10 Video Game Crazes You Forgot Were A Thing

10. Cheap Wii Sports Cash Ins

During the mid-2000s Nintendo managed to capture the imagination of the casual market to an unprecedented degree with the DS and Wii, and by creating a series of video games for people who didn't normally play video games.

The pinnacle of this came with the tie-in for the hugely popular home console, Wii Sports. With over 82 million copies sold, Wii Sports proved to be a massive success by keeping things simple and utilising motion controls to appeal to the widest audience possible.

In the wake of the game's success, developers realized they could target the same demographic by creating similar experiences comprised of multiple games in one. However, while Wii Sports had a level of charm in its simplicity, many of these titles were little more than soulless cash grabs that were ultimately resigned to populating the shelves of none gamers.

Several of these X-in-one games also promoted the use of useless plastic peripherals to make the Wiimote look more like a baseball bat, gun, or even kitchen utensils, a gaming crime in and of itself.