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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:01PM (Unverified) said

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Fuck you, HUDSON!

Adventure Island isn't even very GOOD.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:58PM (Unverified) said

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I said the same thing when I saw this. LOL!
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:02PM kingofwale said

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I wonder how figure skating game will incorporate the use of Wiimote.

Maybe you are supposed to use a Wiimote as a goldbar and bribe the other judges.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:10PM Shagittarius said

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You hit the other skaters over the head with it.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 1:10PM Booxatron said

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Or in the kneecap?
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:10PM teamsammalone said

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I'm looking forward to the curling...

Honestly though, this Sports Island (I think that's the new title) has been getting some decent previews. If the girlfriend will play it and it has a couple of good drinking game qualities it may be worth it.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 2:41PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

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Sports Island is the EU name. Deca Sporta was the JP title, which has been slightly modified to Deca Sports for NA.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 3:01PM teamsammalone said

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gotcha, too much time on jeuxfrance...
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:14PM (Unverified) said

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if soccer moms would stop buying this crap then companies would quit making it. You'd be surprised how many copies of games like "Carnival Games" and "Game Party" I sell every week.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:21PM (Unverified) said

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But no more than Mario Galaxy or Guitar Hero III... you know, real games.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 1:41PM jynxycat said

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"But no more than Mario Galaxy or Guitar Hero III... you know, real games."

I'm sure you'd be surprised.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2008 9:13PM (Unverified) said

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What I find interesting is that so many people are hating on the Wii. NO really, can't we just like a different kind of system and keep our angry snips to ourselves. I deleted mine after I wrote them, although it was tempting to compare avatars to D & D.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:19PM (Unverified) said

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the Wii gimmick strikes again!
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:37PM Duke said

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How can this shock people now? Seems nintendo is pleased with the Wii being a minigame machine as the casual gamers who they look for suck this crap down.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 1:20PM (Unverified) said

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yup, i've given up hoping nintendo changes. They sold out big time with the wii, allowing crap title after crap title on the wii just for some easy money. Part of me can't really blame them though, because when they were an actual game company they kept getting smoked by sony and microsoft.

Still, after growing up with nintendo and some good memories in the early-mid 90s, a little bit of my gamer side dies everytime i see shit like this come out.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 1:53PM (Unverified) said

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"Still, after growing up with nintendo and some good memories in the early-mid 90s, a little bit of my gamer side dies everytime i see shit like this come out."

Then you're looking back with rose colored glasses. Sure, the NES had Super Mario 3 and Battletoads, but it also had Yo Noid and Castelian. In fact, it probably had the worst ratio of bad to good games of any console ever (save maybe the PS1).

The SNES might have had Chrono Trigger and Super Mario World, but it also had Dream TV and Revolution X.

Every generation of consoles has it's share of bad games, and if the worst we're going to get for Wii is a glut of mediocre minigame collections then they're doing quite well. Sure, I'm sick of them too, but it's just par for the course.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 2:00PM (Unverified) said

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I have the cartridge with the box, manuals of Dream TV... damn... the cover looked cool.

=(
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 2:43PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

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I'll be honest:

I enjoyed Revolution X as a kid. What was so bad about it, anyways? :S
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:43PM Nigeria said

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Exploitable?

No.

I'll go back into the corner now.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:48PM JRMG said

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These types of games have inundated the DS market in Japan for a while now. It's just another pattern that, most likely, will not be repeated in the US. Certainly no one reading joystiq is going to buy this, so it's pretty pointless to use this game in order to put down the Wii.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 12:52PM ThornedVenom said

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At this point, we should just create an association against crappy Wii minigames.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 1:01PM (Unverified) said

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It shall be known as: Gamers Against Youngsters Playing Everyone Rated Software On Nintendo
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 1:10PM (Unverified) said

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I see what you did there.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 1:15PM (Unverified) said

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Best organization name since Citizens Raging Against Phones.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 1:53PM (Unverified) said

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Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety?

:)
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 2:56PM (Unverified) said

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Wow. Looks like the 12-year-olds are out in force today.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 7:08PM (Unverified) said

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Yep. Or maybe you didn't get the reference.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 2:04PM samfish said

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It's kinda sad that you're all just jumping on the "all mini-games suck" hate wagon, kids.

If you've been paying attention, you'd know that this one looks to actually be a promising, good game.

Honestly, there's a bigger glut of FPS games than there are mini games right now.
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 4:26PM Mr Khan said

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Aye, deca sporta is one of the good ones, like the original raving rabbids, and a handful of other casual titles

fling the hate at those who deserve it, like Carnival Games (shudders)
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Posted: Jan 3rd 2008 3:03PM teamsammalone said

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Yo! Noid is not bad.
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