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Tetris and Letter Box come to 3DS eShop this week

This week's festive Nintendo downloads in full

Nintendo has saved a bombshell for its final download day before Christmas by announcing it'll be adding Tetris, the original Game Boy blockbuster, to the eShop this Thursday.

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Not only that, the free Nintendo Letter Box app will also be made available on Thursday, allowing you to write messages, draw pictures in 2D and 3D, or send photos and sound to your friends over StreetPass or SpotPass.

They both join the previously announced Mighty Switch Force! from WayForward, turn-based action adventure game Castle Conqueror Heroes, side-scrolling shooter Commando: Steel Disaster and WiiWare footy sim Football Up!. Here's the full list of games due to be released this week:

3DS eSHOP

Mighty Switch Force! (WayForward) (£5.40)

Nintendo Letter Box (Nintendo) (Free)

Tetris (Game Boy) (Nintendo) (£3.60)

3DS eSHOP AND DSiWARE

Castle Conqueror Heroes (Circle Ent) (500 Points/£4.50)

Commando: Steel Disaster (Cinemax) (800 Points/£7.20)

WiiWARE

Football Up! (EnjoyUp Games) (500 Points)

MotoHeroz Demo (RedLynx) (Free)

We reckon that makes three essential downloads this week - Nintendo Letter Box, Tetris and Mighty Switch Force. which will you be getting?

Chris Scullion
Chris Scullion
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  1. george2v Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 13:32

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

  2. omza Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 13:43

    LETTER BOX AND TETTRRRIIISS!!!!

  3. ploiper Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 13:44

    Tetris shall be mine, still one of my very fave games ever, i must have it.

  4. Ai64 Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 13:49

    I was getting worried, but letterbox and tetris to round it off? So AWSOME NINTENDO!! :D

  5. pokemaster Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 13:49

    Pretty pleased with that. Good eshop week. :D

  6. BreezySkells Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 14:01

    Letterbox! why is there no e-shop downloads next week?

  7. Dertdood Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 14:03

    Can't I send letters to my added friends?

  8. Beyond Birthday Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 14:24

    Getting Tetris for sure. For total nostalgia the pure experience is required and that includes the Type-A music.

  9. jonnyjazz Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 14:29

    This is awesomeeeeeeeeeee! I'm looking forward to the Mighty Flip Champs sequel. Still nothing like a bit of tetris, plus I think that the whole letterbox thing is needed as there's not been anyway to communicate with people by the 3DS until this point. So all in all I'd say everything but Wiiware has had a great download this month.

  10. ChrisONM Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 14:35

    Letterbox! why is there no e-shop downloads next week?


    We didn't say that. We said its final download day before Christmas. Next week will be its first download day after Christmas :D

  11. kaitojamespartri Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 15:31

    Wooooo! I was worried they wouldn't deliver on time.....HORRAH! :D

  12. thecoolmana777 Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 15:36

    WHOOOO!!!!! LETTER BOX!!!!!!! :D :D

  13. rockin ronbob Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 16:20

    :mrgreen: :mrgreen: FINALLY THE MESSAGING SERVICE THING IS UPON US :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

  14. L_A Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 16:28

    I was wondering how long it'd take them to release Tetris on the e-shop... but I was expecting it to be one of the earl e-shop releases, Tetris being one of the most popular GameBoy game.
    However, I really wasn't expecting Letter Box... guess I had forgotten about it :p

    Great week for the e-shop :)

  15. CyberGW Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 16:33

    Oh yeah! I'm gonna be using Letter Box alot, especially with organising Mario Kart races when I get it for Christmas!
    Finally, the days of having chats with just your tiny little Friend List motto are over!

  16. noodle link Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 16:35

    Even more free stuff? Nintendo, you so generous this year! :3

  17. ledreppe Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 17:00

    I'll definetly download letterbox, only because it's free, I'm useless at Tetris so forget that.

  18. Waldy565 Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 17:42

    so thats the Motoheroz demo, tetris and letterbox! awesome! wow, i need so much money for eshop :( mario land, links awakening, pullblox and tertis aint gonna come free :(

  19. TheNUKEnukeM Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 18:21

    Letter box is good because now me and my fiend can now communicate more in 3ds which isnt the through the comment you can send them.

  20. stealth1497 Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 19:21

    It will be interesting to see how letter box works, it will be useful to organise games over spotpass 8)
    Might download tetris also...

  21. gmundy Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 19:23

    I love the fact that you can also send voice messages which makes it easier if you can't be bothered to write messages.

  22. onmsam Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 19:51

    where can you get the e shop card?

  23. NEO.BAHAMUT Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 20:51

    ...A few days after I brought myself the 3DS version of Tetris.... REALLY?!

  24. mafu1989 Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 20:55

    where can you get the e shop card?

    Saw Nintendo e-shop cards in tesco sitting right next to the itunes vouchers. Look for a white card with a mario style coin on them. Still not seen the zelda cards yet tho.

  25. MD1500 Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 22:19

    i found the eshop cards in WH Smith.

  26. MartinIsAwesome Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 22:22

    I may have to download all those eShop titles. I need an classic Mega Man style game that goes beyond the 8-bit art style, I need to have what is essentially a personal e-mail service between me and my friend's 3DS, and I need Korobeiniki in my ears,

  27. DFawkes Tuesday 20th Dec 2011 at 23:43

    I really love Game Boy Tetris. It's easily my favourite version of Tetris, I can see me playing it more that I play Tetris 3DS! It just feels like a far purer experience, plus I just love that music :D

  28. AgentAtomic Wednesday 21st Dec 2011 at 09:40

    I sure hope Letterbox (Swapnote) gets released on Thursday in Australia too, I've been waiting for too long to be able to message my friends back in England who hardly ever go on Facebook but are on their 3DS everyday!

  29. Lil Gracie Wednesday 21st Dec 2011 at 10:09

    This is great news! This app will be really useful as, just like CyberGW said earlier, you will be able to chat with your friends and not be restricted with how much text you can type, meanwhile, organising events will be made a lot easier! And you can do many more things than just chat, another up side. I've been looking forward to this app for a while, and finding out we will be getting it tomorrow is fantstic!

  30. Mario84 Wednesday 21st Dec 2011 at 10:34

    Yey! Mighty Switch Force is a decent price!!! - Day one purchase!

    Now, if only they could follow suit with Shantae.....

  31. fisher2007 Wednesday 21st Dec 2011 at 13:37

    Oh yeah! I'm gonna be using Letter Box alot, especially with organising Mario Kart races when I get it for Christmas!
    Finally, the days of having chats with just your tiny little Friend List motto are over!

    I'm gonna use Nintendo Letter Box app a lot as well also can't wait.

  32. Silverkin Wednesday 21st Dec 2011 at 20:46

    i have no one to talk to on letterbox :(

  33. WolfyWardark Thursday 22nd Dec 2011 at 09:39

    Went to access eShop this morning and was greeted by a System Update.. not sure what it did though.

  34. mudkipzman Thursday 22nd Dec 2011 at 11:43

    whooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

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