SIMON + KAYAR

After a long time I feel being gripped by a video game. I have spent 25 hours on this one and it is going strong - thanks to my wife for being so understanding of my passions. Now this game and this series is very popular among nintendo circles and it landed in shelves as early as 2006. But I had to wait till now since I could not get my hands on this game (living in india). The drought came to an end this year when a colleague of mine helped me purchase these games on his trip to US. I made sure that I collected most of the gems of Wii like Super mario galaxy, mario kart, zack and wiki, pikmin, de blob and a few more along with this, the biggest ever zelda game.

I fondly remember the days when my brother and I sat down and tried to conquer the first zelda game on NES in a day not realizing that it requires much more than that to complete the game. I will update this after I finish the game. Atleast another 25 hours to go is my guess

A video game from Spielberg should be interesting and what if it combines ideas from our childhood days of blocks and bringing them down. I liked it when I heard it the first time and now I have it at home. After Wii Sports Tennis this was the game which my wife and kid and I like equally well. Isn't that some effort. A very nice physics based game with puzzles and challenges for everyone. You aim at the blocks with your wii remote and throw the ball. That is all you need to learn to play this (like World of Goo but much more easier) Ok let me blast a few more blox...

Nintendo did have some surprises for Wii in the annual E3 expo on June 2nd 2009. The announcements of interest are

• Wii Sports Resort will ship in June (was actually announced on E3 2008)
• Wii Vitality Sensor (attachment to Wiimote that can sense your pulses)
• Wii Fit Plus (Sequel to Wii Fit - an exercise + game to keep you healthy)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (a sequel to the great SMG)
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii (3D multiplayer adventure of the classis 2D)
• Metroid: The other M (The next metroid)
• A new Zelda (not before 2010)

So it was a good E3 from Nintendo at least for me and am happy about things are going for the Wii.

I have always been a fan of quality flash games (apart from being a fan of PC games and that too apart from my regular duty of being fan of Wii games). When I first checked this one out, I was like 'May not be worth it..' and boy was I wrong. The game kept me busy for quite some time, each time someone interrupting me and killing my progress (of course at home). There is no save option unlike other games and hence it took me longer than usual to beat it. It became addictive and fun. You can play it without any annoying ads in my other site (meant to be for games in the long run).

Now there is that Gem Craft to be won... Sigh so many games so little time.

Finally, the wait is over for cricket fans of Wii, the one game machine best suited for the sport. Code masters have anounced that Wii will have cricket before end of 2009 with Xbox, PS3 and PC getting it first. That alone can make this year beautiful.

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