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Carnival Games for the Wii aims to bring the lighthearted fun of a carnival midway into your living room. It features a collection of classic carnival games like ring toss, balloon darts, and the ever-frustrating milk bottle knock-down. While the motion controls can be a bit finicky at times, the game offers straightforward amusement and easy multiplayer sessions for families or casual groups. However, the lack of depth and limited variety of games means it's unlikely to hold your attention for very long.

Mini Golf game was better IMO

if u dont fw carnival games dont talk to me

Nostalgic, but ultimately a ho-hum minigame collection.

Waste of money. Got this for Christmas one year. Probably was $5


This and a bag of candy coal. My Christmas gift of 2008. Cheers

I have so much nostalgia of walking into Best Buy and seeing this game take up at least five separate spots on the rack. I've never played it, and I don't intend to, but this was incredibly comforting in my early adolescence, and I am appreciative of it's existence.

Played this once at recess in elementary after saving enough points to get 15 minutes of WII time worst decision ever

Every week on friday my mom would take me to gamestop and let me get a game. Well, when she was laid off work we couldn't go on fridays anymore. Being a spoiled kid, I played this game for maybe 6 hours straight everyday for four or five days to guilt my mom into buying Mario Party 7. It worked, because this game was so awful, she actually felt bad for me and my siblings. Granted, we loudly complained about how boring and sucky it was at least 20x an hour.

Thanks Carnival Games for sucking so bad my mom got us a different game.

Basically less-fun Mario Party. Not bad at all, just mediocre.

We ALL had a horrible shovelware game we were duped into asking for as a kid, don't fucking lie to me.

The slow creeping sense of dread as you realize that there is a difference between good games and bad games. The disappointment as you're stuck with the latter until you work up enough goodwill to ask for an actual good game, so you have to grit your teeth and settle for a minigame collection where you win virtual prizes that do nothing but play an animation.

These guys were eating so good that they managed to finance 2 sequels, in hopes of conning even more dumb kids out of a good video game.

Played as a kid.

This game was fine? It gets way too much hate.

Essentially a collection of mini-games on the DS connected through an overworld. You'd earn tickets to unlock new games in the carnival.

I recall expecting this game to be absolute trash, but going in it was just ok.

Not groundbreaking, but a fun little time waster on the DS.

I rented this from blockbuster once. It was fun for 5 minutes.

man fuck this game, it's as frustrating as a real carnival but with motion controls and no pretzels or good vibes.

nostalgia aside, this game is awful LOL

as per usual the 3ds wild west version is hard to find anywhere on any website to note it down so just pretend that this is 3d wild west carnival games so I can say that it sure was a game

I got very frustrated with some of these because they weren't reading my movements.

THIS GAME IS SOME ASS WHAT THE HELLLLLLLLLLL

Decent collection of minigames, not as good as Wii Sports or Wii Play


really good game for what it was.

I let a friend borrow this game when we were nine and he never gave it back. The game wasn't that good, but I kind of want it back for nostalgic reasons.
It's been 14 years, Krish. Give me my game back. I don't care that you moved to Texas. The game is somewhere and I expect you to find it.

For some reason this game looked really appealing to me early in owning a Wii, and it's a title that a whole lot of us played and suffered for it. Maybe it's that appealing box art that caught our attention, but like any low-rent shady carnival, this title will leave you feeling ripped off by its emptiness.

Carnival Games features a fairly extensive assortment of mini-games but most of them control pretty terribly. The game looks absolutely terrible- it would have been super rough looking at the start of the Gamecube era.

Each game will leave you either frustrated with the controls or just generally unimpressed. When it's time to collect your prizes they are extremely lame items with no interactivity or dumb cosmetics for your hideous avatar. Generally avoid this game if you can- shovelware that somehow passed itself off as a legimitate enough Wii title to sell really well. Yuck.