4/28/2007 - WiigoBot: The Perfect Game

My favorite game on the Wii is still Wii Bowling. It's so simple, and yet it mimics the real game so well. I really feel that every minuscule angle change or velocity modulation I make with my swing makes a difference in the outcome of the bowl. I know I'll never bowl as well in real life bowling, but I believe that Wii Bowling is good practice anyway. It's all about getting that precise swinging control ingrained into your muscle memory so you can get a strike every time.

So when I saw this video on YouTube, I just had to laugh. Of course when you have a robot bowling for you, a perfect game is automatic. The problem is that it defeats the whole purpose of someone playing it as a bowling simulator! Still, I have to admire the work that must have gone into programming the robot. You'd have to get the Mii to move off-center, hold the B trigger, swing back then forward with a slight tilt to get some spin, release the B trigger, then press the A button to start the next throw. All that with Lego Mindstorms... amazing.

Past Favorite - Pretty Intense Bowling Experience

Multiple choice answer as to why I chose this video as my Daily Favorite:

A) The sheer rarity of having an all-American girl being completely fluent in Japanese.
B) The insults in Japanese to her friends after their failure in bowling.
C) The "Evolution of a Gamer" T-Shirt on "CJ".
D) "CJ" falling on his ass.
E) The evil laugh.

The answer is... all of the above. Well, mostly E), because I laugh every time at the end. But I just thought that this was one of those rare unscripted videos where everything worked. Compare this to a typical lonelygirl15 video which IS scripted and you'll see what I mean. Kudos, applemilk1988!