Jenga On Your Favorite Nintendo Console?
Remember those commercials for Jenga in the 80's (or the 90's, since that whole childhood era kind of runs together) that made it look like the coolest party game to come along since body shots? It was the kind of thing that really went well with wine coolers, shrimp cocktail and khakis. So why not bring it to a new generation of cool seekers by making it a video game released just in time for the ultra cool holiday season this year?
Atari is doing just that with developers Atomic Planet, known for their hand in the Mega Man: Anniversary Collection. In development for the Wii and the DS for this November, both games will combine their innovative control capabilities with a reportedly impressive physics engine to bring that famous wood to your hands without ever having to actually touch one. Which, if you ask me, is a real shame.
I understand the appeal of the Wii and DS as a vehicle to bring gaming to a whole group of people that have been put off by games either for being too difficult or esoteric, but I really hope this isn't the beginning of a whole bunch of board game remakes. But hey, there's a market for anything, I suppose. People are obviously still buying khakis right? Shudder.
Pirate Prince
Posted to Video Games on 6 July 2007
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"really went well with wine coolers, shrimp cocktail and khakis."
I thought you said "coolest".
That said, I would totally have bought those board game and Uno compilations from 2005 if they featured wifi play, and I would still buy a Monopoly, Uno or Scrabble with wifi play. (Clubhouse Games is good, but I didn't grow up playing centuries-old games from the public domain, I grew up playing Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly.)
And if I see this on a DS demo station or see a video of someone playing the Wii version and it looks good, I might try it. But the DS version would have to have wifi. I'll give Wii games another six months or so before expecting online play for multiplayer-intensive games.