Tag: Wii Sports

Wii Sports lives on with Nintendo Switch Sports

Yes, there will be bowling.

Remember the good old days when everyone would huddle around the TV and get far too competitive over Wii Sports? Well, prepare to relive those memories with Nintendo Switch Sports.

Announced during Wednesday’s Direct, Nintendo Switch Sports is a spiritual sequel of sorts to the Wii Sports series. Classic sports like bowling and tennis are returning, while new additions such as soccer, volleyball, and badminton will be in this iteration. There’s also chambara, one of many minigames in Wii Sports Resort.

Watch the Nintendo Switch Sports reveal trailer for yourself, then prepare to sift through countless memories of grandpa blitzing everyone at tennis via Wiimote. Hard times those were. 

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Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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The 10 greatest video game launch titles of all time

Every games console has to start somewhere — but some have more talent for killer day-one games than others.

Imagine being in charge of launching a new game console. Once the really hard work is done — thinking of a cool name, capitalizing a letter somewhere in the middle, drawing endless controllers, and disseminating them to game’s sites — you’ve actually got to convince studios to make games for it. At a time when the user base is zero. 

Sometimes you get a Battle Arena Toshinden, and sometimes you get one of these Hall of Famers, who can take at least partial credit for their entire platform’s commercial success. In fact, they’re still worth playing now, even though their associated hardware may be out of production, and found only in attics and pawnshop windows. Not bad for a shot in the dark on launch day.

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