Family Game Night is fun for the family

by Candace Savino { May 16th 2008 at 11:00AM }

Remember when your family used to put one night of the week aside to play board games, so that you'd grow closer to one another amongst bouts of innocent fun and mayhem? Yeah, neither do we. Hasbro does, though, which is why the company is bringing six of its most popular board games to the Wii, in one small package.

Called Family Game Night (not to be confused with Wii Fanboy's Game Night), this title includes the following classics:

Connect Four
Yahtzee (not the one that curses a lot)
Battleship
Boggle
Sorry!
Sorry! Sliders (who wants to tell EA and Hasbro that this doesn't count as a "sixth" game?)

We know that going digital is the wave of the future, but is anyone else slightly against the entire "board games turned video games" genre? Call us old-fashioned, but when we cheat at Battleship, we want to cheat with style -- not by looking at a TV screen.

If you think differently, though, keep an eye out for Family Game Night, which will hit European Wiis this fall.

[Via press release]

Tags: battleship, board-game, boardgames, boggle, connect-four, ea, europe, family-game-night, hasbro, sorry, sorry-sliders, yahtzee

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

memo90061 @ May 16th 2008 11:06AM

wow. this is so weird! i just dreamt that i went to target and i saw the game of life for the wii and then i blinked and it wasnt the game of life. it was sorry!!

TheCoats @ May 16th 2008 11:11AM

LOL - that picture is EPIC!!!

Tim @ May 16th 2008 11:19AM

Probably not a purchase for me as i own all of the original board games and already play them with my chillins, LOVE the pic, STATION!!!!!

mian @ May 16th 2008 11:51AM

I'm all for the conversion, if it's the right games. Those 6 aren't the right games. Battleship makes more sense on DS.

Axis and Allies, Risk, Risk 2210, with online play, I'd be cool with that.

Family-oriented stuff (like yahtzee or a dozen others) online could make game nights possible for families that are separated by state lines (like mine), but playing "pass the cell phone" would suck, so I wouldn't go for it without some VC loving.

This title is probably made of fail, but the concept has a lot going for it.

josh @ May 16th 2008 12:23PM

i like the idea, board games while fun piss me off do to the setup/clean up and space they take up. battle ship would be fun and if done right hard to cheat (i would like me some big A-bomb type explotions on my 55" screen. Also seening as how i kid would learn a video game faster the a board game im down for getting it for the kids

SoshiKitai @ May 16th 2008 3:05PM

YOU CHEAT AT BATTLESHIP?!! HOW DARE YOU?!!!

......... nah, I did too... I was a sore loser that way. :P
(I cheated in a lot of games... and knew how to... that included Chess, Checkers, Chinese Checkers, Pokemon TCG, Jenga, Pictionary, and etc...... call me a "cheater", I call myself "creative")

Me interested in that game?
Meh. I'd rather spend an hour with $100 looking for new versions of those games...
...except for Rock 'em sock 'em Robots, the new versions suck..... psh, safety my foot! Children need to experience the danger of getting their fingers jammed into things, or being cut by a loosely made toy!

...tsh, toys these days. All about safety, and no fun.