{"id":12,"date":"2010-10-10T22:29:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T06:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-12-03T01:21:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T09:21:55","slug":"wii-party-guarantees-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/2010\/10\/10\/wii-party-guarantees-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii Party Guarantees Laughter (Theme: Bridging the demographics gap)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Wii revolutionizing the gaming world, innovatively changing the very way that people choose to game, is no breaking news event for anyone who has paid even the tiniest amount of attention to the technology sector.<\/p>\n<p>The minds over at Nintendo seems to have taken this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/life\/Party+guarantees+laughter\/3651140\/story.html \"> out-of-the-ordinary gaming experience one step further by releasing the game \u2018Wii Party,\u2019<\/a> a game that plays a lot like the titles Nintendo has released in the past. What\u2019s different about this game from <em>any<\/em> of the myriad of others is that it resurrects\u00a0familiar, traditional board games into action-oriented, video game life. Previously loved games from grandpa\u2019s generation can meet with the grandchild\u2019s electronic-crazed one, a phenomenon, yes, a <em>phenomenon, <\/em>that really does not happen enough.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/files\/2010\/10\/Old-People-Wii.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35\" title=\"Old People Wii\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/files\/2010\/10\/Old-People-Wii-300x219.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/files\/2010\/10\/Old-People-Wii-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/files\/2010\/10\/Old-People-Wii.png 654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ohh yes, they can move it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Wii has been fabulously successful since its inception a few years back, and has not looked back since, breaking barriers with Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and now, Wii Party. With a Wii successor rumoured to be in its early workings, it is vital for the first Wii to go out strong with continued releases of innovative products. This keeps the Wii brand of gaming revolution and product differentiation at the forefront of consumers\u2019 minds in a crowded marketplace with, most notably, competitors Microsoft and Sony vying for space.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/files\/2010\/10\/I-LOVE-WII.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36\" title=\"I LOVE WII!!!\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/files\/2010\/10\/I-LOVE-WII-300x130.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/files\/2010\/10\/I-LOVE-WII-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/files\/2010\/10\/I-LOVE-WII.png 813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OMFG I LOVE WII!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Wii revolutionizing the gaming world, innovatively changing the very way that people choose to game, is no breaking news event for anyone who has paid even the tiniest amount of attention to the technology sector. The minds over at Nintendo seems to have taken this out-of-the-ordinary gaming experience one step further by releasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/enzowoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}