Nintendo Download: Super Mario Runs to Android

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

• Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch
  • Has-Been Heroes – Available on March 28, Has-Been Heroes is a challenging and rewarding rogue-like game of strategy and action, featuring a band of old heroes on a quest to escort the King’s twin princesses to a faraway academy. Randomized regions, enemies and a huge pool of unlockables, including 300+ spells, 200+ items, 14 regions and 12 heroes, makes each run unique.
• Nintendo Mobile
  • Super Mario Run – The Super Mario Run game is now available to download for Android devices on Google Play! What’s more, the game has received a new update for the iOS version, bringing new features to existing and new players alike. New to Super Mario Run? You can download it from the App Store or Google Play at no cost, and you can try elements of the game’s three modes for free. Once the game has been downloaded, a one-time payment will grant unlimited access to each of the three modes in Super Mario Run – World Tour, Toad Rally and Kingdom Builder.
• Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS
  • Mario Sports Superstars – In the Mario Sports Superstars game for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, experience the challenge and depth of five full-on sports – Soccer, Tennis, Golf, Baseball and Horse Racing. Take on friends and rivals in local or online multiplayer, hone skills in training or tackle single-player tournaments. Whether you pick Mario, Waluigi or one of 16 others, you’re on the road to superstardom! (Additional games and systems are required for multiplayer mode; sold separately.)

Nintendo eShop sales:

• Nintendo eShop on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
  • Great deals this week include Severed, Runbow and SteamWorld Heist, plus several more! Check out the full list of deals on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U available this week at http://www.nintendo.com/games/sales-and-deals.

Activities:

• Splatoon 2 Global Testfire – Starting March 24, Nintendo Switch owners with internet access can download a demo version of the Splatoon 2 game that will allow them to battle against opponents around the world in the Splatoon 2 Global Testfire event. It’s a way for everyone to investigate the latest in cephalopod warfare months before the game launches! The Global Testfire dates and times are as follows:
  
  March 24
  • 12-12:59 p.m. PT / 3-3:59 p.m. ET
  • 8-8:59 p.m. PT / 11-11:59 p.m. ET
  March 25
  • 4-4:59 a.m. PT / 7-7:59 a.m. ET
  • 12-12:59 p.m. PT / 3-3:59 p.m. ET
  • 8-8:59 p.m. PT / 11-11:59 p.m. ET
  March 26
  • 4-4:59 a.m. PT / 7-7:59 a.m. ET
• My Nintendo Rewards – My Nintendo is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Kid Icarus: Uprising game with Kid Icarus 3D animations and discounts on select Kid Icarus series games, including Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems! Redeem your rewards to enjoy the following:
  
  Animations
  • Kid Icarus 3D Anime: Medusa’s Revenge
  • Kid Icarus 3D Anime: Thanatos Rising
  • Kid Icarus 3D Anime: Palutena’s Revolting Dinner
  Games
  • 30 percent off Kid Icarus: Uprising (Nintendo 3DS)
  • 30 percent off 3D Classics: Kid Icarus (Nintendo 3DS)
  • 30 percent off Kid Icarus (Wii U)
  • 30 percent off Kid Icarus – Of Myths and Monsters (Nintendo 3DS)

Theme Shop on Nintendo 3DS:

• New themes this week include:
  • Pokémon: A Sinister Organization – Team Skull
  • Pokémon: Shiny Tapu Koko

Also new this week:

• ACA NeoGeo Turf Masters (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Othello (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Japanese Rail Sim 3D Journey in suburbs #2 (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Super Destronaut 3D (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Ambition of the Slimes – Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Plantera – Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Plantera – Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Wii U)
• Mahjong Deluxe 3 (Nintendo eShop on Wii U)
• Aqua TV (Nintendo eShop on Wii U)
• Armored ACORNs: Action Squirrel Squad (Nintendo eShop on Wii U)

In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their systems. Nintendo adds new games weekly to Nintendo eShop on the Nintendo Switch console, the Wii U console, and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service that features a wide variety of content, including new and classic games, applications and demos. Users can add money to their account balances by using a credit card or purchasing a Nintendo eShop Card at a retail store and entering the code from the card. All funds from one card must be loaded in Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch, Wii U or the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, but can be used in any Nintendo eShop if the systems are linked to a single Nintendo Network account.

The Wii Shop Channel offers games and applications and uses Wii Points^™, which can be purchased via the Wii Shop Channel. The Nintendo DSi^™ Shop offers games and applications and uses Nintendo DSi Points^™. Click here for details about the recent Nintendo DSi Shop service change.

Remember that Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Wii, New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS XL, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL, Nintendo 2DS and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage some of the content their children can access. Nintendo 3DS players who register a Nintendo Network ID gain access to free-to-start games and free game demos from Nintendo eShop, and also get the latest news and information direct from Nintendo. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/switch, http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu or http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.

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