Those who played it were able to improve their skills at the real game without having to spend time on the green, according to Mental Floss.
#WII SPORTS RESORT BOWLING PERFECT GAME SIMULATOR#
Perhaps more than any other sport offered on the console, golf was much more like a simulator than a game. As soon as the game came out, journalists began understanding the real-world implications of a sport like golf, which is ordinarily very time-consuming to play and takes up a ton of resources. There were other benefits to the game that I didn’t much care about as a child, but many an article has been written about the golf portions of the “Wii Sports” franchise. Nine-year-old me (and my 40-year-old mother) didn’t know anything about Mario, but I understood tennis! And playing Wii made both of those skills better.
What was also new about this game was the clear emphasis on making it accessible for those, like me, with no prior gaming knowledge.
I fondly remember battling my brother in games like sword fight and baseball. The Wii console was one of the first ever marketed towards families instead of solely young people, and this emphasis on family playing made collaboration a key part of the Wii universe. But there are aspects of the games which I truly think revolutionized gaming. What remains with me largely of the “Wii Sports” franchise remains because of nostalgia. That’s the thing about these games-there were so many of them! Being able to have a multi-varied experience and better acquaint myself with the rules of actual sports was a great tool for me as a child. You could pump your arms up and down as though they were your legs pedaling a bike in the cycling course of “Wii Sports Resort.” You could even position your screen such that you got a perfect strike in bowling every time, which was great for me as the worst bowler in the world. Everything about the game promoted realism except the actual game: You could feel the haptics and sounds of hitting a ball with your Wii remote tennis racket, for instance. The “Wii Sports” franchise emphasized a new concept of gaming with revolutionary motion-sensing technology, which was just beginning to reach commercial use at the time. To be fair, the experience “Wii Sports” games afford isn’t exactly sports in the traditional sense, and Nintendo wasn’t trying to make it that way. Looking back on it, I truly think that the genius of “Wii Sports” and “Wii Sports Resort” was in how they framed these games-and the concept of gaming in general. Still, from the ages of nine to 11, there was one franchise that took over my mind, body and soul: Nintendo’s “Wii Sports.” There was something so immediately accessible about it, even to someone like me who had absolutely zero gaming experience-and a little less than zero sports experience, at that. I will be the first to admit that there are two categories of people I, in no world, fall into: gamers and athletes.
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