In addition to titles in which Link does not star as the protagonist, games such as the shooter title, Link's Crossbow Training ( for the Wii ), have been considered spin-offs due to the lack of a traditional " Save Hyrule " plot-line.

While it does not contain any traditional light gun technology, the peripheral makes use of the Wii Remote's built-in infrared tracking system to shoot targets that correspond on-screen.

Whereas the NES version allowed NES Zapper support, the VC re-release does not feature any kind of light gun support ( including the Wii Remote's pointer functions ), making the game only playable with the standard controller mode.

Although it does not feature the enhanced graphics and sound or some of the extra modes from the Wii version, it does include the Sanctuary Attack mode ..

Id Software publicly stated they would not support the Wii console ( possibly due to technical limitations ), although they have since indicated that they may release titles on that platform ( although it would be limited their games released during the 1990s ).

They said that since most people have Mario Bros. on one of the Super Mario Advance games, this version is not worth 500 Wii Points.

The ghosts in Luigi's Mansion have made appearances in other Nintendo games, such as Mario Party 8 and Wii Party.

When the steering wheel is placed on the back of the console, then it will have the same effect as in Mario Kart Wii by using the console's gyroscope in first-person mode.

Installments of the series have appeared on MSX computers, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and Wii video game consoles, and several models of mobile phones.

A variety of game consoles have official ports ; ScummVM has been ported to gaming machines such as the PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube and Wii, and to handheld consoles including the GP2X, Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable.

Nintendo's Wii and Nintendo GameCube have their own specialty format for copy protection.

Several of their more famous franchise titles, originally created for the MVS and AES systems, have been ported to other consoles such as the Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation and PlayStation 2, Xbox, and more recently, the Wii.

* In the Wii game Muramasa: The Demon Blade, many screens showing fields have scarecrows with a henohenomoheji face.

Other recent partners have included Cold Stone Creamery, Johnny Rockets, Tyson Foods ( chicken ), Chrysler, and Nintendo, which added testing stations in several parks to show off its Wii console.

There have also been multiple JumpStart games produced for systems other than the PC and Mac ; JumpStart Dino Adventure, a game for the Game Boy Color, JumpStart Wildlife Safari, a game for the PlayStation, JumpStart Pet Rescue, a game for the Wii, JumpStart: Escape from Adventure Island for the Wii, and JumpStart Get Moving Family Fitness, a game for the Wii.

Rockstar Games have developed their own game engine called the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine ( RAGE ) to facilitate game development on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, Mac and Wii systems.

These systems are similar to the Wii controllers but are more sensitive and have greater resolution and update rates.

In the current generation of consoles ; both Sony and Microsoft have sold their consoles, the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, respectively, at a loss and made up for it through game software and accessory profits ( Nintendo again prices its Wii at break-even or higher prices, as it is cheaper to make ).

Three further Crystal Chronicles games have been released ( chronologically, two sequels, one distant prequel, and two more ); one for the Wii was released, and one for the WiiWare download service is in development, making Crystal Chronicles a sub-series of the Final Fantasy series.

While primarily a PC and Mac-based franchise with over two dozen releases and compilations for those platforms, there have been a few entries released for consoles: two for the original PlayStation, and the 2011 release which had versions on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS and Wii.

Director Sam Balcomb defended in an interview with IGN. com that Link was right-handed in the Wii version of Twilight Princess and that Killigrew didn't have time to train left-handed.

Videogame Nation chartered the rise of video games over the past four decades and how the industry has since become a multi-billion pound industry whose horizons have opened to new ' casual gamers ' with the success of the Wii and Nintendo DS.

The Virtual Console version features the ability to send pictures taken in the game to the Wii Message Board and send them to friends, whereas the Nintendo 64 version allowed players to take their games to either Blockbuster or Lawson in either North America or Japan and have pictures from their games printed.

Among the worst reviewed games have been Ant Nation, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and X-Men: Destiny for DS, which have all received scores of 2. 0, and Kung Fu Panda 2, Major League Baseball 2K12 and X-Men: Destiny on the Wii got a 2. 5.

There have also been some video games based on the series, first released on the PlayStation, then later the PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance, and recently to Wii, as well.

For example, Konami was forced to remove all references to cigarettes in the 2000 Game Boy Color game Metal Gear Solid ( although the previous NES version of Metal Gear and the subsequent GameCube game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes both included such references, as did Wii title MadWorld ), and maiming and blood were removed from the Nintendo 64 port of Cruis ' n USA.

The " talkie " version was later included as an extra game mode in the Wii version of the 2009 action game Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, and distributed via the digital content delivery software Steam as a port for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X that same year.

An Xbox Live Arcade port of GoldenEye 007 was in development at Rare for several months, and in 2006 Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime commented that Nintendo was " exploring all the rights issues " involved in bringing GoldenEye 007 to the Wii Virtual Console.

A fully playable port has been produced for the Wii, GP2X portable game system, the Pandora handheld, and the Maemo 5-based N900 smart phone.

Atari had contracted Majesco Entertainment to port these titles to the Wii, who in turn contracted Mistic Software to port the games.

"( Console ) port " is a term specifically used to describe a game that was originally made for a console ( such as Wii or Xbox 360 ) before an identical version is created which can be played on a personal computer or any other console.

There were two differences, first when changing targets in the game map, Alex is shown eating onigiri in the original version ( and the 2008 Wii Virtual Console port ), and a hamburger in the integrated version.

The Wii lacks the hi-speed port of the GameCube into which the Game Boy Player fits ; in addition, the Game Boy Player matches the GameCube's footprint.

A port, Pitfall: The Big Adventure, was released for the Wii on September 23, 2008.

In mid-2007, veteran developers Gearbox Software came up with the idea to port the game to the Wii console, and upon Sega's approval, began working on the new version with Sonic Team as consultants.

Later, a port was released on the Wii for the Japanese Virtual Console on April 22, 2008 ; as an import, it became available in North America on March 15, 2010 and in the PAL region ( Europe and Australia ) on March 19, 2010.

IGN awarded the Wii port its " Editors ' Choice " and described it as enjoyable and " worth the wait ".

The current release, Havok Version 2011. 2, released in September 2011, is known to work on Microsoft Windows, Xbox and Xbox 360 ; Nintendo's GameCube and Wii ; Sony's PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable ; Linux ; and on Mac OS X. Licensees are given access to most of the C / C ++ source-code, giving them the freedom to customize the engine's features, or port it to different platforms although some libraries are only provided in binary format.

Another port named ' Donkey Kong – Original Edition ' was also included and pre-installed on 25th Anniversary PAL region red Wii systems in 2010.

It is now a direct port thanks to a Wii port of OpenTyrian's hardware access, SDL.

On September 14, 2007, Maryland programmer Zac Gochenour remarked, " Ultimately, I think this would also be a cool game to port to the Wii, because you have the hands-on feel of a board game.

Rockstar Toronto collaborated with Bungie ( game developer famous for its Halo title ) to port Oni to the PlayStation 2 in 2001, with Remedy Entertainment on Max Payne to bring it to the PlayStation 2 in 2001, with Rockstar London to bring Manhunt 2 to the Wii in 2007, with Rockstar Vancouver and Rockstar New England to bring Bully: Scholarship Edition to the Wii in 2008 and with Rockstar North to bring Grand Theft Auto IV and later its episodes to the PC in 2008 and 2010.

* In February 2010, Majesco Entertainment released a port of Heavy Barrel for Nintendo Wii as part of the " Data East Arcade Classics " disc.

Originally planned for release in November 2005, Twilight Princess was delayed by Nintendo to allow its developers to refine the game and add more content and to port it to the Wii.

The company finished working on their second PSP title, God of War: Chains of Olympus as well as a Wii port of Ōkami, with added motion controls.

The Wii port of the game did not fare as well ; it only sold 11, 000 copies in Japan for the week ending June 14, 2009 and a total of 38, 573 copies throughout the remainder of that year.

This game was later ported to the Dreamcast, Xbox ( as an unlockable on the Xbox port of the House Of The Dead 3 ), PC, and Wii.