{"id":613,"date":"2009-04-05T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-04-05T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:31:07","slug":"wii-play-the-popular-bad-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/04\/05\/wii-play-the-popular-bad-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii Play: The Popular Bad Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enthusiast site Ars Technica declares that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2009\/03\/wii-play-becomes-first-bad-game-to-sell-10-million.ars\">Wii Play becomes first bad game to sell 10 million<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wii_Play\">Wii Play<\/a> isn&#8217;t my favorite game, perhaps the Ars Technica headline and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/wii\/935589-wii-play\/index.html\">61% GameRanking average<\/a> are both misleading? I do think it contains a good deal of enjoyable minigames suitable for a lazy afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/3720\/what_gamers_want_silver_gamers.php?page=3\">Gamasutra article on Silver Gamers<\/a>, Wii Play Cow Racing is even singled out as a popular minigame.<\/p>\n<p>Is Wii Play a bad game? Or is it just a game for an audience other than game journalists?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-614\" title=\"nd10-1100-out2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nd10-1100-out2-450x508.jpg\" alt=\"nd10-1100-out2\" width=\"450\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nd10-1100-out2-450x508.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nd10-1100-out2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Image from Tiger Direct.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enthusiast site Ars Technica declares that &#8220;Wii Play becomes first bad game to sell 10 million&#8220;. While Wii Play isn&#8217;t my favorite game, perhaps the Ars Technica headline and the 61% GameRanking average are both misleading? I do think it contains a good deal of enjoyable minigames suitable for a lazy afternoon. In a Gamasutra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/04\/05\/wii-play-the-popular-bad-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wii Play: The Popular Bad Game?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}