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| From: Midway Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $11.99
You Save: $8.00 (40%)
New (38) Used (10) from $11.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 50
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 19189
Model: 19189
UPC: 031719191895
EAN: 0031719191895
ASIN: B000SFK0SO
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Play seven of your favorite games: Play Darts, Table Hockey, Shuffle Board and Hoop Shoot, or try your hand at variations of classics like Skii Ball, Ping Cup, and Trivia. | | • | Fun, Easy Controls: Play your favorite games with the same motions you would in real-life. Slide your hand forward to hit a hockey puck, take aim and toss your dart at the dartboard, use a bowling motion to send you skii ball into a high scoring hoop. | | • | 175 Characters - 125 unique characters initially available, plus the chance to unlock 50 additional zany characters. | | • | Classic Venues: Each game features classic venues appropriate for each activity. Play darts in a British style eatery, Hoop Shoot in a sports entertainment center, and many more. | | • | Show Your Friends Who Rules: Participate in multi-player competitions, with friends in your home. Form teams to take on the competition and keep track of your progress on the leader boards. |
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Product Description
Game Party is designed exclusively for the Nintendo Wii game console. It brings all of the rec room classics to your living room, all in one package. Using the Wii Remote, guide your darts, slide your shuffleboard pucks, or launch your skii balls for the ultimate party experience. Up to four player can play at once! Other games include: Table Hockey, Trivia, Ping Cup, & Hoop Shot.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 91 more reviews...
 Cool game! January 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Purchased this game for the trivia, but ended up having more fun playing darts and basketball hoops with my friends. It took a while to figure out a technique for those games, but once we did, it was nonstop playing! If you're a darts player, then this game should be easy for you. You really need a steady hand and good timing coordination to aim and throw the dart at your intended target area. What's funny is, that same type of throwing works better for the basketball hoops game. Tried to shoot the ball like you normally would when playing basketball, but all the throws would go off to an angle. Couldn't figure out why that was happening when I was standing directly in front of the basket and throwing "straight". As a joke, my friend suggested throwing the ball like a dart, and when I tried it, the ball actually went in to the basket. Another thing good about the game is the expressions your character makes when you do a bad throw at darts. It's pretty hilarious! My friend enjoyed this game so much that he wants to get his own copy of the game. If you like these types of games, you can't go wrong with this one!
This is a great game -- I don't understand some of the criticism !?! January 3, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Usually, I don't leave reviews. But after seeing some of the negative comments about this game I wanted to dispel some of the criticisms out there...especially as we've been playing this for a week now, and have had an absolute blast!
Before I get to the game itself, for the benefit of people who are looking at this and trying to gauge the difference between the original and Game Party 2 (which is where I was a month ago), the major differences seem to be that V1 has air hockey and puck shuffleboard/curling, where V2 does not have air hockey, has puck bowling, and adds football, bean bags, lawn darts, & horseshoes. 2 also has the ability to customize characters where 1 just has a cast you can choose from. (While Miis would be nice, we didn't expect that of a non-Nintendo product.) We went with V1 on account that we were able to get it for half the price of V2, at the time we bought. Plus, we were told, and it proved true, that the air hockey in this feels more like the real deal than the laser hockey in Wii Play. But if you can live without air hockey and like the idea of the added games, V2 is probably the way to go.
Some of have criticized the control - or lack thereof - in some games, like ping cup, ski ball, and shuffleboard. MYTH. Like any game, you need to play them a few times to find your way. But we busted right into things without reading the instructions, and found the controls to be pretty intuitive. By the time I'd played ping cup three or four times, I was running off several in a row. Admittedly, ski ball and shuffleboard proved quirky at first, but, again, came around quickly. My 3-1/2-year-old has rolled a 300 in ski ball, so how hard can it be to get the ball down the lane...really?
If you do not have a dartboard, and enjoy throwing them when you get the chance, cricket alone is worth the price of admission. Trivia was fun to do with a room full of people, especially with a couple teams. Sure, ski ball and hoop shoot are 1-player-at-a-time, but it's not like you can't take turns !? And while 'beirut' isn't exactly something you want your kid mastering before they go off to college, the other games ought to save you a few trips to Chuck E. Cheese. (Hey, the game will pay for itself!)
Bottom line: some fun games; a great value; stuff you can do with family and friends that you would normally have to go out to do.
Mom and I Love this one! January 31, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
We absolutely love this one. Our favorite games are SkillBall(skeeball, Darts, and Shuffleboard. Can you imagne all thesegames for only $20! Who wouldn't be inclined to try it for that price. It is well worth it. I would pay the $$ for just Darts! The Ping Cups is rather time consuming and hard, but not impossible. We have both cleared the table many times. Mom isn't a trivia person, but I play that and enjoy it. We really had fun with 1 player mode and to make it more fun as a 2 player style game is alternate the remote and root eachother on. When you play the single player game, you win tickets and as you get those tickets you earn different bonus things to the games that you play in any mode! Totally fun and well worth the $$!!!!!!!!
Great for parties! January 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this game for my husband because we both enjoy the "Wii Sports" games and we thought this would give us a little more variety of games to play. Also, we enjoy the group aspect of the Wii and thought this would be fun to play during get-togethers.
We were right!
The games are fun. My one complaint about the games is that the Shuffle Board game is such a slow pace, but then again, it's shuffle board! Darts is our family favorite along with Skillball.
It's great for parties or just for groups in general, fun for all ages.
Fun for the whole family January 6, 2009
I purchased this game for my parents that are in their 50's for Christmas. They absolutely love it. The Shuffle Board is so much fun.
All the other games are fun as well, once you get the hang of controling yourself. I would highly recommend this game.
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The Nintendo Wii goes on sale on Sunday, November 19. Thanks to the inclusion of the simple--but infectiously fun--Wii Sports game, the Wii is the first console in recent memory that lets you have fun straight out of the box. Still, there are a few key Wii accessories you'll want to pick up to maximize your Wii experience--especially if you're buying it as a gift.
Extra controllers: Like all recent consoles, the Wii ships with just a single controller (well, one two-part controller: one Wiimote, plus one nunchuk). But the real fun of the system is playing the head-to-head Wii Sports games such as tennis and boxing. To do so, you'll need at least one extra set of controllers--and again, that's one Wiimote ($28.99) plus one nunchuk ($12.99). The Wii supports as many as four, but just the one extra controller set should suffice--at least for Christmas morning.
Rechargeable batteries: The Wiimote takes two standard AA batteries. They're included--with the Wii, and with the sold-separately version of the controller mentioned above--but avid players may find the juice draining pretty quickly, especially if they keep the nunchuk attached (it draws its power from the Wiimote). Instead of buying an endless stream of costly AAs, consider investing in a set of rechargeables. You can score a charger and four rechargeable nickel-metal-hydride batteries for less than $25.
GameCube controllers: The Wii is fully backwards compatible with the Nintendo GameCube, but there's a catch: to play the GameCube games, you'll need a GameCube controller ($15.99). You can even go wireless with the Nintendo WaveBird ($59.99). If you already have a GameCube, your existing controllers will work just fine--just plug them in to one of the four ports underneath the flip-up panel on the Wii's topside. GameCube controllers should also work with the Wii's "Virtual Console" games--which saves you the trouble of having to buy a Classic Controller.
GameCube memory cards: One other annoyance when playing GameCube games: your progress can only be saved to GameCube memory cards, not to the Wii's internal memory or to an SD card (we're hoping Nintendo fixes this with a future firmware update). Like the controllers, your old GC cards will work just fine--there are two slots right next to the GameCube controller ports. If you don't have any onhand (and you want to save your games on GC titles), you'll need to spring for a $26.90 (2GB) memory card.
Wii Points: One of the big attactions of the Wii is its Virtual Console, which lets you purchase classic games that originally came from the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the Super NES, the Nintendo 64, the Sega Genesis, and the TurboGrafx16. By the end of 2006, at least 30 titles should be available, including Donkey Kong (NES), Super Mario 64 (N64), and Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis). To purchase the downloadable titles, you'll need to use a Nintendo currency known as Wii Points (similar to the Microsoft Points on Xbox Live), which currently have an exchange rate of 100 points per U.S. dollar. You can buy Wii Points directly through the console's online store, or use prepaid cards (2000 Wii Points) available in various denominations.
SD card: If you're close to filling the Wii's built-in 512MB of storage with your Virtual Console games, you can always expand your available space with an SD card. Nintendo sells its own, but any run-of-the-mill card will do. Fairly spacious 1GB cards are available for less than $20--even less with mail-in rebates--and they'll work in plenty of other gadgets as well.
Wireless access point: In addition to the downloadable Virtual Console games, the Wii offers online "channels," including news, weather, and even an Opera Web browser (head-to-head online gaming is said to be coming sometime in 2007). You can get online for free via the Wii's built-in Wi-Fi. To do so, of course, you'll need a nearby wireless access point or router. Alternately, you can plug the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector into any nearby PC on a wired network, and the Wii--plus your Nintendo DS--will be able to use it to get online instead.
Component video adapter: The Wii doesn't have the graphical horsepower to handle high-def graphics, but it can do DVD-level 480p video, which will look considerably better on large HDTVs. To see the Wii's games in 480p, you'll need Nintendo's proprietary component video adapter, which should run about $20. |
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