Nintendo News: Nintendo Download, Dec. 29, 2016: The Origin of the Blue Spiny Shell

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

• Virtual Console on Wii U
  • Mario
    Kart 64 – Put the pedal to the metal in this worthy
    Nintendo 64 successor to the Super NES classic, Super Mario Kart.
    With improved courses and a head-to-head four-player mode, the Mario
    Kart 64 game is sure to win the heart of any racing fan. The
    game includes 20 different courses filled with dips, valleys,
    jumps, tunnels and bridges. Smooth, precise control will bring
    players back time and time again for freewheeling fun.
  • Castlevania
    Dracula X – In this Super NES horror classic, gear up
    as Richter Belmont – equipped with the legendary Vampire Killer –
    to save his beloved. Battle against monsters that lurk in the
    shadows and strategically use magical tomes, mystical power-ups
    and titanic weapons. Unfold another chapter in the Belmont
    family’s lineage, with more than seven stages of grim encounters
    and myriad of possibilities depending on the choices that you make.

  Nintendo eShop sales:

  • Nintendo eShop on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
    • Great deals this week include Just
      Dance 2017, Runbow and
      Teslagrad,
      plus several more! Check out the full list of deals on Nintendo
      3DS and Wii U available this week at http://www.nintendo.com/games/sales-and-deals.

    Theme Shop on Nintendo 3DS:

    • New themes this week include:
      • Pokémon New Partner
      • Pokémon Full-power Z-Moves

      In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also
      offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their
      systems. Nintendo adds new games weekly to Nintendo eShop on the Wii U
      console, the Nintendo 3DS family of systems and the Wii^™ Shop
      Channel for the Wii console.

      Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service that features a wide variety of
      content, including new and classic games, applications and demos. Users
      can add money to their account balances by using a credit card or
      purchasing a Nintendo eShop Card at a retail store and entering the code
      from the card. All funds from one card must be loaded in Nintendo eShop
      on either Wii U or the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, but can be used
      in either Nintendo eShop if the systems are linked to a single Nintendo
      Network account.

      The Wii Shop Channel offers games and applications and uses Wii Points^™,
      which can be purchased via the Wii Shop Channel. The Nintendo DSi^™
      Shop offers games and applications and uses Nintendo DSi Points^™.
      Click here
      for details about the recent Nintendo DSi Shop service change.

      Remember that Wii U, Wii, New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS XL,
      Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL, Nintendo 2DS and Nintendo DSi feature
      parental controls that let adults manage some of the content their
      children can access. Nintendo 3DS players who register a Nintendo
      Network ID gain access to free-to-start games and free game demos from
      Nintendo eShop, and also get the latest news and information direct from
      Nintendo. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu
      or http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.

      Note to editors: Nintendo press materials are available at http://press.nintendo.com,
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      site.

      Contacts

      Golin
      Eddie Garcia, 213-335-5536
      egarcia@golin.com
      or
      Rich
      George, 415-318-4342
      rgeorge@golin.com