Less than a year ago, people around the world first picked up a Wii Remote and realized Nintendo was changing video games forever. Using the Wiimote's motion sensitive feature, the realistic game play of Wii Sports turned parents and grandparents into gamers and launched a new Wii-based party and made a fitness machine out of it to.

Nintendo has built on the momentum with the arrival of Wii Play, a collection of nine new games in the Wii Sports style that lets players fish, play pool or shoot targets with the motion-sensitive Wii Remote. Wii Play joins Wii Sports as the party-game centerpiece at family get-togethers and grown-up game nights. To emphasize the multiplayer nature of the game, Wii Play comes packaged with a Wii Remote.

Wii Play includes games like Fishing, which uses the Wii Remote like a fishing rod, Billiards, in which players use it as a pool cue and Shooting Range, a target practice game played in the style of the classic Duck Hunt game from the NES. Other games include Table Tennis, Charge!, Tanks! and Laser Hockey. Two games make extensive use of players' Mii caricatures. Pose Mii asks players to orient their Miis in a variety of different positions to match silhouettes, while Find Mii requires them to locate specific Miis within an ever-growing crowd.

George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications said: "Wii Play builds on the types of games and experiences people have come to love in Wii Sports. Millions of people around the world are recognizing Wii as the future of gaming. We are changing how people play games, who plays and how many play."

All the games in Wii Play are easy to learn and difficult to put down. Veterans and newcomers alike will discover fun and entertaining challenges that will have friends and family competing for hours on end. Core gamers can invite their non-gaming friends and relatives to give Wii Play a try, thereby bridging the gap between the two groups and expanding the world of video games to new audiences.