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Hasbro Family Game Night Invades the Wii
Posted by Brian Crecente at 8:00 AM on June 24, 2008
Electronic Arts' casual label showed off their upcoming collection of virtual Hasbro games at the gathering in LA last week.
Hasbro Family Game Night will include Wii-friendly versions of Connect Five, Sorry, Boggle, Yahtzee, Battleship and Sorry Sliders.
The games are all played on a table in the Hasbro Family Game Night living room, which can be decorated with unlockable themes and items.
I had a chance to check out two of the games during the presentation.
In Connect Five you use your Remote to drop red or black checkers into plastic columns as you try to line-up five of the checkers before the other player does. While you can play with standard rules, the developers also came up with a twist that gives random checkers special power ups, like the ability to lock the other player from dropping checker in a column, or blowing up surrounding pieces.
Sorry Sliders, a new board game soon to be released in toy stores by Hasbro, players swing the remote to slide small Sorry pieces down the board. The object is to try and get the piece to stop as close to the centre of the board as possible. Each player takes turns, trying to both slide their pieces into position and knock their opponents pieces away. Each round ends with players using the scored points to move their pieces to home.
I'm not sure if I can see a family gathering around a television to play classic board games, but Hasbro Family Game Night certainly has some potential and, at least initially, seems fun.
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drweazel
Posted 8:55 AM 24/6/08
What the hell is Connect Five?? That isn't the game I grew up with. :(
drweazel
DigitalHero
Posted 8:48 AM 24/6/08
@GenGam:
Good bye GenGam. Nice knowing you.
DigitalHero
kumuasata
Posted 8:46 AM 24/6/08
Blah Connect 55 is so old school as of 3 minutes ago.
See me at Connect 6. Turbogfx Graphics and NES - Like controls. Bitches.
kumuasata
shemmy
Posted 8:42 AM 24/6/08
@Makoto:
it needs to be connect 5 as its in HD!! :)
shemmy
Makoto
Posted 8:38 AM 24/6/08
Connect... 5? What's wrong with Connect 4? That was much cooler, Connect 5 just seems difficult.
Makoto
dry-roasted-peanuts
Posted 8:34 AM 24/6/08
@Grimmjow Jeagerjaques: Mom?
dry-roasted-peanuts
Green-clad Gamer Dude
Posted 8:23 AM 24/6/08
Only noobs play Connect Four guys. The real pros all play Connect Five.
Green-clad Gamer Dude
Jebusman
Posted 8:20 AM 24/6/08
@KM91: "You don't don't have one"
So..... he has a soul.
Jebusman
Gregumm
Posted 8:20 AM 24/6/08
When I first read the Connect Five, I was confused. And then it said it again. And I was angry. What in the hell was wrong with Connect Four? It's like razors. Two blades, three, four, then five. It doesn't really matter, just stop messing with them! Now, I'm glad to find out it's not real, because if anyone was funking with my childhood memories, I'd have to beat Hasbros into submission.
Gregumm
Jebusman
Posted 8:19 AM 24/6/08
I just want to know why it's Connect Five instead of Connect Four? Was it not hardcore enough? Do we really need that extra checker to make the game enjoyable?
10 bucks says in 10 years we have Connect Over 9000.
Jebusman
Kyattsuai
Posted 8:19 AM 24/6/08
Anyone else curious about how the f Battleship is going to work? DS connectivity is the only way I you could keep the other person from seeing your ships.
That is, unless they re-invent it as some kind of nautical RTS with peg-missiles.
Kyattsuai
my spoon is too big
Posted 8:19 AM 24/6/08
@GenGam: <---Banhammer here please...
my spoon is too big
KM91
Posted 8:18 AM 24/6/08
@GenGam: May Crecente have mercy on your soul. Oh wait, you don't don't have one.
KM91
Katorok
Posted 8:15 AM 24/6/08
@GenGam: May he have mercy on your soul =(...
Katorok
pandafresh
Posted 8:11 AM 24/6/08
as someone who doesn't enjoy party games or first party nintendo games (they're good! i just dont like them, but they are good! im not saying theyre bad!) i realized there isn't much for me to play on the wii. kinda a shame ='( good thing i got a workin pc and a ps3.
pandafresh
mind in rewind
Posted 8:08 AM 24/6/08
Connect Five? Whoa, when did Connect Four go all next-gen on us?
mind in rewind
Aethyr
Posted 8:06 AM 24/6/08
@GenGam: Oh.
Aethyr
InsidiousTuna
Posted 8:06 AM 24/6/08
What? Crecente? I thought you were on vacation. If you're posting, what's Stephen doing here? And why did we let in that "first bitches" commenter from 1UP?
InsidiousTuna
Snuffbox
Posted 8:06 AM 24/6/08
Connect Five?
Aaron Heilman and Matt Wise, that photoshop is from a Mets forum ;)
Snuffbox
phorty40
Posted 8:06 AM 24/6/08
you mean CONNECT FOUR? right?
phorty40
Aethyr
Posted 8:06 AM 24/6/08
Just when I thought Wii shovelware couldn't get more shovelwarey.
Aethyr
nypad5
Posted 8:05 AM 24/6/08
Mr.Potato head?! Oh man so bought.
nypad5
Grimmjow Jeagerjaques
Posted 8:04 AM 24/6/08
@GenGam: and your last.
Grimmjow Jeagerjaques
Grimmjow Jeagerjaques
Posted 8:04 AM 24/6/08
EA sucks, and Board games are garbage. what's next, Monopoly? that said. Crecente do you use Garnier for your hair?
Grimmjow Jeagerjaques
GenGam
Posted 8:01 AM 24/6/08
first bitches
GenGam
bigman88zz
Posted 9:21 AM 24/6/08
online play please? id play battleship online. sure the ds has it in club house games, but i could use it on the wii.
bigman88zz
Cloral
Posted 9:18 AM 24/6/08
Connect 5 is a completely different game:
[en.wikipedia.org]
Cloral
Hyperfludd
Posted 9:14 AM 24/6/08
Connect 5?
Is the world ending?
Hyperfludd
Crawl to China
Posted 8:57 AM 24/6/08
Wow I feel so old. Whatever happened to Connect One?
[www.eatliver.com]
Crawl to China
mferrari
Posted 10:48 AM 24/6/08
Isn't it connect 4?
mferrari
TuxBobble
Posted 11:18 AM 24/6/08
@Snuffbox: I was just about to say: "Is anyone else a Mets fan here, and do you think that looks EXACTLY like Aaron Heilman?"
Good call Snuff, haha...
TuxBobble
kidnicky
Posted 11:09 AM 24/6/08
@Grimmjow Jeagerjaques:
Board games are garbage? So you've never played a board game you like? That's asinine. Hopefully they can make some board game FPS's to soothe your savage ADD.
This game's going to rule. Connect Four (five?) with powerups? I'm getting it first day. No that isn't a joke.
kidnicky
rbleader
Posted 11:06 AM 24/6/08
@GenGam: So long... and thanks for all the fish.
Anyway, connect FIVE? But nobody will win!
rbleader
judacris
Posted 11:55 AM 24/6/08
To reiterate what everyone has mentioned...
Isn't it Connect Four? Say right here on the box.
Has connecting four pieces become too boring for you kids?
judacris
tim333
Posted 12:27 PM 24/6/08
A "Wii-friendly version of Yahtzee"? Sounds like a paradox if you ask me.
tim333
Paul Soth
Posted 2:09 PM 24/6/08
@tim333: What? He doesn't complain as much?
Paul Soth
Axel
Posted 3:58 AM 25/6/08
LOL! it is connect four, just like the one included in the DS version. That image is photoshop used in some forum. I guess Crecente never played the board game and believed it was the real thing.
Axel