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    Samba de Amigo is a rhythm game originally released in 2000 that has been ported to the Nintendo Wii. Players shake Wii remotes instead of specialized maraca controllers to keep time with Latin music. The game features a sombrero-wearing monkey dancing to songs like "Livin' la Vida Loca" and is meant to embarrass rather than impress players with their skills. While the gameplay remains unchanged from the original, developers worked to replicate the original controller's shaking and position detection using Wii remotes.

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    Samba de Amigo is a rhythm game originally released in 2000 that has been ported to the Nintendo Wii. Players shake Wii remotes instead of specialized maraca controllers to keep time with Latin music. The game features a sombrero-wearing monkey dancing to songs like "Livin' la Vida Loca" and is meant to embarrass rather than impress players with their skills. While the gameplay remains unchanged from the original, developers worked to replicate the original controller's shaking and position detection using Wii remotes.

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    Samba de Amigo is a rhythm game originally released in 2000 that has been ported to the Nintendo Wii. Players shake Wii remotes instead of specialized maraca controllers to keep time with Latin music. The game features a sombrero-wearing monkey dancing to songs like "Livin' la Vida Loca" and is meant to embarrass rather than impress players with their skills. While the gameplay remains unchanged from the original, developers worked to replicate the original controller's shaking and position detection using Wii remotes.

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    Samba de Amigo

    Nintendo Wii • Sega • Release Date

    The Agenda: Yes, the sombrero wearing monkey really is shaking his ass to the beat of Ricky
    Martin’s “Livin’ la Vida Loca.” Rhythm games are all about rocker cool these days, but Samba de
    Amigo is decidedly uncool, a Latin music-tinged psychedelic freak-out designed to humiliate rather
    than ego-inflate. Originally designed for special motion sensing maracas controllers (which you shake
    in time to the music), this port of the 2000 cult classic uses Wii remotes instead. Aside from new
    tunes, don’t expect big changes. “If the maraca shaking, dancing, happy-monkey game
    ain't broke, don't fix it," says Samba developer Gearbox’s Marc Tardif.

    Skeletons in the Closet? The original controller detected both shaking and position (low, middle,
    high), a challenge to replicate with Wii remotes. “We have an elite group of ninja
    programmers on the problem,” says Tardif.

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