Atari has announced today that it will publish videogame versions of the popular block tower building game, Jenga, for the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS. Each game will take advantage of the innovative controls of each system, and "will offer unpredictable, quick-paced, tactical play that combines suspense and risk-taking, where mounting anticipation comes to a crashing climax." I smell an M rating ...
The titles will feature realistic block physics, single and multiplayer modes, and other enhancements including power-ups. The screenshots (taken from the Wii version of the title) show off a number of different environments, as well as various avatars, including a shark. Personally, I can't think of an animal that could possibly be worse at Jenga than a shark -- how would it be able to grab a block with those unwieldy fins?
Jenga will be released this November, and I can't wait, beacuse picking up blocks after you knock them down is old news.
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6:55 PM on 07.06.2007
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I can already feel the pressure mounting
The entire concept of this existing in video game form. :)
Err... uh, Yeah. Anyways...
Jenga is an amazingly fun game at parties... but, let's be serious here, this is one of those things that did NPT need a video game makeover.
npt...
NPT = NOT*
"Hey everyone, I got an idea. Instead of spending $5 for a real Jenga set, lets spend $40 on a virtual one. It will be so fun"
X_X
HAH! That picture is amazing.
And seriously, I would so play this game on the Wii. Lazy? Yeah. But it looks fun, for sure.
Hungry Hungry Hippos on Wii, DS, PS3, and XBLA.
Believe it!
D:
I often think that web writers and organizatios have an undue pretentiousness over any mild popular success. You sir, hower, deserve something better than a Nobel prize for that line.
Wiimote accelerometers are kind of jittery (Like most), and if Jenga isn't frustrating enough, this would be the game which destroys my TV.
Also it's a Wii screen with barely-above-DS graphics.