This week, there are some new and long-time absent Nintendo DS demos for those of you who are willing to share your personal data and know where to look for them in their hidden niche on the Wii's Nintendo (Marketing) Channel. There are also some nifty new WiiWare titles and a Virtual Console classic if you have any storage space left or don't mind swapping stuff back and forth from SD cards:
- WiiWare: Maboshi's Arcade ($8) and Pool Revolution ($5)
- Virtual Console: Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II for NES ($5)
- DS Demos: Dragonball: Origins, Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero, Mystery P.I.: Portrait of a Thief, Ninjatown, Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals, plus several more repeats
- Game Videos: Age of Empires: Mythologies, Blue Dragon Plus, Celebrity Sports Showdown, The Clone Wars, Cooking Mama: World Kitchen, Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero, FIFA Soccer 09, Maboshi's Arcade, My Fitness Coach, Ninjatown, Pool Revolution, Soul Bubbles, Wario Land: Shake It! and Wii Speak, plus Top 30 Most Viewed Videos of 2008 and Fred Willard Holiday Cooking (a little late on that last one)
The first actual evidence of billiards was found in the 1470 inventory of King Louis XI of France in the form of a billiard game board. However, lawn games t originated from bat and ball games played as early as the 1300 century. Historians are unclear about the reasons for the evolution of these games. Whether it was merely for entertainment or served some social or religious functions in ancient times is still an intriguing debate among historians.