I know there must have been a time in my life when I enjoyed going to the carnival. Don’t get me wrong, I would still kill a man for some funnel cake, but nowadays, when I think of a carnival, all I imagine are scary clowns and rusty, tetanus-ridden Tilt-a-Whirls run by toothless carnies. What happened to all the fun I used to remember?
Well, Take-Two (in association with its publishing label Global Star Software) hopes to bring back everything that was nifty about the good ol’ bowler hat wearin’ state fair days with Carnival Games, a Wii-exclusive coming to Nintendo’s system this summer.
The game is designed (from the ground up!) for up to four players, will feature over 25 of the most popular carnival games, and offer up to 250 upgradeable prizes. While my “ho-hum” alarm goes off every time a new minigame collection is announced for the Wii, who knows what Carnival Games has in store for us under that mysterious facade of mediocre graphics? A game that has skee ball in it can’t be all that bad, right? Right? Skee ball? Anyone?
What do you think? Have you hit your Wii minigame threshold? Like me, are you unbelievably fascinated by whoever directed the above trailer (assumed overused line of direction to the actors: ‘Almost there – try taking it up a notch or two!’)?
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4:48 PM on 05.22.2007
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I bought a videogame system, not a minigame system.
Like hell I'm going to turn on my Wii, load in the disc, stand up, move my table, and try to translate waggle to rigged carnival games.
Actually I'm not. That was a lie.
You bought the wrong system dude. I'm not sure why you're expecting more out of the Wii.
I think my mom tried to give me a high-five.
I am absolutely sure that those hoops are too small for that basketball.
I'm not even going to bother [i]attempting[/] to buy a Wii until Smash Brothers comes out.
Each and every day, I grow closer and closer to Summa's 'Wii Sucks' club.
Unless its got a "hose down the freaks" game, I'm writing this one off.
I'm not expecting more, I'm expecting less. Less minigames.
I'm also expecting Mario, Metroid and Smash Bros, which again, is nothing more than what I'd usually expect.
I do however, expect a hell of a lot more from my PS3.
Should sell a million.
Thaaaaat's Wii!
This game looks like it was made by complete assholes. I hate it.
I too, expect to expect things.
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I wish I was dead.
Plus the music was trying to be fun and friendly, yet I there are only two types of people who regularly suffer this sonic torture - the clinically depressed and the terrorist suspects at the Guantanamo Bay dentention centre.
By the way, fuck off Summa. Once again using the ground below the bottom of the barrel to fuel you're anti Wii propaganda. Hey Summa, I once met a Chinese guy I didn't like, guess they're all pricks yeah. Yeah?
This game is truly bringing the experience home, except for collecting tickets for over-sized stuffed Elmos and Scooby Doos
I want to stab every person involved in the making of this commercial, in the eye. I want to disembowel the baristas who made the coffee order for the producers of this commercial, and force the rest of the crew such as the grips and camerapeople to eat his intestines.
And they say video games make you violent. JT is going after the wrong people
Sounds like a real exercise in frustration, unless (I suspect) the game has a lot of fudge factors and handicaps so the game almost ends up playing itself.
Eh, who am I kidding? This game will sell by the truckload anyway. Casual gamers don't have the experience to know about interface and ergonomic issues. I just has to look cool.
Except, this doesn't look cool. At all.
Anyone want to buy some wii games? I am sick of this shit.