2 For Virtual Console, 2 For Wiiware

As the Virtual Console enters its second week of the Hanabi Festival, Nintendo offer two Wiiware titles alongside the VC Imports.

Summed up in Nintendo's words through a Press Release;

For a special one-off event, this week's Wii Shop
Channel update brings not only two brand new WiiWare titles but also
more Virtual Console Hanabi Festival classics!

Kicking off with WiiWare, first up this week is Nintendo's very own
MaBoShi: The Three Shape Arcade. This unique arcade action title
features three games in one, based on three classic shapes: circle, bar
and square. There are three game windows on screen at the same time,
allowing for three people to play different games simultaneously. But
there is a twist - each game impacts the other players!

For every player, the goal is the same - score a million points - but
the challenge is different, whether you're bashing enemies in Circle
Mode, weaving your way through Bar Mode, or burning through a maze of
obstacles in Square Mode.

MaBoShi: The Three Shape Arcade also features Mii characters, action
replays that you can send to friends via WiiConnect24, and even a
Nintendo DS download version for playing on the go! Simple to play but
impossible to put down, MaBoShi: The Three Shape Arcade can be yours for
just 800 Wii Points.

Craziness abounds from Konami as a whole bunch of critters have managed
to find their way on to the Wii in Critter Round-Up. The critters have
escaped and the barnyard is in chaos! It's up to you to quickly catch
the animals in this puzzle action challenge! You'll have to mend fences
in a hurry to keep all the critters safe and satisfied! But the fun
doesn't stop with the farmland; more than 50 challenging levels take you
to several exotic locations, including the Outback, the icy Arctic and
more!

There's even a series of mini-games for when the critters get you down:
Snowball Soccer, Predator Rampage, Chicken Catch, and Fence Trap. Up to
four players can compete or cooperate as the critters run wild. So roll
up those sleeves and grab a friend - those critters won't catch
themselves! Critter Round-Up is available for 1000 Wii Points.

Moving over to Virtual Console, the Hanabi Festival continues with more
classic games previously unreleased in Europe. The first title - BIO MIRACLE BOKUTTE UPA - puts you in control of a superhero baby!
Originally released in 1988 by Konami on the Famicom Disk System, this
cute and quirky Japanese platform game stars an unlikely hero: a baby
named Upa who can defeat enemies by inflating them with his magic
rattle, and can bounce or ride on their balloon-like bodies!

Set in a magical kingdom, Upa is the prince and the most recent in a
line of brave fighters. By accident, Upa smashes an urn that releases
the spirit of Zai, an evil goat-like demon who proceeds to absorb the
life force of the kingdom's adults and kidnap every baby! Thankfully,
the urn was also home to a fairy who gives Upa a magical rattle to
defteat Zai! For 600 Wii Points you can crawl with Upa and win back his
kingdom!

Last but not least this week is one of the most popular arcade titles of
all time, DIG DUG! This original Famicom (NES) version was
unavailable outside of Japan, until now, making this tunnel digging
classic a real monster bashing gem for all Virtual Console fans!

The objective is simple: eliminate all underground-dwelling monsters by
either inflating them until they pop or by dropping rocks on them! Faced
with two kinds of enemy, Pookas - red round monsters with yellow
goggles, and Fygars - green dragons who breathe deadly fire, Dig Dug
must strategically dig tunnels to thwart his foes and use his air
harpoon and surrounding rocks to clear each stage.

With bonus points disguised as vegetables and the opportunity to receive
high points for luring multiple enemies and crushing them with a single
rock, DIG DUG is an intense and tactical game for fans everywhere!
Available now for 600 Wii Points.

With Hanabi Festival entering its final stage next week, you can look
forward to more previously unseen gaming classics coming to Europe!

Virtual Console offers users the ultimate retro gaming experience. This
week's titles join the list of 243 classic titles already available for
Virtual Console in Europe.

With the WiiWare pipeline filled with exciting and refreshing games keep
checking www.Wii.com and the Nintendo Channel for
all the latest WiiWare news and releases.

Any games you'll be making a purchase on today? Have your say below.