Three different kinds of platformers, all on the same day.

Club Nintendo have four new downloadable game rewards for the month, including Donkey Kong for the Game Boy and Kirby Super Star for the SNES.

The Game Boy version of Donkey Kong is going for $3.99 on the Nintendo 3DS eShop.

Joining it will be Taito’s Qix and Jaleco’s Fortified Zone.

In Japan, Nintendo are simply calling the game “Donkey Kong Returns.”

Nintendo sent out a new trailer along with a fresh batch of screenshots for Retro’s re-imagining of the SNES title.

Europeans get the 25th anniversary Mario Red Wii bundle on October 29th with a few additions to the games included inside.

From Metroid to…Donkey Kong?

This is what happens when Cranky Kong gets tired of giving Donkey Kong tips.

Nintendo’s New Play Control series is about to roll out in Europe in a few weeks. In March it’s trickling over here with Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis as the first two titles. Back in Japan Donkey Kong Jungle Beat was the introductory game for the series. Are we going to get Donkey Kong too? [...]

Pikmin and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Wii-makes are slated to come out in Japan this December. In 2009 Nintendo plans to release five more games in the Play On Wii series. Chibi Robo, Pikmin 2, Mario Power Tennis, Metroid Prime, and Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. The two Metroid Prime games should be fine if they [...]

Nintendo is going full throttle with Gamecube Wii-makes in Japan starting with Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, the first game in the Wii de Asobu series. When I heard about this I imagined Nintendo slapping on the shaking from Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast, but Nintendo is going for classic controls with Wii version. You move Donkey [...]

Is Nintendo going to derail hype from Microsoft’s press conference with a killer list of WiiWare / Virtual Console games? No, unless you’ve been waiting to play Major League Eating: The Game. Mastiff’s realistic competitive eating game includes all the fun of gorging hot dogs and belching with online play over Nintendo Wi-Fi. The 1,000 [...]

All of the retro arcade news with Dig Dug and Frogger reminded me of techno artist Moby. In his 2002 music video “We Are Made of Stars”, Moby parades around in an astronaut outfit and stumbles into an arcade. To avoid showing Pac-Man and other copyrighted characters, Moby in the astronaut suit is used as [...]