Here we are in the third week of WiiWare and we still feel like we aren't able to equip you guys and gals properly for your buying decisions. We feel pretty confident about Dr. Mario, if you aren't burnt out on it, but we have literally no clue about Family Table Tennis. Let us know in the comments if you give either one a spin.
Dr. Mario Online Rx (Nintendo, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points): It's the classic Dr. Mario that you have played a thousand times love, wherein an Italian plumber tosses more pills then Amy Winehouse to practice medicine completely without a license. But Nintendo has added new multiplayer modes, including a Friend Battle Demo that you can play with someone who doesn't own the game.
Family Table Tennis (Aksys Games, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points): You can probably figure out what to expect here. It's table tennis (though we don't know if it uses the Wiimote's motion sensing). What we'd like to bring up is this line from the press release: "Just like a real family, choose your character from a cast of four, which includes Daddy, Mommy, Sarah and Billy." What sort of Cold War-era ethics are you trying to impose on our families, Nintendo? Even more sinister is the release's insistence that the game includes "four table tennis-tastic stages." Table tennis-tastic? We don't care what anyone tells you, that collection of words and punctuation means nothing.
Looking forward to this one, but it's a bit soon for me to justify it's purchase just yet. I bought Wii Fit on a whim. That's enough spontaneity for me.
An incredibly, Wang Chungingly, devo-ly cheesy golden age, but a golden age nonetheless
Any decade that could give birth to Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, and the best of the six Star Wars movies, the NES, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has to be a golden age
yeah, actually i agree with you and disagree. the 80s were so campy that its fun to look back on, but at the time (from what little i remember, im only in my mid 20s) it was terrible.
but the videogame commercials from mid 90s on up.. golden. i wish we had commercials like that still.
The kid in that commercial went to my college. He wore Star Trek jumpsuits and moon shoes. His campus tours would draw huge crowds as he used a lightsaber as a pointer. He was also in the "fruit-kerplopple" Skittles ad.
