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Wii Play: Game Review

Wii Play is a great value because it comes with 9 games and a free Wii Remote. The Wii Remote is $39.99 and Wii Play is a $49.99 game that comes with a Wii Remote. So getting a game and Wii Remote together was a good deal. This is a two player game where the contestants play 9 mini games. You have Shooting Range, Table Tennis, Fishing, Pose Mii, Billiards, Charge, Find Mii, Laser Hockey and Tanks.

Shooting Range: Fans of the original NES probably had the light gun and Duck Hunt, well shooting range gives a nod to Duck Hunt. Shooting Range brings the player through many stages of targets. I won’t ruin anything but the final stage is hilarious.

Table Tennis: Your basic Ping Pong game where you can also smash the ball back to the opponent if it is lobbed to you. You switch sides during play so each player gets to experience each side.

Pose Mii: With the Wii Remote you must turn your Mii left or right or upside down and place them in bubbles that match the position and the pose. You chance poses (3 of them) by pressing the A or B buttons. You can also freeze your opponent so they cannot get any bubbles for a few seconds.

Fishing: You use the Wii Remote to snag fish in a pond, sometimes there are bonus fish and sometimes you snag the small fry and lose points. My least favorite game here.

Laser Hockey: Like air hockey but faster and with more colors.

Find Mii: You have to use your memory and be quick. You must pick out a specific Miis from a group, your custom made Miis show up as well.

Charge: You saddle up and ride a cow and try to knock over scarecrows. This makes use of the Wii Remote in many ways, by titling it forward the cow leaps ahead and speeds down the track. If you pick the Wii Remote up the cow jumps. So you tear along the tracks and have great fun chasing down scarecrows while racing your friend.

Tanks: You move little tanks around the board and fire at other enemy tanks. You work together to complete the levels but the winner is the one who destroys the most tanks.

Billiards: You play nine ball and the action is pretty good. You use the Wii Remote like a pool cue and the actions are pretty intuitive.

Well, those are the 9 games of Wii Play. They are very good and it is fun to play a round of each game with two players and keep score as to how many games each person has won. I would have liked to have seen more players be able to play these games however. Two is just not enough people for a Wii party.

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The Wired Kayaker

Hi my name is Drew and welcome to the Wired Kayaker. This blog will be a combination of my love for Sea Kayaking and of Technology. I will attempt to seek out great places to kayak and great technology to use while kayaking. Eventually I will expand to other sports and outdoor activities but Kayaking is my main focus here. Look for more to come in the future.

A little about me and my kayaking. I started kayaking in 1997. I had read about the sport and researched things for about a year and one day with some disposable income in my pocket I went and outfitted myself for kayaking on flat water. I took the kayak down to the the water under the Kelly street bridge in Manchester and set about learning how to paddle. I had read the books and was reasonably sure I would do fine. I did and I loved kayaking from the first moment on the water.

I took my Kayak (A Blue Perception Acadia) to my house at the Cape and stored it there for the summer. That summer I looked for places to go kayaking. I met Fred Bull on my first tour. My father and I went with Fred on a tour of Waquiot Bay. That was one of the best trips I ever took because of how much I learned about an area that I thought I knew. But experiencing it directly on the water was fantastic.

I decided that I wanted to kayak more often and I looked for other trips to go on. I then got hooked up with Cape Cod Kayak because I went on one of their singles paddling tours. I was by far the youngest person on the water but I had a good time anyway. There I met the owner of Cape Cod Kayak, Kim.

In the summer of 2001 I worked for Kim as a guide and I worked in the retail store. I loved being on the water but had my fill of working at the store. I still go back and visit from time to time and occasionally my wife and I will go on a tour or two. This past summer we didn’t kayak a single time and this summer I vow not to let that happen again. That is one of the reasons for this blog. I intend to kayak as often as possible this season and put together some photos from each trip I take. I will try and get to as many different trips as I possibly can and give you information about each trip and location. While I kayak I will be working with different technology and write posts about those things that I use. There may even be some video and audio podcasts that come out of this project.

If you are a kayaker and you found your way here and have read to the bottom of this post then welcome. Leave a comment or stop by The Wired Kayaker forum.

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