News Tagged: Hanabi Festival

Friday 3rd July, 2009 - 07:03pm

News: Nintendo of Europe Announces Upcoming Hanabi Games

Nintendo of Europe Announces Upcoming Hanabi Games

6 more imports to be released this month.

Nintendo of Europe is going all out for the fourth Hanabi Festival - Including this week's 2 import games, there will be a total of 8 released this month. You might've already noticed this list on the Wii Shop earlier today, but NoE has now also posted it on their website. They have also supplied a large image (Which you can see here) through a press email..

30 comments | In Virtual Console, Announcements, Hanabi Festival.

Friday 3rd July, 2009 - 12:04am

Nintendo Download: Hanabi Festival 4, Gradius Rebirth, Bit Boy!!, Brain Challenge and Mario Apps (EU)

Hanabi Festival 4, Gradius Rebirth, Bit Boy!!, Brain Challenge and Mario Apps (EU)

It's a fantastic week for Europe, with a total of 7 new downloadable games across all services!

As Hudson revealed last week, this month brings us the 4th Hanabi Festival! And what luck, it's already started in the very first week of the month - There's two new imports up for grabs right now!Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen is the first game in the now seemingly dead Ogre Battle series, of..

64 comments | In European Releases, DSiWare, WiiWare, Virtual Console, SNES, Mega Drive, Nintendo Download, Hanabi Festival.

Friday 26th June, 2009 - 01:18pm

News: The Hanabi Festival Returns to Europe Next Month

The Hanabi Festival Returns to Europe Next Month

Finally, more import games!

We've been expecting another Hanabi Festival for quite a while now - A whole bunch of import titles are already rated and completely ready for release in PAL regions, but month after month, we were met with disappointment. It finally ends next month though!If you take a quick look at Hudson's Virtual Console site, you'll notice that Bomberman '94 and Detana!! Twinbee are..

47 comments | In Virtual Console, Hanabi Festival.

Thursday 12th February, 2009 - 11:01am

News: OFLC Update: Even More Imports!

OFLC Update: Even More Imports!

The OFLC has updated once again with ratings for some games which will soon be coming to Europe/Australia.

The least surprising of the lot is Clu Clu Land. It's already available in the US and was released in PAL regions originally, so it's no shock that it's coming to the VC elsewhere.Also not really unexpected is Kirby's Dream Land 3. Also already available in the US, it wasn't released in..

55 comments | In Virtual Console, OFLC Ratings, Hanabi Festival.

Wednesday 28th January, 2009 - 10:58am

News: OFLC Update: Two More Imports

OFLC Update: Two More Imports

It's been quite a while since the last OFLC update, but today they've finally revealed some new VC games again! Both of them are imports, which might mean that another Hanabi Festival for Europe is not too far away.

Bomberman '94 is the sequel to Bomberman '93. If you're familiar with Mega Bomberman for the Mega Drive, this is the same game, although this version is actually usually considered..

58 comments | In Virtual Console, NES, TurboGrafx-16, OFLC Ratings, Hanabi Festival.

Friday 22nd August, 2008 - 12:43pm

News: Hanabi Festival 3 Kicks Off

Hanabi Festival 3 Kicks Off

Our expectations have been confirmed - Today marks the start of the third Hanabi Festival. The Hanabi icons in the Wii Shop, next to the names of today's released games, Super Mario RPG and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, should have already tipped this off to you, but Nintendo of Europe has now published a short press release on the matter.

This first week was arguably the biggest, but there..

89 comments | In Virtual Console, Hanabi Festival.

Friday 16th May, 2008 - 12:08am

News: EU VC Releases - 16th May - Third Hanabi Festival Week

EU VC Releases - 16th May - Third Hanabi Festival Week

If you're a shooter fan you're in real luck this week: There's two import shooters, and both of them are generally considered to be fantastic and some of the best the genre has to offer. There's also an import boxing game.

The first import shooter this week is Star Parodier on the Turbografx. After Konami made a wacky spin-off of Gradius called Parodius, Hudson Soft got the idea to do the same, and..

58 comments | In Virtual Console, TurboGrafx-16, Mega Drive, Hanabi Festival.

Friday 9th May, 2008 - 12:07am

News: EU VC Releases - 9th May - Metal Slug and More Imports

EU VC Releases - 9th May - Metal Slug and More Imports

After last week's relatively good batch of games we honestly expected Nintendo would choose the least interesting upcoming imports to release this week. Thankfully we've been proven wrong - They only chose a single bad one, plus two good ones, and on top of that, we get a non-import game!

Metal Slug needs no introduction amongst most hardcore gamers. The series is basically a wackier version of the..

52 comments | In Virtual Console, TurboGrafx-16, Mega Drive, Neo Geo, Hanabi Festival.

Friday 2nd May, 2008 - 03:31pm

News: Star Parodier and other imports in the next Hanabi festival

Star Parodier and other imports in the next Hanabi festival

In today's Nintendo Europe news in a rare moment of transparency from Nintendo we now know what to expect from the next Hanabi festival:

Over the coming weeks, you’ll also be able to enjoy other never-before-seen greats such as Gley Lancer (SEGA MEGA DRIVE), Cho Aniki (Muscle Brothers) (Turbografx), Puyo Puyo 2 (SEGA MEGA DRIVE) and Star Parodier (Turbografx), and more.All games will be released..

39 comments | In Virtual Console, Mega Drive, Preview, TurboGrafx-16, Hanabi Festival.

Friday 2nd May, 2008 - 12:31am

News: EU VC Releases - 2nd May - The Hanabi Festival Returns!

EU VC Releases - 2nd May - The Hanabi Festival Returns!

Europeans who have had their Wii for a while will no doubt remember last September - Nintendo of Europe introduced a special "Hanabi Festival" dedicated to give us import game goodness. With games such as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Mario's Super Picross and Sin and Punishment becoming available to us for the first time ever, who could refuse? Certainly not us!

Well, it looks like..

57 comments | In Virtual Console, EU Releases, Hanabi Festival, Mega Drive, TurboGrafx-16.

Friday 14th September, 2007 - 11:22am

News: September is Hanabi Festival in Europe

September is Hanabi Festival in Europe

Nintendo of Europe has announced their VC plans for the rest of the month, and they've got quite a treat: They're releasing 4 more games that weren't released in Europe before in what they call the "Hanabi Festival" - The Hanabi Festival is a Japanese fireworks show which starts in mid-September and ends at the end of September.

The update of September 21st will be "Ninja Week",..

21 comments | In Virtual Console, Hanabi Festival.