I was just playing Smooth Moves multi-player with my family last night. We did Darts and Star Nose at first, because you can play them seated, with 12 pounds of turkey in your belly, but later did some Lifeline, mostly still sitting down. And yeah, awesome game.
F-Zero Gamecube WAS too hard, btw. I don't mind the game having challenges that tough, but not to unlock such important content. You have to invest a lot of time and become a freakin' wizard just to unlock all the tracks. That's simply retarded, and I bet it contributed to the game being such a sales disappointment.
Monster has only ever done racing games; most of them NASCAR games. Here's their (amazingly barebones) webpage: http://www.mgiracing.com/
And here's a list of Nintendo franchises to fuel your speculation: http://nindb.classicgaming.gamespy.com/fran.shtml
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
