After shipping "more than one million units worldwide" with its debut title on the Wii, Take-Two just announced plans to expand its Carnival Games brand with two new mini-game miasmas: Carnival Games for DS and Carnival Games: Mini-Golf for Wii. We expect both to cash in on those nostalgic memories of trips to the carnival with grandpa, including that completely non-hilarious time you stuck your arm too deeply into the cotton candy machine.
The DS version will demand interaction through a "frenzied combination" of stylus maneuvering, tapping, speaking and blowing (no surprise there), and will feature games such as Alley Ball, Frog Leap and the intriguing "Clown Hammer." Do we bludgeon the clowns or do we wield them? We'll find out in Summer.
As for the Wii's Carnival Games: Mini-Golf, it comes exclusively to Wii and can best be described as "a hole in fun," it says here. A myriad of miniature golf courses awaits up to four players when it releases in Fall 2008. Say Harley Howe and Patrick Wilkinson, studio heads of 2K Play's Cat Daddy Games, "These new titles in our growing Carnival Games franchise are fun, have true-to-life physics and deliver on the promise of the original: you can almost smell the cotton candy."
Reader Comments (10)
Posted: Mar 11th 2008 5:23PM (Unverified) said
Ladies and gentlemen: I present your best selling Wii game for Q4 '08
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Posted: Mar 11th 2008 5:24PM Mr Khan said
Something both Wii fanboys and haters can agree on is a distaste for this series. How exactly is this selling, its even poor within its genre of party games. Wario Ware, two Rabbids games, Wii Play, and that Ninja Reflex game, these readily top that trash
To each his own, but still...
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To each his own, but still...
Posted: Mar 11th 2008 6:00PM (Unverified) said
Simple, they advertised it to the right people. Unlike Metroid Prime 3, which they tried to promote on one of those 'Wii would like to play' commercials.
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Posted: Mar 12th 2008 4:04AM BurntMeatloaf said
There's a HUGE poster for this game in my local Toys "R" Us game center, which spans half the room. The other half is occupied by a Mario Galaxy banner (which, BTW, is chronically out of stock).
The game is selling because it's well promoted. I guess they had to so something with all that money they're not spending on actual development.
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The game is selling because it's well promoted. I guess they had to so something with all that money they're not spending on actual development.
Posted: Mar 26th 2008 1:28AM hvnlysoldr said
Perhaps they sold a million as prizes at carnivals instead of stuffed dolls and goldfish.
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