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We were all set to gush over Super Mario Kart and the promise of some charmingly retro party gaming (for two players at a time, of course, which we suppose is part of the retro charm), but Gust disrupted our plans by releasing something on WiiWare that is weird and ill-advised enough to demand our attention. Game Sound Station is a subscription-based music streaming service available on WiiWare — almost exclusively for listening to Gust game soundtracks. If you’d like to pay for a week of unlimited Atelier and Ar Tonelico game music, here’s your chance!

The other WiiWare game, peakvox escape virus, is sort of a Snake crossed with Geometry Wars experience. As a DNA codon, you pick up other DNA around a level to form a chain, carefully navigating your increasingly long chain around enemy viruses. The game has a variety of other modes, including one that turns it into a shooter.

Virtual Console:

• Super Mario Kart (Super Famicom, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
• Assault (Arcade, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

• Game Sound Station (1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
• peakvox escape virus (1 player, 500 Wii Points)

VC/WiiWare Tuesday: Super Mario Kart and … streaming game music originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We're all anticipating Mario Kart's release on the Wii. It may still be a while before we can fulfill all our Go-Karting (or should we say motorcycling) needs, but at least we can have a good laugh in the meantime. That's why we recommend that you watch this parody of the franchise's SNES original, titled "Super Manrio Kart." The folks behind this stop-motion film made if for an animation class, and all we have to say is, they better have gotten an A. It doesn't have a guy in a Princess Peach costume, but it's still fun, nonetheless.

[Via GeekStir]

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