When did Wii Play come out?

Wii Play was released on 2 December 2006 for Wii.

Wii Play (2006) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Wii Play

Wii Play collects nine quick and addictive games that are easy to pick up and play and hard to put away. Thanks to the intuitive controls of the Wii Remote, even the most inexperienced gamers will have no…

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What Wii Play is

Wii Play is an arcade game developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.2 and released in 2006. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Wii Play is a 2006 party video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It was released as a launch game for the console in Japan, Europe, and Australia in December 2006, and was released in North America in February 2007. The game features nine minigames, including a Duck Hunt-esque shooting range, a fishing game, and a billiards game, each of which are designed to showcase the features of the Wii Remote controller.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Wii Play holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 64, across 104 votes.

What it launched against

Wii Play launched on 2 December 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas.

Cheats and codes

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