#Wii play tanks mission 200 series#

These missions never vary: you’ll learn to never stop moving against the twin green tanks of Mission 5, aspire to go so far as to hear the newly layered music of Mission 12, dread the bouncing hellfire of Mission 17… Faced with these unchanging levels one starts to feel like an arcade-urchin, mastering the ins and outs of each successive level in order to reach the end (there is an end.

Things start to get hairy around Mission 5. To this Nintendo added a toy block aesthetic, ricocheting missiles, Wii Remote controls, and color-coded enemies–each with a different MO. Or hoping they get too close to a land mine. You roll around at low speeds, shooting AI tanks before they shoot you.

#Wii play tanks mission 200 series#

Tanks! is essentially based on a series of Atari games by the same name (minus the “s” and the exclamation point). Here’s what makes it a Wii experience worth revisiting. You had to unlock each mini-game sequentially, you see, with passable success in one giving you the keys to the next.

Yet Nintendo EAD (the developers behind Wii Play) knew to save the best for last. Even its Fishing mini-game was arguably a bigger hoot than some retail games dedicated to the pastime. And it was worth it: Wii Play‘s mini-games have more to offer than Wii Sports‘, including a welcome throwback to Duck Hunt along with a few racket sport games and tests of perception. The nine-game collection was an easy sell (and the fourth most purchased game of the console, in fact) seeing as it usually came bundled with an extra Wii Remote. It’s only a mini-game, after all, included in the certainly-not-forgotten Wii Play. It might at first seem an odd choice to include Tanks! in Nintendojo’s list of Wii’s Forgotten Gems.