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Game Party for the Wii console
This is part of a series about the Wii.
Who has the money to take themselves and/or the entire family to an amusement park these days? (Note: if you do, probably not the best time to wax on about it, given the economy).
If you’re strapped for cash but still crave fun, try Midway’s Game Party, which retails for about $15.99 at Amazon.
Gamers begin by choosing their players. The more they play, the more characters are unlocked in various settings, and it provides some mild amusement just looking at the various options for scenes and characters, including costumed people dressed in panda, pirate, and alien attire, hippies, cerebral types in turtlenecks, hipsters, etc. Spoiler alert: hard core gamers expecting fantastic graphics will be sorely disappointed.
Midway’s Game Party contains the following arcade games:
- Darts - Different options are available: high score, 301, 501, 701 and cricket. It’s definitely easier than the real thing because users first zero in on their target (the bull’s eye, of course) by clicking the “A” button and then “throw” the dart.
- Table Hockey - Definitely easier and faster in real life but fun nonetheless, once you get used to how your player's "arm" works and stop knocking it into your own goal.
- Skill Ball (aka Skeeball) - Like bowling in Wii Sports, users can move from left to right when they throw. I still haven’t figured out a way to use my hook shot, but it’s fairly authentic and not a dollar a game.
- Ping Cup - Users attempt to toss a ping pong ball into one of many cups. About as difficult as the real thing, but when it doesn’t cost $5 a go, you can actually work on your “skills.”
- Shuffle Board - LIke the golf option in Wii Sports, I don’t find shuffleboard all that much fun in real life so I can’t say I’m the best person to judge this game.
- Trivia - Users “spin” the wheel and answer multiple-choice questions in different categories (sports, general, history, kids, music and tv, politics). The “kid” option offers easier questions, but since one cannot purposely select that option every time, younger children might get a little frustrated with this game.
- Hoop Shoot - Absolutely addictive. Also, as one plays more, more ball/hoop options become available.
Of course Game Party can’t deliver the ambiance of the actual amusement park: the smell of cotton candy and candy apples wafting in the air, the frenetic energy of children crazied up on sugar, the roar of distant roller coasters. You can’t trade in the tickets you’ve won for small plastic "treasures." But when you’re strapped for cash, go to the park or the beach for an hour, then come home and play this. Good, cheap times.
For more info: For more information about the Wii, go here.
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