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Official Nintendo mag says so.

SEGA has hidden its maracas and remained quiet over rumours that rhythm action game Samba de Amigo is heading to Wii.

Supposed confirmation of the title spilled from the pages of US (official) magazine Nintendo Power, which said we could expect the game next year.

It went on to name Gearbox Software (of Brother's in Arms fame) as the developer, and outlined plans to use the Wiimote and Nunchuk as the famous maraca peripherals.

Samba de Amigo was released for Dreamcast in Europe back in 2000. The idea was to shake your maracas at different heights or strike poses in time with the bottom-shaking music.

If you did well, the scene around your dancing monkey on-screen would fill with onlookers revelling in your beats. Fail, however, and chimp-chops would get popped in the back of a lorry and shipped of to some faraway country to test out Timotei. Maybe.

We'll let you know more when we do.

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- Release date 25/09/2008
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AcidSnake #1 4 years ago

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Seems SEGA confirmed it to 1up:

Right here

Sega of America has since confirmed to 1UP that Samba de Amigo is coming to Wii, courtesy of Gearbox Software. They promise that more information is coming soon, so stay tuned!
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Guv #2 4 years ago

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Da na dada da da da da da daa, da naa dada da dada da da daa Samba Samba de Janeiro!
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Danoxth #3 4 years ago

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Must hide this article from other half....bloody addicted to these sort of games.
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Harlequeen #4 4 years ago

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And here's me thinking that we could use the Wii for filesharing
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Rirekon #5 4 years ago

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So many innuendo's missed
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CallousB #6 4 years ago

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Not sure how this will work on the Wii...unless it works on movement and angles as opposed to height. It would be a shame not to have some form of maracas add-on available as it won't be the same with the Wiimote and nunchuk.

Maybe they could make it a dual remote game and just have a maraca rattler that slots onto the top of each Wiimote?

It would be nice if they expanded it ala Rockband and have a full 4 player band mode with the Wiimote used to similate various instruments.
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The_Inquisitor #7 4 years ago

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It wont be the same without the maracas but at least we'll have the dancing monkey back.
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Agent_Llama #8 4 years ago

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A dancing monkey should be a pre-requisite for every game.
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That_Happy_Cat #9 4 years ago

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http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=ADsh0qOJbco
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deaner #10 4 years ago

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TimeSplitters is better than Halo

FACT
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tardo #11 4 years ago

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I loved Samba on the dreamcast. Although I think they should let you use two remotes instead of a remote and a nunchuk. That way you can have sound from both of them, like the original nunchuks.
Still, like NiGHTS, this is another definite Saturn-era game that I will be buying for the Wii.
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yagisencho #12 4 years ago

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Woohoo!! They listened to my suggestion!!

(Okay, they probably were already planning it, but...woohoo anyway.)
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