wii games

Sandlot Sluggers for Wii by Backyard Sports

June 23, 2010

My children already love baseball, but they aren’t really old enough to play “pick-up” baseball in the neighborhood yet. My husband loves teaching them how to play, so he was really excited to try out the Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers, a game by Atari for the Wii. My kids have played the game a bunch [...]

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Your Shape Review

March 4, 2010

A video review of the Your Shape game for the Wii – with both positives and negatives of the game. Disclosure: I am participating in a three-month sponsored challenge for the Your Shape game. All opinions are my own and are not influenced by the challenge.

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Birthday Party Bash for the Wii

November 11, 2009

When I first got my Wii a while ago, it was primarily for me and my husband. However, now that my kids are 5 and 3, they are slowly starting to get interested in it. While I’m not ready to give it up, I do like to occasionally find games that they will enjoy also, [...]

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Week 4: Active Life – Extreme Challenge

September 7, 2009

This week, we tried to get my son more interested in Active Life: Extreme Challenge, and successful when we found a game he was great at – the BMX Racing Challenge. The BMX Racing Challenge is played by running in place on the game pad, and my son is super-fast. He beat his sister twice, [...]

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Week 3: Active Life Extreme Challenge

August 30, 2009

This week, in the Active Life Extreme Challenge, my family played the Namco game for only half the week, as we were on vacation the rest of the week. It was the perfect activity for the beginning of this week though, because the weather outside was incredibly hot and humid so the kids didn’t really [...]

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Week 2: Active Life Extreme Challenge

August 22, 2009

When I last wrote about our experience with Active Life: Extreme Challenge, the new Wii game from Bandai Namco Games, my family had split into two teams – the girl team, with my daughter and me, and the boy team with my son and my husband. The “boy team” was in the lead, but I [...]

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Week 1: Active Life: Extreme Challenge

August 16, 2009

Last week, I received the Active Life: Extreme Challenge game from Bandai Namco games to experience and write about. Bandai Namco previously released Active Life: Outdoor Challenge – a game I hadn’t played, but had definitely heard of. Have you ever set up a fun looking video game with eager kids, aged 3 & 4 [...]

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