Summary
WiiSports is not only one of the most well-loved video games of all time, but it’s also one of the best-selling. This was likely helped by it coming free with the Nintendo Wii, which is also one of the best-selling consoles, but that doesn’t diminish what a phenomenal title it is.
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Its sleek design and minimalist style made it one of the most widely accessible games to be enjoyed by players of all ages, rangingfrom children to senior citizens. While all the mini-games that came packaged together in Wii Sports had their own merits, a few of them are remembered as some of the greatest gaming experiences.
5Golf
As far as the usual golf video game controls go, the Wii Sports was pretty simple, with a select tool to decide where you wanted the ball to go, and then swinging the Wiimote at varying speeds to determine how hard you hit the ball.
Wii Golf was the most difficult, nuanced mini-game in the bunch, so it wasn’t as big with the game’s youngest and oldest players, but it was still a solid entry in the original lineup of Wii Sports games. It’s mostly just that golf isn’t remembered as the most exciting sport out there.
4Baseball
The Wii Baseball game could be a real hit or miss. This mini-game had players switching back and forth between pitching and hitting, of course following the real rules of baseball and switching off every three outs.
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Wii Baseball is up there with Golf in terms of its difficulty, because you need some precision to both throw and hit the ball in the right areas. It is also the game mode that you could spend some of the most time playing at once, as players liked to challenge themselves to reach the champion level of play as quickly as they could.
3Boxing
Anyone who’s played the Wii boxing mini-game knows for sure that it could get pretty intense. The game required you to repeatedly punch at your opponent using the Wiimote and the Nunchuk controller accessory, as well as dodge and block incoming hits from your opponent.
It felt like the motion-controlled older cousin of Punch-Out!! seeing as the difficulty of each opponent grew with each successive challenger you knocked out. Of all the original Wii Sports games, Boxing was going to get your heart rate up the most, so you’d have to go in prepared for something of a workout.
2Tennis
The Wii Tennis mini-game had an energy that couldn’t be matched by any of the other mini-games, and even though the characters onscreen would swing their rackets at the slightest provocation, there was something about it that still made you want to swing the Wiimote as hard as you could.
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This game also had an awesome sound design, the most memorable detail being the satisfying pop of hitting the tennis ball coming directly out of the Wiimote’s speaker. The couch co-op on Wii Sports Tennis could also get pretty intense, and countless TV screens were certainly smashed to bits in the midst of this (hopefully) friendly competition.
1Bowling
In all honesty, Wii Bowling was the pièce de résistance of the whole Wii Sports lineup. The premise and controls of this game were easy to understand for players of all ages, yet there was still enough skill required to make it a fun challenge for friends going head-to-head.
The simple swing-and-release mechanic mimicked the motion of real-life bowling quite nicely and was an excellent showcase for the Wii’s brand-new motion control technology. And who could forgetthe iconic way the Miis would do a little jumpwhen you sent the ball flying backward?
