Nintendo Loves Fanboys

While Nintendo is still celebrating the 25th anniversary of their phenomenal Legend of Zelda series, they want to celebrate their happiness with you.  For a limited time, 9/28/2011 through 2/20/2012, you can experience the multiplayer hit for the Game Boy Advanced, Legend of Zelda: Four Sword Adventures, for FREE!  You heard correctly. Nintendo knows how to show their fans they love them as this is the 12th free game so far available on the 3DS.  The download is simple, head over to your DSi Ware or Nintendo eShop and download the title gratis.  

But, so you won't forget that Nintendo also wants your hard earned cash, they have also added some mouth-watering 3D game play videos for their upcoming first party hits including Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion 2, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, Paper Mario and Mario Tennis.  All these trailers look incredible and prove that the mustachioed plumber still has plenty of game left in him.  Until then, enjoy your free Zelda and play with your friends on this chapter of one of gaming's most beloved series.

How To Get Your Free 3DS Ambassador Games

Earlier this month, Nintendo announced the 3DS Ambassador program, a program meant to reward the early adopters of the handheld who paid the $250 price tag before their price drop to $169.99.  The incentive has been a bit vague and the release dates and instructions on how to attain these games has been scarce.  After a bit of digging, I found how to get them and that the first ten NES games are available as of today!  So, here is a quick guide to walk you through the steps into a nice collection in your Virtual Console.

First go into the e-Shop

Go to Settings and Other

Select Your Downloads

The games will show on the list with a download again option

You will now have access to the 10 free NES Virtual Console Games

The games being given to ambassadors so far are:

BALLOON FIGHT

DONKEY KONG JR.

ICE CLIMBERS

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA

ZELDA II: THE ADVENTURE OF LINK

METROID

NES OPEN

SUPER MARIO BROS.

WRECKING CREW

YOSHI

(Remember, to qualify, you must have purchased your 3DS before August 11th, 2011.  The second set of 10 will be GBA titles and will be available for download sometime before the end of the year.)