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Wii Warm Up: Wii Continue Playing

by JC Fletcher on Dec 15th 2008 8:00AM

Wii Play. About half of US Wii owners have a copy, and it's just as popular around the world. That means that you probably have it! Getting an extra set of games for $10 when you buy a second (essential) controller is pretty compelling.

If you are a Wii Play owner, do you still get the disc out occasionally? Which games have endured? And, for context, how long have you had the thing? In our last Wii Play post we heard some support for the Tanks! minigame, a sentiment we certainly share. We'd be all about an expanded WiiWare Tanks!

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I still play billiards now and then. I think that game alone is worth the $10 bucks. The tank game is kinda cool too.

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I played billiard quite a lot - before I got myself DS...

Oh mah gawd I love Tanks. I was thinking about playing it recently, just because it's so fun. I think I'll do that as soon as I finish what I'm currently doing...

Oh, I've owned the Wii Play since before I got a Wii...because I didn't have my own remote for when I played Wii at friend's houses.

Wii Play got some use two days ago in my Wii.

Wii play, like most mini games I own would probably get more play if I could download the mini game I want to the harddrive (like a VC or wii ware game). So tanks would be like a channel on the home screen then I could just play it whenever. I guess I just dont always have the motivation to change disks! Especially if I just want to play for < 20 min. Yea, I know, I'm lazy.

For me, the shooting and tanks are definitely worth the $10. I've probably only spent about 5-6 hours total on wii play, and havent played it in a few months.

That is very true. Now, I don't have Wii play (since it's not bundled with the 'mote over here) but damn how nice if something like Wii tennis would be saved as a channel!

Tanks is great. Expand it, give it a level editor and battle mode and put it online and I'd gladly plunk down a couple bucks for it again.
Air Hockey is pretty cool, too.

I don't have it. I already have two remotes and, so all in all, I didn't see any need to get it. Maybe I'll pick it up used at some point for ten bucks or something.

Judging from the Nintendo Channel stats, Wii Play gets A LOT of play.

I actually hated Wii Play and traded it in a while back. I wish they put more time into it since it always seemed like a demo disk to me.

I liked Wii Play. When I first got it, I played through all the games, and then I recently realized that on a second play-through you can earn medals! And played through them all again.

Tanks is an awesome game, by far my favorite. Air Hockey is good too... Only one I REALLY didn't like was Pose Mii, and Find Mii is kind of annoying too.

Haven't played this in some serious months but Tanks is the best. I also don't mind air hockey and fishing

I still play it now and then when I'm in the mood for some Billiards action.

I don't play it myself anymore, but I fire it up every couple of months when my mom comes to visit. She loves the 9-ball game.

One of these days I should fire it up and try beat the ping pong game. IIRC, you need to hit 100 in a row to beat it and my best was 98 (CHOKE).

I don't really play Wii Play much anymore. The only time it really gets used is when my friends who don't have a Wii come over to play.

Tanks is awesome.

After many, many, many hours my friend and I finally were able to beat all the levels.

The other games were also good, like Find Mii.

What's going on here!?! Tanks is most certainly awesome but what about COW RACING!?!? jumping to make the cow moo is almost as entertaining as intentially getting hit with a panda in wii fiit

Find Mii is like crack.

I would like a wiiware tanks with more levels, 4 players and level editor.

I love tanks because it reminds me of battle city for the nes, wich I played a lot. Hail namco for creating that game.

I love the tank game but i wish it had a password system or a cheat to skip the first couple levels. i get tired of having to go back and replay the easy levels.

I agree with that. I was playing a lot of tanks trying to advance, but I got tired of going through all of the levels I had already beaten over and over again.

My buddy and I used to play a lot of the duck shooting game, but it was replaced by Ghost Squad. I still fire up tanks from time to time single player or multi player.

I was impressed with Wii Play at first, but how naive i was. The only games i really enjoy are the shooting game (because it brings me back to the glorious days of playing Duck Hunt) and Tanks (once again because it brings me back to another amazing game from childhood: Battle City). And with a Nyko PerfectShot, those games are even better. I must say that the other games have no replay value.

Tanks!, Charge! (the cow racing game), Shooting Range, and Laser Hockey are all pretty good, at least for a few minutes, but like others have said, I mostly only get out Wii Play when people unfamiliar with the Wii visit.

i Hate changeing the disks in the wii so i bulit a thing in front of the wii that holds the disks like this

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with a moter to slide them back and fourth in frount of the wii so now i just press the butten of what disk i want!

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