holding a wiimote and nunchuck and standing in the middle of your living room is literally the most enjoyable experience of all time disregarding even playing the game. The rubber protector thing for the wiimote alone was like a toy in itself. All of these games take place in perfectly idyllic isolated worlds populated by spectators that don't care about anything outside of the game you're playing, the UI feels like an ad for a new community college or smth... I don't know whether it's the fact that I was a child when this was released or if this actually is the perfect distillation of the innocence of childhood in game form. Feels like a demo for real life

It makes me feel so old to finally get to say this but this is one of those games where you really “had to be there” - never have I seen a video game so able to connect different generations of family, with everyone /actually/ enjoying the game play. Wii Sports confirmed making video games a household name. It wasn’t the start, but it definitely was a solid nail in securing that video games, regularly seen as just an activity for boys and young men in the Western world, becoming something that a whole family could participate in together. Even my own very traditional abuelita joining in and waiting her turn to use the system so she could bowl.

It goes without saying that the physical gameplay of “actually” playing tennis and “actually” bowling was groundbreaking for the time and had everyone interested. We didn’t care that it was “just” bowling or “just” baseball. We didn’t care that games that were just playing a sport have been released since the Atari. It was the mechanics, it was the true visual view of answering “what will the future of gaming look like?”, and most importantly it was the way it brought all of us together.

As a bundle compilation of how the Wii remote could be used, this does a great job. Everyone knows how these sports work in real life, and translating that into a game like remote really helped introduce people to the gaming like control scape, and really allowed for lots of people to experience games; even if alot of said games where not particularly "main stream." Beyond such however, Wii Sports is just really well put together, climbing the ranks to fight harder opponents, endlessly playing against freinds, and the many practice games make the game feel very complete, especially considering its bundle status. If anything, I would have liked more golf maps, but given how distributed all quality of all the games turned out to be, I can overlook it.