I just wanted to take a moment to talk about Wii Tanks.

I was reminded about this game via a link from the famous Shawn Elliot twitter feed about Wii Play selling ridiculous amounts of copies.

First off, the numbers are alarming. Even to those in the industry, but I Wii Play is a good game! The mini-games have a great amount of appeal. Ok, I’ll give you the fishing, the matching game, the bubble-position crap and I’ll even throw in the cow-race. Those aside, and mind you many of those games get picked up by plenty of people, have you played the shooting game? Air hockey, billiards? Ok fine, those aren’t 19.2-million-sold good. What does that leave… Hmm…

Wii Tanks!!!!

Yep. It’s an AWESOME game. In fact, I think it’d sell for $10 alone on Wii-Ware just fine. There are 100 levels. If that’s not enough, add in a level generator and a way to share levels online, or perhaps a 1on1 competitive multiplayer element and you may just have another flagship Nintendo game just in its own rite. It’s easy to forget, stuffed in with all the other mini-games with its slim cardboard sleeve CD-case, but it’s worth hours of entertainment just for the co-op Wii Tanks experience.

Notice that article references three major games that are all sequels… or quadrals? [MGS4, GoW2, Halo3]. Perhaps Nintendo has done something different and is being rewarded in a big way.