technic'ly you can play it with your arms in your lap, but to quote gabe adn tycho "it makes you a fucking toolbox".

- but allways wear the wrist strap kids, as the video posted on here earlier will attest.

Indeed, you can play Wii Sports (and any Wii game for that matter) with the most subtle of movements, sitting down. No arm movement necessary.

Somehow I can see someone in the future saying:
"Their equipment is incredibly outdated. They're even still using a Wii!"

My cousin uses his whole body when playing 360. Its not needed but he still does it.

OMG, Companion Cube Wii.
We want...

@hanzonaut:
You can also play Wii Fit while sitting down and eating a Big Mac. It doesn't mean you should play it like that, now does it?

SO the Wii is the next Companion Cube?

@Andune: That was my first thought too. Wasn't expecting the article to be what it was.

@shiwasu:
Exactly, which sort of goes against what the choice quote from the article is saying, right?

@hanzonaut: Yeah it's true ive bowled a perfect game sitting down and standing on my head. it does not require that much movement but people get way into it. and that's how tv's get broken as we all seen in various youtube clips.

@MURDERFACE: You have to admit though, it can be more fun to actually get up and "bowl" rather than sit down and flick your wrist.

@hanzonaut: but that makes you a toolbox.

are you a toolbox?

D:

@Ryadic: Even though i suck at real bowling i still go out with friends and take a few hour to play at the local alley but every Halloween i get with a small group of people and we all dress as people from The Big Lebowski and play a few games even though iam always Walter. LOL

I've actually really tried to play Wii Sports using these so-called "minimal" movements. Sure you can hit the ball across the court, but the finer elements like spin and lift are pretty much impossible without swinging. Though "Jedi Tennis", wherein you have 2 players in a 4 player game going head-to-head each at front-court, back and fourth hits come so quickly that you need the speed of quick (and small) wrist movements. Jedi Tennis cannot be easily won without the toolbox approach.

Boxing? Nope, you still have to angle your wrists and left-right-left to get an kind of punch consistency.

Baseball? Yes, I can play this lying down. Timing is hard, but you can score a homer with luck and some skill.

Bowling? Hmm, a tough one, as I've seen the robot video of the perfect game. It's possible, but probably harder to play this one like a toolbox. The guy on Pure Pwnage seems to have the method down.

Golf? Definitely. This one might actually be easiest of all. Putting especially.

jeez, the stories keep coming... and they warm my heart every time. :)

@el_gordo: actually, i find it near impossible to play bowling while sitting down. can't seem to swing the wiimote back far enough when i'm seated.

@hanzonaut:
Yes, I guess the 'requires' part (well, most of the quote) was misleading.

@MURDERFACE: OVER THE LINE DONNY!

@hanzonaut: Yes, but does cheating with the arm movements cure comas?

@MURDERFACE: I wasn't saying get up and bowl as in go bowl for real, though that is always fun. I meant get up in your living room in front of your TV and act like you're really throwing a ball (just remember to hold onto the Wiimote). And I am decent at bowling and would love to do it more often, just it can get pricey and my disposable income is devoted to games. Video and tabletop

@underground_slacker: DONNY YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR FUCKING ELEMENT. - Love that movie. :)

LOL yep good times.

"Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules? Mark it zero!"

yeah we quote that movie when we bowl it funny cause when people get freaked out about it. some people laugh cause they know what we are talking about.

@MURDERFACE: I can say with confidence that that's way better than Rocky Horror, and I haven't even Lebowski.

I work less than a block away from them. Maybe I could pretend to be disabled?

Oh poor coma girl, now the nurse is destroying yor frontal lobe...

My question is who the hell buys someone a Wii for a wedding present?

@ NEOAKIRA A gamer...lol

@Timsobuff74: Yeah totally, there goes her lobe, didn't that other article say that the Wii only gives 30% more of a workout than just playing, as well? She's gonna get sued!