SPOGS Racing - WiiWare

It's WiiWare week for Europe again, and this time there are once again two new games available. Although you might as well say it's just one, as one of them was already released in the US and was found to be rather shockingly bad. The new game of the bunch is Pirates: The Key of Dreams, in which you can play as a pirate, sailing the seas, recruiting new men, battling other ships, finding treasure and investigate, all leading to the ultimate goal: Finding the Key of Dreams. The game is a prequel to the now released DS game Pirates: Duels on the High Seas. Obviously we don't have a review already, but if you want to find out some more about the game, you could read the interview we had with the game's developer, Oxygen Games. The game costs 1000 Wii Points. Today's other game was released in the USA the week before last and is already somewhat notorious. SPOGS Racing makes you play as SPOGS Racers, basically wheels with a pog inside (You know them, those things you could get in potato chip bags in the 90's!).....

In Todays show we discuss: -Conduit Footage -Activision's Wee 1st Franchise -Castlevania: Judgement We also talk about: 1. Wii shop releases from last week 2. Announce the winner of our contest 3. Heartfelt story about a young girl 4. Answer fan-mail about Smash Brothers and Guitar Hero: On Tour 5. Guitar Hero:On Tour 6. Sony's losses 7. Rant on SPOGS racing

Nintendo of America has an ample supply of WiiWare games sitting in a vault. SPOGS Racing was pulled from it today. As the title suggests, it's a racing game with a twist of crashing into other players and stealing parts. Changing the SPOG driving avatar from a racer to pirate probably doesn't have an effect. It's unclear if SPOGS Racing uses motion control, but the input methods it supports are: a lonely remote, nunchuck, and Classic Controller. With a limited amount of information it's hard to plunk down 1,000 Wii Points ($10) for what aesthetically looks like a lost Nintendo 64 game.