It’s Nintendo’s first Wii Shop update of the new year, and it seems they’re being a bit stingy — it’s only two titles!

First up, Sandy Beach (1-2 players, 500 Wii Points) is Konami’s sand castle building game. Yeah, I stated it — you build sand castles in this game. It actually doesn’t sound too bad, when you take a close look. It looks like Konami is throwing some tower defense elements into the mix, as it’ll have you building cannons to defend your castle against invading crabs.

Kirby’s Dream Land 3 (Super NES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points) lands onto the Virtual Console this day, too. The platformer was one of the last games out on the SNES, and I remember the year of 1997 well. Following the release of the Nintendo 64, it was a rough year for the SNES. Outside of Kirby’s Dream Land 3 and Harvest Moon, there wasn’t much going on — an Arkanoid sequel, and some EA sports games. Honestly, I was too busy collecting the last of the stars in Super Mario 64 and playing Mischief Makers to notice, though.

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