10 best drinking video games

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2. Wii Sports (Wii)

What it is:
A dead simple, cutesy iteration of some of the easiest to grasp sports of all time: Bowling, Golf, Tennis, Baseball, and Boxing.

Why it's perfect:
First, it's the Wii pack-in game, so you're almost guaranteed to have it. Second, it's cute, so the ladies will step right up. Third, the presentation and gameplay are so easy to grasp that the learning curve is practically a flat line. Fourth, you have a great assortment here: we would have picked a tennis, golf, or bowling game by itself to put on this list. The fact that they're all here together means you can switch games so quickly that your crowd of sloshy participants won't have the chance to wander off

Where does the booze go?
Down the hatch every time someone wins, loses, or derails the fun for 20 minutes by demanding to make a new Mii. You can also drink on strikes and gutter balls, on birdies or bogies, aces, or any other time a player scores or doesn't score. For lightning-fast inebriation, drink once for every pin you leave standing in bowling, every stroke in golf that doesn't go in the hole, or every time you actually hit the ball back in tennis.

Eric Bratcher
I was the founding Executive Editor/Editor in Chief here at GR, charged with making sure we published great stories every day without burning down the building or getting sued. Which isn't nearly as easy as you might imagine. I don't work for GR any longer, but I still come here - why wouldn't I? It's awesome. I'm a fairly average person who has nursed an above average love of video games since I first played Pong just over 30 years ago. I entered the games journalism world as a freelancer and have since been on staff at the magazines Next Generation and PSM before coming over to GamesRadar. Outside of gaming, I also love music (especially classic metal and hard rock), my lovely wife, my pet pig Bacon, Japanese monster movies, and my dented, now dearly departed '89 Ranger pickup truck. I pray sincerely. I cheer for the Bears, Bulls, and White Sox. And behind Tyler Nagata, I am probably the GR staffer least likely to get arrested... again.