Wii Sesame Street: Elmo’s A-to-Zoo Adventure

In Sesame Street: Elmo’s A-to-Zoo Adventure, kids head to the zoo with Elmo, Zoe and their animal friends, as they explore games based on a variety of literacy skills, including letter identification, letter sounds and word families. Kids can also explore exciting zoo habitats including the Aquarium, Savanna, Jungle, Wetlands and the Arctic.

Family Game Show

Family Game Show . Good evening and welcome to Family Gameshow! This will be the most fun you can have in front of your TV as you and your friends become contestants on the best Gameshow out there! Come and join me as you play three fantastic Gameshow formats, you can choose to play Control Freak, Hosted by Larry Lightfoot, Brain Strain, Hosted by Professor Plank or Puzzle Addict, Hosted by Tom Wordsworth. Let the show begin!

Marble Saga Kororinpa

Marble Saga Kororinpa allow fun customizations like designing the ball with attributes to helping you navigate through stages easier, to Miis and preset fun images, to an Edit Mode which allows for custom design of a unique stage. 4-person multiplayer mode allows players to compete with three other opponents on the same map as each race to the finish line. The Wii Connect 24 (enables you to remain connected to the Internet while the console is on standby) feature allows you to share the unique stages created with you friends or to receive extra stages from Hudson after the game’s launch via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Wi-Fi Leaderboards let you compete online against others to see who can navigate through the world the fastest.

Anthony’s quest for the Golden Sunflower! Set out upon an adventure with Anthony the Ant on his quest for the Golden Sunflower. Help guide Anthony¿s marble around the Ant World to gather essential items along the way in the ultimate goal to reach the Golden Sunflower and save his colony. Face treacherous mazes, use awesome gadgets and balance the world (literally) with fun and intuitive controls only available on Wii. Customization: 1. Design your ball: Use upgrades to help you navigate through stages, place your Mii inside of the marble and watch him or her roll, or select preset fun avatars including rolling UFOs complete with shrieking Aliens in them. 2. Can¿t get enough of the game? Edit Mode allows you to design your own unique stage. Design it any way you would like and play it over and over. Wi-Fi: 1. Wii Connect 24: After you are done creating and playing your own stages, share them with your friends through Wii Connect 24. 2. The Story Lives On: Receive extra stages from Hudson after launch via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. 3. Wi-Fi Leaderboards: Compete online against other players over who can navigate throughout the world the fastest. Wii Balance Board: Be the Ball using the Balance Board. Widgets and More Widgets: 40 different widgets to help guide your marble including magnets, cannon vaults, shrinking machines, acceleration tubes, movable bridges, and much more. Four Person Multiplayer: Play with three other people on the same map as you race to the finish line.

Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree

The concept of Big Brain Academy is a good one. Perform a set of exercises to stimulate your brain and improve its abilities. This game first came out on the Nintendo DS, after the success of Brain Age.

The way you do the exercises is with a set of colorful mini-games. The game groups its 15 mini-games into 3 games in each of 5 categories: Analyze, Compute, Memorize, Identify and Visualize. The faster you complete each mini game, and the more answers you get right, the higher your score.

By yourself, you can do two events: Test or Practice. In Test, you perform a series of the mini-games for about a minute in each category. Your score in each category is added up, and the Professor presents an overall score. You get a grade, from C– to A++ based on your score. In addition, based on which categories you did well, you get a “profession”.

In Practice, you choose a mini-game category and perform that category for a minute. You can get awarded medals — bronze, silver, gold or platinum, based on how well you did. Your results in solo practice are saved in your “Student Record” which you can send to others via Connect24 or view in the game’s Office.

For the Wii, the biggest change is how Nintendo revamped the game to allow more multiplayer options. There are 3 multiplayer modes—Mind Sprint, Mental Marathon and Brain Quiz.

Mind Sprint is the most competitive — choose a difficulty level and race against someone else to complete the mini-games first (a mistake means you do the game over).

Mental Marathon is a cooperative game. One player starts, then performs a fixed number of mini-games. Then, the player hands off to a different player, who continues. When a player makes a mistake, the game is over.

Finally, Brain Quiz is competitive but has a game show feel. Players pick one of 15 panels. Each panel has a random mini-game category and difficulty. The highest overall score wins. In this mode there is an extra mini-game that appears sometimes where you listen to orders and must select what the person ordered.

The biggest downside to the game is that there are only 15 mini-games. After playing this for a few weeks, the game can feel repetitive.

It’s a lot of fun for family and friends, and it definitely helps you improve your brain but it doesn’t have huge replay value because of the small number of mini-games. If there were 30 mini-games, this would have much more replay value.

Mercury Meltdown: Revolution

Mercury Meltdown: Revolution is one of those games in which you sit down thinking, “I’m going to play for fifteen minutes”, and then two hours later you are still playing and thinking i just need to beat one more level it will only take thirty seconds more.

It reminds me of some of the old school puzzles games that have a simple concept but are lots of fun (IE Tetris, Dr. Mario Chu Chu Rocket). It is an easy to learn, hard to master kind of game with great replay value the only down side is that none of the party games are as good as the main game.