Bush Mackel

File this under a little bit of alright : Sega’s hit game Samba De Amigo is coming to the Wii!

Now I’m sure that all of you mugs knew about this a while ago, but for your boy this is news. And you know what Charles Manson said on Family Guy - “If I haven’t seen it, it’s new to me!”

If you used to follow this site when it was approaching “good”, you know that I love rhythm games like Space Channel 5, Frequency, Rock Band and the classic Parappa the Rapper.

Samba De Amigo was always in my mix of great games but I felt that when it was on Dreamcast it kinda flew under the proverbial radar for most gamers.

Will it Be the Same on the Wii?
One of the best things about Samba De Amigo was the maraca peripheral and as far as I know that won’t be making an appearance on the Wii. And that sucks. Now I’m not saying that Destructoid isn’t going to post that someone made his own maracas with a Wiimote holder ’cause who are we kidding? - That’s just a matter of time. But the fact that we can get a crappy wheel for Mario Kart and lightsabers for Star Wars leads me to believe that my favourite monkey just isn’t getting any love.

But on that note - Because of current music game hits LIKE Rock Band and Guitar Hero, I don’t know that something suitable could be made and packaged and still be sold at the price of a current Wii game. I think given today’s marketplace, the whole maraca idea where once very creative and innovative now would be viewed as stale, flat and a poor man’s ripoff of something cool like a guitar controller.

Will it Be Good?
I think for the Wii and it’s target audience, I think there’s room for it to be a hit amongst the rest of the system’s party games. Though I don’t think it would quite work on PS3 or 360 because I just don’t think an older audience would dig it. And on a final and very SIDE note, Samba De Amigo MUST pump the maraca sound effect through the Wiimote’s speaker to capture some of the classic goodness. If they do that, we’ll all be happy. Notice : I didn’t touch on anything online because I can’t do another Wii Friend code. Sorry NOA.

P.S. I wrote a post today. Hooray!