while like XBLA and PSN...maybe next year?

@PALgamer: thanks for that.
@slambert215: Hows about... your nose?

Wow, this is the most off-topic comments I've seen in a while

The US have caught up with EU, now we just need to get the US games. Gyrostarr and one or two others would be nice.

Um...mine doesn't have the DS Download thingie...

@Cheezy: Once you've played each game once (and got past the tutorial thing), an icon will appear towards the top of the screen when you start playing - you'll know it when you see it.

I did that.

@Wiiloveit
That would be really creepy 0_o

@Bahamut ZERO
How about this ?

This is a question that's a bit out of left field, but does anybody know if the cue that comes with WCS Real 08 can be used effectively with Pool Revolution: Cue Sports (or Midnight Pool, for that matter)?

thanks,

j

Downloaded Maboshi, and it is quite good. I was reluctant to believe the reviews at first, as some of the people that had played it said that it wasn't worth it. Eventually I gave in and discovered a very simple, but exceedingly complex game that is just what I was looking for this holiday season. It has very addictive gameplay, and if you play it with a few buddies who don't mind its simplicity, that addictiveness is multiplied tenfold. Maboshi is a glittering diamond disguised as a stone.

@beastman93: that was epic!
@Cheezy: check the instructions and just keep playing - maybe you missed something, need to meet Mr MaBoShi or need to get better scores.

Somebody edited my post. o.o

MaBoShi is cool. [great music too.]

I love MaBoShi it is a nice addition to the American Shop Channel.

@43: Corbie: You forgot the grinning devil face:
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