Grill-Off with Ultra Hand!

I hadn't uploaded a video in a week, so I figure you deserve at least one. Before I put up Rhythm Heaven Fever, I'll put up this, which I had been meaning to do for at least a year now: Grill-Off with Ultra Hand! I wouldn't blame you if you thought this was Rhythm Heaven Fever though. This is a WiiWare title that is not available at the shop. Instead, it's available only through Club Nintendo, a program on Nintendo's official site where you receive points, called Coins, based on Nintendo games you buy (as in they have to be 1st-party, like Super Mario Galaxy 2, or 2nd-party, like Pokémon Conquest--something like Sonic Generations or Super Scribblenauts don't not count, as Nintendo didn't produce or distribute them) by entering in codes found behind the instruction manual. In general, home console games are worth 50 Coins, and handheld games are worth 30, though some 3DS games or popular games are worth more. You also get 10 points for filling out a survey one week after entering in the game's code. Some games get bonuses if you enter in a code soon after release, like Kid Icarus Uprising. For a limited time, Grill-Off with Ultra Hand! could be redeemed through Club Nintendo for 80 Coins. During the time this came out, this was the cheapest thing in Club Nintendo by far: The next cheapest item, a set of postcards, was 350 Coins. The only other game available was a Game & Watch Collection worth 800 Coins. Essentially, if you bought a Wii game and a DS game, and they both have Club Nintendo codes, you could afford Grill-Off. Since this is just a bonus promotional game, there isn't much to it. The goal is as simple as it looks: Score as many points as you can by grabbing food from the three grills in the back, then put them onto the plates in the front. You get a bonus for grabbing a food when "Just Right," which you can tell because they'll expand for a brief moment. Grabbing a series of foods "Just Right" creates a chain combo. You fail if you drop some food onto the grass or if some food burns on the grills. You begin with only kabobs, which cook quickly, but as you go, you'll encounter steaks and whole turkeys, which cook slower. As a result, the order the foods dropping onto the grills aren't necessarily the order you will need to pick them up in. I'm not very good at this, so turkeys are as far as I go. By the way, the Ultra Hand is a real device. It was a toy created by Nintendo in 1966, nearly 50 years ago by Gunpei Yokoi, who would later invent the D-Pad, the Game Boy, Metroid, and, most unfortunate for him, the Virtual Boy, which got him laid off from Nintendo. Yokoi would work for Bandai afterwards, creating the Bandai Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color before he was killed in a car accident. (Never heard of the Wonderswan? It was a handheld system that competed against the Game Boy Advance, and to some extent, the Sega Dreamcast. It never caught on in the west, but in Japan, the Wonderswan Color lasted about as long as the GBA did, well after Yokoi's death.) The Ultra Hand is an extendable gripping device meant to get stuff from far away and bring them to you, which is exactly what it's doing in this game. It was made of plastic and was only meant to grab rubber balls it came with, so it's not as utilitarian as you might think it is.

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