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Wii Sports Resort is a new collection of fun sports games that anyone can pick up and play.• This sequel to the popular Wii Sports™ makes use of the Wii MotionPlus accessory, which gives players the most responsive and realistic experience possible. The Wii MotionPlus accessory, which is included with Wii Sports Resort, plugs into the base of the Wii Remote™ controller and, combined with the accelerometer and sensor bar, provides an experience that gives players an even greater sense of immersion.

 

• Just as with Wii Sports, people will love competing against friends and family. As the competition heats up, Wii Sports Resort is as much fun to watch as it is to play. First-time players will find it easy to pick up a Wii Remote and jump into the action.

David Dickinson, eat your heart out. We’ve all heard about rare paintings, jewellery or ancient artefacts turning up at the local church jumble sale, but what about silicon-based entertainment?

Fact is, those old games your mum keeps telling you to chuck out could be worth a small fortune, and because Nintendo’s been in the business since the year dot, it’s your NES, SNES and import games that are most likely to be worth eBay gold.

We could’ve filled the entire list with antique Game & Watch titles alone (they’re manna from heaven for collectors), but for the sake of balance here’s a list of some of the most valuable games across Nintendo’s entire portfolio.

So before you throw out any ‘junk’ boxes from the loft, best check they don’t contain any of these 25 rare classics.
Harvest Moon (SNES, US) - £60The SNES version of Harvest Moon is still considered the best among fans of the whimsy-heavy farming/courting sim. It doesn’t come up very often on eBay, and when it does you can expect to pay at least £60 for a good boxed copy. The N64 version was released soon after, accounting for the SNES game’s initial lack of popularity.

 

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Playing with your head: some of Nintendo’s more imaginative fans have speculated that the next console will translate brain activity into movement.

Fans around the world are salivating over how far the concept of motion-sensitive accessories might go: a full body suit that would capture a player’s every movement is one suggestion, as is the possibility that Nintendo would dispense with the television as its chief means of displaying games and favour projecting everything on to the inside of a mask. There is even talk of a mind-controlled console that could take the form of a claw-like unit strapped to the head, which would translate brain activity into movement.

And amid the adulation, some gamers, too, are wondering whether the Wii has reached its limits. Its graphics are perfectly good, but the machine’s lack of computing horse-power is evident when its games are compared with those on the Playstation 3 or Xbox 360.