I have an immense amount of nostalgia for Wii Play, and it was a lot of fun taking my friend through it for the first time. Our playthrough became this extremely particular time capsule - its sights and sounds unpicking locks in my mind which have very specific childhood memories behind them. I guess this is what nostalgia feels like.

But I also think that this is just an extremely well produced and joyful bit of casual software. The games are of an extremely uneven quality (Billiards and Laser Hockey are uniquely dull) but the most polished ones are a great laugh in multiplayer.

The package was thin but it was essentially pack-in software for the Wii Remote, and through that lens there is great genius to how it explains the controller in a practical way. This is simple, intuitive fun, as the best games in the Wii series were.