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Wii + reitirement home = Wiitirement home
An entire retirement home full of elderly people passing their free time in heated Wii competitions. It may sound like a Nintendo press release, but it's actually a Chicago Tribune article about the Sedgebrook retirement home in Lincolnshire, where Wii Sports Bowling is taking the living community by storm. The game is so popular among the residents that grandparents are teaching their grandkids how to play and a 20 person tournament took place over the weekend. Sure beats watching Matlock reruns all day. Previously: Wii appeals to the elderly
Become a portable Kingpin
The only bowling games I've had fun with are Wii Bowling, Super Monkey Ball Monkey Bowling and Strip Bowling (whenever I can con desperate women into playing). I understand though that not everyone is like me and also none of those games are serious bowling titles. It's with that in mind that bowling fans can look forward to the just announced Brunswick Pro Bowling. To be published by budget game publisher Crave Entertainment, Brunswick Pro Bowling will have players work their way from amateur to professional bowler by competing in a simulated year's worth of tournaments through ten authentic recreations of actual Brunswick alleys. When not tearing up the professional league you can bowl against friends in multiplayer. Beyond ad hoc wireless multiplayer, the PSP version of Brunswick Pro Bowling will have character customization options so you can personalize your ball thrower. Whether this game is a strike or gutter ball will be determined when it hits store shelves later this year. [Via DCEmu]
Wii Sports bowling "power throws" perfected
Just a few short days after we posted our challenge for video evidence of a perfect 890 in the Wii Sports bowling "power throws" mini-game, video evidence of the feat has surfaced courtesy of Joystiq reader Koz. Not content to just show off his skills, Koz has also written out the method that led to his perfect run in scientific detail over on the WiiModWii forums. Apparently, imported Belgian beers and a "vocabulary of thousands of cuss words to scream in anger" are the keys to success.
