If you're anything like us, one of your chief complaints of Nintendo's waggle-enabled phenom isn't the dearth of games that really push the control mechanism in new directions, it's the lack of minigame compilations! Sure, the system comes with Wii Sports, Ubisoft gave us Rayman Raving Rabids, Nintendo brought us WarioWare: Smooth Moves and Wii Play, EA's got EA Playground, Nintendo still has Mario Party 8, and now Take-Two is sending us down the midway with Carnival Games. Sure, that sounds like a lot for a system that's only six months old.
But we can't help ourselves. The thought of playing "25 of the most popular games seen in midways and boardwalks throughout the world, including Clown Splash, Milk Can Toss, Nerves of Steel, Lucky Cups, Hoops, Day at the Races and the crowd-favorite Dunk Tank" has us all worked up. Announced at the Nintendo Media Summit, happening right now in Seattle, Carnival Games is due this summer for the reasonable price of $40. C'mon fella, it's just $40! Don't you wanna win a bear? Lookit' that, guy won't spend a couple bucks to win his special friend a teddy bear. I'll give ya 25 games for the price of one, just for you fella.
I will have buy a third copy of this game to remind you how GREAT it will be. My friend code is 12454643636243624575373578456854. Can you remember that?
of course jack! the friend code will be easy to remember. it's just that simple! I would send you my friend code, but there is probably a limit on how many characters you can type in one of these comments. Besides, I wouldn't want to accidentally offend someone by having the numbers six and nine next to eachother.
No problem Jody! We have 6 hours to download your friend code. It will make the smile on my face even wider. We better open up a secure site so no one get offended. Good thinking!
I would think that the games wouldn't be rigged. If the games were rigged, it might make people mad, and if it makes people mad, it's not allowed to be posted about on joystiq.
then again, chris grant posted this, and he is above the rules that he sets for everyone else.
The game will undoubtedly sell millions, but if they were to include a free funnel cake and bratwurst on a stick with every purchase, they could sell TRILLIONS!
I don't think anyone would mind if both of you got banned. You're acting like children regardless of whatever immature point you're trying to make. If joystiq rules make you that upset, then go play somewhere else. Unless it's just about your ego.
You know mindless dribble about how awesome is when it isn't seems to be just as fun as mindless dribble about how horrible something is when it isn't.
Man I never get enough of spinning that wiimote in circles, or flicking while holding the B button, or randomly slashing it through the air. This game will certainly be simply amazing. I love minigames.
I hope the instructions will be just as unhelpful as in those other games because it only adds to difficulty and replay value since you have to take the time to actually figure out how to play the game. Who needs instructions anyways motion controls are so self explanatory, anyone can pick them up.
no, fwace, its about having fun. we did have fun flaming eachother, but we are not allowed to do that anymore. Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. I forgot how jack and I are not allowed to have fun, because you deem it so.
Also people like myself had fun watching those wars progress. I have really got into the heat of things but it was certainly fun (most of time to read). These "rules" almost make want to start trolling myself for no reason. Anyway I guess C. Grant you've made my boss happy cause I'm going to now go on and get some work done, which for some reason right now seems more interesting than this site. Cheers
You know what would be AWESOME? If somebody came out with a Wii game of "Ball in a Cup".
Obligatory Family Guy quote: "Hey kids of America, its hand painted wooden ball-in-a-cup, Mexico's favorite toy for over 340 years. Who needs constant video game stimulation when theres ball-in-a-cup? You just toss the ball, catch it in the cup, dump it out of the cup, toss it, and catch it in the cup again. The ball is on a string and attached to the cup, so theres no worry if you dont catch the ball in the cup. And clean up is as easy as catching a ball, in a cup. So why spend another day not catching a ball in a cup when you can be catching a ball-in-a-cup?"
I remember those days. It was elementary school. As the years drag on we become more knowledgeable and thus far more jaded. Life was simple back then: "Sonic 3? Booyah!" "I'm gonna draw Mario for art class!" "I'm gonna make my own video games!"
I found joystiq at work, now im back at uni doin my masters (yes, i can read and right and spel properlee, im not just teh fanboy)
just wondering, what does everyone else do all day long? me group meetings, lectures, coursework, joystiqing between meetings, lectures and coursework.
On topic:
not looking forward to more mini games, but I'll reserve judgment till I play it.
I create models, assy & drawings for Hawker BeechCraft Corporation using Solidworks & Catia. The first 6 months was fun but after 2 years I could shoot myself. I blog Joystiq when Engineering Manager is not around or when a Assy is not hot.
CARNIES... now with child molesting, alcoholic CARNIES...!!!
every single post on the site today is a big whine-fest. the site should be called whine-stiq. who's this site's favorite musician...? amy WHINE-house. God I hate whiners... I can't come to this site aanymore...
I'm a network/workstation admin for a small aerospace manufacturing company. So I spend most of my day in front of the computer. So I like to check in on Joystick while I'm waiting for an install to finish, or wating on someone to get back with me about a problem, etc...
Jack,
Hey! Sounds like you are in the same business as me, except you are on the engineering side. I've done quite a few Inventor, Catia, AutoCAD, etc... installs here. We make part for various aircraft companies.
