Wii Sports. Wii Sports (Wii スポーツ, Wī Supōtsu?)
Is a sports game developed and published by Nintendo as a launch title for the Wii video game console (and the first title for this console), and part of the Touch! Generations.[2] The game was first released in North America along with the Wii on November 19, 2006, and was released in Japan, Australia, and Europe the following month. It was included as a pack-in game with the Wii console in all territories except Japan,[3] making it the first game included with the launch of a Nintendo system since Mario's Tennis for the Virtual Boy in 1995. Wii Sports is now available on its own as part of the Nintendo Selects collection of games and is no longer a pack-in game for the Wii. The game is a collection of five sports simulations, designed to demonstrate the motion-sensing capabilities of the Wii Remote to new players.
Overall, Wii Sports has been well received by critics and received awards from the gaming press and entertainment community. Sales[edit] Tennis. Tennis is a sport people usually play individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
Each player uses a racquet that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a good return. History Predecessors Jeu de paume in the 17th century Historians believe that the game's ancient origin lay in 12th century northern France, where a ball was struck with the palm of the hand.[3] Louis X of France was a keen player of jeu de paume (“game of the palm”), which evolved into real tennis, and became notable as the first person to construct indoor tennis courts in the modern style. It wasn't until the 16th century that racquets came into use, and the game began to be called "tennis", from the Old French term tenez, which can be translated as "hold! " Baseball. Bowling. A ten-pin bowler releases the ball.
Playing bowls at West End Bowling Club, UK. Bowling refers to a series of sports or leisure activities in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball towards a target. Golf. Golf is a precision club and ball sport in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course using the fewest number of strokes.
Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules. " It is one of the few ball games that do not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on a course, in general consisting of an arranged progression of either nine or 18 holes. Each hole on the course must contain a tee box to start from, and a putting green containing the actual hole. There are various other standardized forms of terrain in between, such as the fairway, rough, and hazards, but each hole on a course, and indeed among virtually all courses, is unique in its specific layout and arrangement. Origin[edit] Golf course[edit] Boxing. The origin of boxing may be its acceptance by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game in BCE 688.
Boxing evolved from 16th- and 18th-century prizefights, largely in Great Britain, to the forerunner of modern boxing in the mid-19th century, again initially in Great Britain and later in the United States. History[edit] Early history[edit] See also Ancient Greek boxing First depicted in ancient Egyptian relief from the 2nd millennium BC depicts both fist-fighters and spectators.[2] Both depictions show bare-fisted contests.[2] Other depictions in the 2nd millennium BC can be seen in reliefs from the Mesopotamian nations of Assyria and Babylonia, and in Hittite art from Asia Minor. Early boxing Boxing was originally nothing more than bare fist fighting between two willing and sometimes unwilling competitors.