Turns out our Seventh Floor Neighbours also have a Wii. They came over for a few games of four-player tennis (which is great fun), and with them they brought WarioWare: Smooth Moves. Now, that game is a riot. There are more than 200 totally silly mini games of five seconds each that have you do all kinds of manoeuvres with the Wiimote, such as holding it to your nose when controlling an elephant trunk, picking it up from the floor when answering a phone (and then the Wiimote actually talks), flapping your arms like a bird, turning it like a key, shaking it like a champagne bottle (which climaxes into removing your thumb from the IR sensor to release the cork), using it as a steering wheel, rolling it around, and even dropping it. I am still in the market for the Serious Sports Game, but Wario has put the Party Game back onto the map, a genre I have not even thought about since You Don't Know Jack.

Life at Versailles. I want candy.

7 points