Itadaki Street is a series that is built into the fabric of gaming in Japan. It was one of the first fan-service games ever, allowing players to play a board game as a Dragon Quest character. Now for the first time one is coming out in English on the Wii, published by Nintendo as Fortune Street.

The game is developed and published by Square-Enix in Japan, and it is basically a Monopoly-style board game where you race around a board buying, selling and trading properties. As you collect properties adjacent to one another they grow in value and you can charge other players who land on your shops a higher fee. While this sounds remarkably similar to Monopoly, there are some more advanced features to the game, such as a stock market. We’ll have to wait for the hands-on previews to get more details.

In Fortune Street you will be able to play as Dragon Quest characters or as Mario or other Mushroom Kingdom characters. Up to four players can play on one Wii console, and the game features 15 different boards to play on. Nintendo assure us the game will be out in the US in 2011, “Holiday 2011” to be precise.

Check out the heap of screenshots Nintendo have released below:

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El33tonline’s Lisa recently partook in a whirlwind tour of New York City while visiting the US on important business, and while taking in the sights and sounds of the Big Apple, she managed to visit the Nintendo World Store, snap some great pictures, and tell us all about the magical and storied location.

Unfortunately, though, Lisa just missed an appearance at the store by Mr. Nintendo himself, the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, as he and a crew of Nintendo executives descended upon the location to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros.

As something of a tiny consolation for everyone who missed his appearance at the store (including Lisa), Nintendo has released a fantastic special message from Miyamoto himself speaking about the 25th anniversary, what makes Mario so special, and what Nintendo has planned for fans to help celebrate the massive milestone.

Enjoy:

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Who says South Africa gets left out when it comes to great videogame content? Nay not I, and with the news that the country is set to receive ‘Super Mario All-Stars – 25th Anniversary Edition’ for the Wii in December, nay not you either!

Wipe the sleep from your eyes, do that double-take, pinch yourself and forcefully eject whatever is in your mouth right now, because it was recently announced that South African gamers, too, will be able to get their hands on the classic Mario game collection, which includes Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, all on one disk.

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Update Nintendo of UK has since released a press release confirming that Super Mario All-Stars – 25th Anniversary Edition will be available on the Wii across Europe on the 3rd of December.

The 25th Anniversary Edition will include four popular Mario NES games as well as extra collectibles. The Super Mario All-Stars disc will contain Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. It will also include a booklet detailing Super Mario’s full history and an audio CD featuring music spanning the last 25 years of Super Mario games. End of Update

Last month Super Mario Bros. celebrated its 25th anniversary and Nintendo revealed that a special ‘Anniversary Edition’ of the game would become available for the Wii on the 21st of October.

The only thing is that according to the publisher this Anniversary Edition would only be coming to Japan. Well there’s some good news for you today folks because it looks like the re-release of Super Mario All-Stars will be coming to Europe as well!

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Do you remember playing Super Mario Bros. on your NES way back in 1985? If you do, you deserve at least a modicum of respect because that means you’ve been playing games for at least 25 years.

Now go take your ‘old people pills.’ We’ll wait…

Hey, cheer up! You may be 25 years older than when you first experienced the joy of a side-scrolling Mario platform game, but that game is also 25 years old today, because on this day, September 13th in 1985, Super Mario Bros. was unleashed upon this earth.

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Nintendo’s E3 Press Conference was bubbling along in a reasonably interesting fashion with games like New Super Mario Bros Wii, Golden Sun DS and new Mario vs Donkey Kong game for DSiWare being announced alongside expected games like Wii Fit Plus and a slew of games that are already out in Japan on the DS.

But then the beautiful strains of Gusty Garden Galaxy blew over the audience and, surely, everyone had a smile on their face: Super Mario Galaxy 2. Yes!! The trailer showed Mario riding on Yoshi, and doing all manner of awesome things, just like he does in Super Mario Galaxy.

And when you thought that was all Nintendo would pull out of the bag (with the naysayers saying “relying on Mario, again…”), they showed a trailer of a new project called Metroid: Other M, a collaboration between Nintendo and Team Ninja! It looks very different in play style to the Metroid Prime series, with a mostly third person perspective and much more melee action (think Metroid crossed with Ninja Gaiden.)

More to come as and when screenshots and trailers are released.