Game Party Champions

Game Party Champions is a 2012 party game developed by Phosphor Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, released as a launch-window title exclusively for Nintendo's Wii U. Part of the long-running Game Party series of casual minigame collections, it gathers a selection of pick-up-and-play activities, such as darts, skee-ball, hoop shoot, table-tennis-style games and other arcade and party diversions, designed for quick multiplayer sessions among friends and families. The Wii U release was built to take advantage of the console's GamePad, using its touchscreen and motion features for various games and enabling asymmetric play where the GamePad holder could compete differently from those using the television and other controllers. As with the broader minigame-compilation genre, the emphasis is on simple, broadly accessible fun rather than depth or challenge. Critical reception was poor; reviewers regarded it as a shallow and uninspired collection that did little to showcase the new hardware, ranking it among the weaker launch titles of the Wii U. Game Party Champions is remembered chiefly as a typical example of the budget party-game compilations that frequently accompanied new console launches, aimed squarely at casual gatherings. It was widely regarded as one of the weakest of the Wii U's launch-window releases.