SEGA held a little gathering in a pub yesterday, designed to show off its upcoming Wii titles.

Obviously the game we’re most interested in is the Wii remake of Dreamcast rhythm action LEGEND Samba de Amigo, which uses the Nunchuck and Wiimote to replicate the original DC version’s maracas. If you’re too young to know what a Dreamcast and a Samba de Amigo is/was, Samba’s a kooky little music game where you shake your arms about in time to music, as if playing the maracas. It is/was also pure, distilled SEGA genius.

Here’s a look at the only level and song currently in a playable state:

Sorry about the video being at a bit on an angle, but you can’t really stand right in front of the screen when someone’s busy waving their arms about. And sorry about the background noise - people tend to stand around talking excitedly and reminiscing a lot at SEGA press events.

Incidentally, Samba worked just fine on Wii. The only slight problem people had was working out how high their arms had to be to hit the ‘middle’ maraca waving point - but that’s just your standard Wii control system learning curve problem. Wii Samba’s out this “summer” - SEGA wouldn’t be any more specific than that.

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This entry was posted on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 10:04 am by Gary Cutlack
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