Wii's Hanabi Festival starts today

By Robert Purchese Published 12 March, 2010

Plus WiiWare and DSiWare treats.

Nintendo's Hanabi Festival returns today, making NeoGeo game Iron Clad and NES game Lode Runner available in Europe for the first time.

That's so brilliant that Nintendo has bumped up the price, raising Iron Clad from 900 to 1000 Wii Points (£7/€10), and Lode Runner from 500 to 600 Wii Points (£4.20/€6).

On WiiWare today is Military Madness, a moon-based, turn-based, hexagonal-grid strategy game that requires three hyphens to describe. This costs 1000 Wii Points (£7/€10). There's a website.

The rest belong to DSiWare, and a lot left there is. Pop Island, a bright and colourful capture the flag game with surfing penguins and jetskiing crocodiles, costs 500 DSi Points (£4.50/€5).

Simply Mahjong and Simply Sudoku are exactly what they claim to be, and cost 200 DSi Points (£1.80/€2) each.

Finally, 4 Travellers: Play Spanish is a multiplayer game that is fun and also teaches you Spanish, and Elemental Masters is a high-fantasy card game adventure. Those two cost 800 DSi Points (£7.20/€8) each.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • aine #1 2 years ago

    Is Simply Mahjong really what it claims to be, though? or just Shanghai again?

  • owl #2 2 years ago

    can we have cave story soon, please.

    (and earthbound)

  • CMcK #3 2 years ago

    Word of warning about Ironclad. It's not the original Neo Geo CD version but an unreleased MVS version. Seems almost like a bootleg as the languages are all mixed up. Still a decent (and rare) traditional shooter.

  • KDR_11k #4 2 years ago

    Pop Island is a pretty good game, you can do single "cart" play with 8 players (all DS types). It's also an extremely cheerful game (the team names are "rainbow" and "almost black";) where even a hit opponent will go "wheeeeee" as he's flung away by a firecracker.

  • sargeant_Fedder #5 1 year ago

    I'm more of an Elemental Masters fan, than Pop Island, or Neo Geo. Most people I have said that to argue with me. I usually just end the conversation with, "to each there own". If that doesn't end it, then I let them know how immature they sound. If you tell my friends scrapbooking paper is cool, they'll disagree. If you tell them it's not cool, they'll still disagree. To them the glass is always half empty.