Wii Play: Motion Message Board

During an Iwata Asks interview about Wii Play: Motion, Prope's Yuji Naka offered details about a Wii game that he once worked on, but eventually put away.

"When Nintendo announced the Wii MotionPlus accessory in the spring two years ago, I suggested to Nintendo a project called Haunted Tower. You defeated monsters outside the screen, so the living room was the scene of the action." This game was never finished, but when Wii Play: Motion came around (a project for which Nintendo recruited several small teams, including Chunsoft and Skip), Prope started working on it again as a potential minigame.

The minigame turned out to be too similar to "Spooky Search," the prototype contributed to Wii Play Motion by Naka's former Sonic the Hedgehog collaborator Naoto Oshima. "But in the two weeks left for prototypes," Naka said, "we made 'Trigger Twist,'" the shooting game included in Wii Play: Motion.

A portion of an NGamer review… If you need another remote, or you haven’t yet taken the MotionPlus plunge, you could do a lot worse than pick this up, if only to find a dozen new ways to humiliate Gran at Christmas.

In 2007 Nintendo made a killing by packaging a Wii Remote together with a small mini-game collection. That title, Wii Play, is one of the best-selling video games of all time, despite being a ho-hum mini-game collection. Four years later Nintendo hopes add to its fortune with a similar package called Wii Play Motion...

Remember that contest Nintendo was holding not so long ago for Wii Play Motion? I don’t either, but one of our readers, Dusk, was lucky enough to win something, and wants to photo-brag about it a bit. Looks like it’ll be handy when playing motion games, or even just sitting still amid some of the [...]

Wii Play: Motion is due to hit Australia on June 30th, 2011. Glad to see this title getting a quick release down under!

A portion of a GamePro review… Meet the new controller pack-in mini-game compilation, same as the old controller pack-in mini-game compilation.

ARZEST CHUN SOFT GOOD-FEEL MITCHELL PROPE, Ltd. SKIP Ltd. Nanpool Inc. NdCUBE Thanks to Josh for the heads up!

A brave player buckles under the weight of the world's largest ice cream cone.

Have fun with the whole family with such captivating activities as whack-a-mole, stone-tossing, and ghost-busting.

Bustin' makes Mii feel good.

Nintendo hasn't officially detailed the MotionPlus-enhanced minigames in the Wii Play: Motion collection, but a set of screenshots posted by GoNintendo gives an impression of all the new minigames you'll own when you decide to buy another Wiimote.

There's a game in which you fly around using an umbrella in strong wind; one called "Spooky Search," which makes use of the Wiimote speaker (to locate ghosts in your room); a stone-skipping game; and a sort of "Human Tetris" scenario in which you pose a Mii to fit through Mii-shaped holes in the wall. There's also a side-scrolling minigame about guiding balloons through mazes, something diving-themed, and a spacecraft flight game.

Wii Play: Motion will begin irritating hardcore gamers with sales on June 13 in North America and June 24 in Europe.