It's likely to be a quiet week out of Nintendo of America. As you may have heard, some bright spark did not let the fact that he was half-dead from swine flu stop him from attending this year's Penny Arcade Expo, here in beautiful downtown Seattle. As a result, most if not all of the attendees are coming down with it now, which includes many people at the nearby headquarters of NoA; I believe the word that my source used was "ravaged," as if the swine flu actually attacked the building with axes and fire.
Thus, we have no official Download press release for today, and honestly, I wouldn't expect one. They're probably real busy with fluids and bed rest right about now.
Fortunately, Nintendo Raw woke up much earlier than I did today, and slapped a list of today's releases together from the ESRB's website. For WiiWare, we're looking at Mart Racer, which is kind of a clever concept if nothing else; future techno handball simulator Spaceball: Revolution; and Gameloft porting a Texas Hold 'Em Poker game from cell phones.
The Virtual Console release of the week is, um, well, this. Crash 'n' the Boys is part of the Japanese series Kunio-kun, named after the president of Technos. By the time any of the games had made it over to North America, they'd been thrown into the translation grinder and came out as River City Ransom and Super Dodgeball. Looking at it, though, I think Crash 'n' the Boys might have gotten the worst end of that deal by a damn sight. Basically, if you were challenging the gang members in River City Ransom to some kind of illegal freestyle Olympics where you're allowed to hurricane-kick the other contenders, you'd get Crash 'n' the Boys.
There is no press release after the cut. Get well soon, Nintendo of America.
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