Animal Crossing: Wild World takes you into a real-time virtual world where an entire village is waiting to be explored. Whether you want to decorate your home, catch... read more

Animal Crossing: Wild World takes you into a real-time virtual world where an entire village is waiting to be explored. Whether you want to decorate your home, catch bugs or fish, or just chat with the characters in your village, there's always something to do. Days and seasons pass in real time, and you can visit the vilages of online players -- even if they're a thousand miles away. (hide)

In Super Monkey Ball, you're in control of a cute little monkey trapped inside a transparent ball. The objective of the game is deceptively simple: tilt the floor... read more

In Super Monkey Ball, you're in control of a cute little monkey trapped inside a transparent ball. The objective of the game is deceptively simple: tilt the floor with your analog stick so that your monkey ball rolls towards the goal. Your success is all in the thumb: the more you tilt, the faster the ball rolls. Just be sure not to fall off the edges! You can play with up to four others to see who can master the tilt and get their monkeys to the finish line ahead of the pack. (hide)

What do you get when you cross the cuddly cute characters of a game like Pokémon Gold with the do-my-bidding gameplay of a title like Black & White?... read more

What do you get when you cross the cuddly cute characters of a game like Pokémon Gold with the do-my-bidding gameplay of a title like Black & White? You might get something like Pikmin--if you're lucky. Created by The Legend of Zelda auteur Shigeru Miyamoto, Pikmin is an action-strategy game in which you play as a Tom Thumb-sized spaceman who has crash-landed among a race of sprouts with legs (or are they flowering ants?). You'll find the sprouts friendly, helpful, and more than willing to team up to move obstacles, defend your base camp against predators, and bridge impassable gaps so that you can find the necessary materials to fix your ship and return home.

The game's control interface is simple, so anyone old enough to grasp the nonlinear strategic gameplay elements can pick it up and play. People at the show were drawn to the game's colorful design (the backgrounds are based on Miyamoto's own garden), and several gathered to play the game as a group by suggesting new solutions to the game's puzzles. --Porter B. Hall

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Super Mario Sunshine takes Mario and Peach to beautiful Sunshine Island, for a much-needed vacation -- until a graffiti artist dressed like Mario goes around vandalizing the place!

Super Mario Sunshine takes Mario and Peach to beautiful Sunshine Island, for a much-needed vacation -- until a graffiti artist dressed like Mario goes around vandalizing the place! (hide)

Mario Kart: Double Dash! lets you double up with your favorite Nintendo mascots for fast and hard kart racing.

Mario Kart: Double Dash! lets you double up with your favorite Nintendo mascots for fast and hard kart racing. (hide)

If you're looking for a roll call of famous Nintendo characters, look no further than Super Smash Bros. Melee. Based on the original Nintendo 64 multiplayer game, this... read more

If you're looking for a roll call of famous Nintendo characters, look no further than Super Smash Bros. Melee. Based on the original Nintendo 64 multiplayer game, this title puts Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Kirby, Yoshi, and a slew of other characters into a free-for-all brawl. Players can select characters based on their signature moves and weapons, and then go into fighting modes where objectives range from being the last man standing to collecting the most gold coins during a battle. There's even a point-scoring timed round where players are judged on the technical accuracy of their combos.

All of the fight venues are taken from familiar Nintendo landscapes, such as Donkey Kong's jungle or Link's Zelda universe, but are upgraded to a level of detail that previous Nintendo systems have been unable to achieve. The game will come with a one-player side-scrolling mode, but it's clear that Melee is meant to be played with a group of friends--up to four can play at one time, and up to 64 people can partake in the game's tournament mode. --Porter B. Hall

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If you're looking for a roll call of famous Nintendo characters, look no further than Super Smash Bros. Melee. Based on the original Nintendo 64 multiplayer game, this... read more

If you're looking for a roll call of famous Nintendo characters, look no further than Super Smash Bros. Melee. Based on the original Nintendo 64 multiplayer game, this title puts Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Kirby, Yoshi, and a slew of other characters into a free-for-all brawl. Players can select characters based on their signature moves and weapons, and then go into fighting modes where objectives range from being the last man standing to collecting the most gold coins during a battle. There's even a point-scoring timed round where players are judged on the technical accuracy of their combos.

All of the fight venues are taken from familiar Nintendo landscapes, such as Donkey Kong's jungle or Link's Zelda universe, but are upgraded to a level of detail that previous Nintendo systems have been unable to achieve. The game will come with a one-player side-scrolling mode, but it's clear that Melee is meant to be played with a group of friends--up to four can play at one time, and up to 64 people can partake in the game's tournament mode. --Porter B. Hall

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Mario Kart: Double Dash! lets you double up with your favorite Nintendo mascots for fast and hard kart racing.

Mario Kart: Double Dash! lets you double up with your favorite Nintendo mascots for fast and hard kart racing. (hide)