I tend to mostly cover more serious topics on my blog, but occasionally you have to take a break and have some fun too. Which brings us back to the topic of video games.
My wife and I picked up New Super Mario Bros Wii the week it was released and have been playing it off and on since then. It’s a great update on the 2D side-scrolling classic. The simple controls make it easy to pick up and play for 10 minutes here or there, but there are plenty of challenges sprinkled throughout as well. It’s really a perfect game for someone like me who falls into the hybrid category of former-hardcore-gamer / semi-casual-gamer. Oh, and the four-player cooperative mode is a blast. I had my cousins’ kids playing it over Thanksgiving week and had a blast just watching them go nuts.
Anyway, if you’d like to hear more about the game, you can listen in to last week’s GameOn podcast that I co-hosted with Dispatch gaming guru Shawn Sines. Tune in HERE.
If you’re thinking about picking this game up for the holidays, you should probably get a move on. It’s probably going to be somewhat difficult to find this season.
OMG I want to go buy a Wii just so I can get this game. We already have the exbox hanging out in our living room, but the only games I know how to play on that are the guitar hero/rock band types. I’m much more comfortable on my old skool NES playing Super Mario Bros the first. Which, to this day, and I’m 30… I still have not beat. Yes. Not so much a gamer, this girl… but i like playing!
Andy LOVES this game!
He plays it non stop!!
Kat – Not sure if it’s worth the purchase of a Wii just for this one game, but there are a couple of other good titles that you could pick up on the cheap and get a lot of fun out of (Mario Kart for example).
Mario Kart is awesome. Just awesome.