Carnival Games for wii

[Ponyone]

Anyone going to get this/even heard about it?

http://www.globalstarsoftware.com/carnivalgames/

If it plays as good as wiisports, they'll have a winner.

I hope skeeball works well with the controller, I love me some skeeball.

[Gamingking]

I haven't heard of it til now. It seems interesting.

[Ponyone]

Yeah, it seemed to kind of fly under the radar. I only knew about it from a gamestop free magazine.

25 games plus you get "cool" prizes for winning the games, like you would at a carnival.

If skeeball plays great, it's a purchase for me. They better not screw with my emotions.

[GM80]

After glancing at the screenshots, one of my pet peeves about the Wii library rears its head. Why the heck would this game NOT use Mii characters instead of the developers creating their own "Mii-like" character designs?

Is Nintendo locking third party devs out of Mii access, or does no one "get it" that Miis are part of the draw for the system?

[studvicious]

Is Nintendo locking third party devs out of Mii access, or does no one "get it" that Miis are part of the draw for the system?

I could be wrong but I did hear from somewhere that it is in fact Nintendo making it a pain in the butt to put Mii's in games (other than Nintendo's games that is).

But I wouldn't put my money on that, it's just something "the internets" told me.

[swlovinist]

Great idea, it fits the Wii. This might be a purchase for me.

[FantasiaWHT]

Interesting? I wonder if they'll have an "authentic" mode where the gunsights are intentionally skewed, the 100 pt holes are actually too small for the balls, and the wiimote wafts out the scent of vomit and cotton candy?

On a more serious side, I wonder how the baseball games (knock down the three jugs and dunk tank) will work?

[GrandAmChandler]

I want this just for skeeball. That is all.

-GAC-

[Ponyone]

Interesting? I wonder if they'll have an "authentic" mode where the gunsights are intentionally skewed, the 100 pt holes are actually too small for the balls, and the wiimote wafts out the scent of vomit and cotton candy?

On a more serious side, I wonder how the baseball games (knock down the three jugs and dunk tank) will work?

That would actually be pretty cool. There could be a carnie career mode where you pick shitty prizes that cost 15 cents, set ticket prices to 5.00, rig games.. and have your friends try to play.

I hope they incorporate Wii Fit so you can guess people's weight.

[GM80]

Rented this last night. It's pretty fun, in a "let's hang out and do something" sort of way. My wife and I played after putting our boy down to sleep last night, and I even picked up some cotton candy and circus peanuts at the rental store to enhance the atmosphere. Bom-chicka-wah-wah.

Controls are easy, if imprecise. There are a metric buttload of carnival games, as well, probably 40 or so. Most are recognizable, like ring toss and skeeball (plays like WiiSports Bowling).

Very WiiSports-like in its presentation, which makes the fact that it doesn't use Miis all the more irksome. Everyone in the park looks like a Mii, but they're not. Come on, Nintendo, give the devs some Mii love.

[PapaStu]

Is Nintendo locking third party devs out of Mii access, or does no one "get it" that Miis are part of the draw for the system?

At least as of right now Nintendo isn't letting anyone thats not a Nintendo developer even think about touching the Mii's in game. EA has tried to get the Mii's for their MySim game and were shutdown. Others have also asked and told to take a hike as well. At some point they'll let the cat out of the bag, but I don't think that is going to happen for a while.

[Ponyone]

It's a pretty fun game so far. I'd call it wii-sports lite. All games are pretty good control wise, if not too realistic. They all feel kind of "slow" too, but everything pretty much works. The only qualm I have is the basketball game. I have no idea how they want you to aim (by twisting the wiimote?)

Lots of games, great for multiplayer competitions. Will probably get boring quicker than wiisports, but it's still a good time.

In one player mode, you can even play the coin game (the one where you put a quarter in the slot and try to push all the other quarters off the edge) and other little fun stuff.

I'd say my favorites so far are skeeball, clown throw, cup game, at the races, and milk game toss. Probably some more but I forget.

[SaturnFan]

$40?No.
$10? Yes.

These type games are not worth paying over $10.

[neogamer]

$40?No.
$10? Yes.

These type games are not worth paying over $10.

Come on. If it was only one or two, I would agree, but you do get a lot of games for the price.

On the other hand, it is a bit "gimmicky" and will probably drop in price in the coming months, much like Marble Mania did!

[SaturnFan]

Come on. If it was only one or two, I would agree, but you do get a lot of games for the price.

On the other hand, it is a bit "gimmicky" and will probably drop in price in the coming months, much like Marble Mania did!

How much is Marble Mania now?

[neogamer]

How much is Marble Mania now?

Was $40 when released-now you can find it for $25, if you look hard enough.

I bought mine for $30 at Game Crazy.

[Flack]

My son and I played it for a couple of hours this morning. Most of the games are simple "one-trick ponies". On this game you point and shoot. On this game you flick your wrist. On another one you press a button at a specific time.

Since a couple of people mentioned skeeball, I'll address it. First you align your character like you do in Wii bowling (d-pad, move left and right and turn left and right). After that you just flick the wiimote, no button needed. If you flick the remote too hard on the way back the game registers that as a throw. We found we had to slowly lower the remote to our sides before "throwing" the ball.

In single player mode you can win tickets, and some of the attractions take tickets. My son played forever to win tickets so he could play "the claw" and, just like in real life, he couldn't win anything on this crane machine either. Go figure.

It's another one of those games that might be fun at a party for people who have never played with a Wii before, but it's pretty unlikely that anyone will sit around for multiple days playing this, especially in single player mode.