Badminton: it's like tennis, except the racquet is smaller and the ball doesn't work. What is the deal with badminton? Who decided that a racquetball would be better with a tail?
Horseshoes is an equally bizarre game. At some point in history, someone saw a pile of metal things made to nailed to horses' hooves and thought "Hey, I bet it would be fun to throw those at a pole!" Now, specialized horseshoes are made specifically for being thrown at a pole.
Summer Sports includes both of these freaky pastimes. A video of the horseshoes game in action follows.
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4-06-2008 @ 3:18PM
sn1per said...
Badminton is an awesome game. Don't badmouth it.
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4-06-2008 @ 11:39PM
Shmil (Brawl Code 2621-2310-1994) said...
heheh shuttlecock
4-06-2008 @ 3:52PM
vidGuy said...
Apparently you haven't played competitive badminton. You can get that shuttlecock whipping around pretty fast and in a regulation size court a single player gets a good workout chasing it down. I'd know, I was in a night league a year back and went 19-6. Good times.
Horseshoes is another matter. It originated as quoits, which even the Greeks and Romans played. Players in the American west stopped bending the shoes into rings and the modern game was born. See, I knew that History of Sports class wasn't a complete waste of time.
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4-06-2008 @ 4:22PM
Ghen said...
you said cock.
4-07-2008 @ 1:23AM
GatorSax2010 said...
Ahh, quoits, the forgotten predecessor to horseshoes. I had never heard of it until I moved to New Jersey, and now I'm one of maybe four people in Florida who knows what it is.
4-06-2008 @ 4:22PM
Ghen said...
I desperately need a rusty nail right now. the larger the better. It only needs to be just rusty enough to cause damage, I don't want it to fall apart as I try to shove it in my skull.
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4-06-2008 @ 9:04PM
ALH said...
do they really think changing the name of the game and the shape of the ball will make people think that summer sports: badminton is anything but a poor rip of wiisports:tennis?
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4-06-2008 @ 9:26PM
David Kearns said...
This is the deal with badminton: http://tinyurl.com/6qu4dh
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4-06-2008 @ 10:58PM
Peter S said...
Actually, the pacing of this looked like something that we might enjoy. Of course, that does depend on how expensive it is. The only thing that struck me as a little odd was lawn darts. Didn't they stop selling those in the US because it was too easy to impale someone's foot (or worse) by hurling one of those the wrong way?
I kind of like the mini-golf idea - more my speed than regular golf. As for the others - I'll just have to see.
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4-07-2008 @ 9:42AM
Daniel said...
Badminton is awesome, one of my favorite games ever! Deca Sports looks great but another wii game with badminton? Count me in!
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4-07-2008 @ 9:53AM
Jeremy said...
I'd rather mow my lawn than play this game. I think I'll just get off my sofa and go outside if I want to play a summer game. I mean really who is going to spend the summer indoors playing games that can easily be played in their backyard. Don't get me wrong I love gaming as much as the next fanboy but you could buy multiple outdoor games for the price of a new Wii game.
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4-07-2008 @ 11:23AM
SoshiKitai said...
With the price of a new Wiigame, you can toss Lawn Darts at birds and be praised, rather than arrested. :D
... I'll probably just wait for Deca Sports though. Badminton is great and all, but this game just has an "iffy" feel to it.
...and is there such a thing as a "goodminton"?
4-07-2008 @ 10:02AM
teddy_kgb75 said...
this version looks worse than the deca sports version.
the characters look like they barely move.
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