The 2007 Boysie Awards
Actors get Oscars, singers get Grammys and video games get awards from Boys’ Life: THE BOYSIES. The Boysies are dedicated to the age-old proverb that video games don’t have to be gross to be cool.
CATEGORY ONE: Best Console
The best video game console doesn’t need to be the most powerful. For this category, we’re closing in on what we think matters most: which console has the best games.
Winner: Wii
(Nintendo of America)
Nintendo’s goal has been to take gaming into a new world, and Wii has been a success. Having come out a year later than Xbox 360, Wii has overtaken the Microsoft console in sales, while leaving PS3 in the dust. Wii’s lead over the competition is especially notable, however, when it comes to family-friendly games.
CATEGORY TWO: Best Portable Game System
Games for cell phones have really improved, but they still can’t compete with dedicated portable game systems like DS and PSP. Like the race for best console, this is a battle between a powerful system and an innovative, less-expensive rival designed with the family in mind.
Winner: Nintendo DS
(Nintendo of America)
DS just keeps on rolling: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Mario Party DS, Brain Age 2 and a really excellent version of Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground (rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and Older).
Nintendo’s portable boy’s screens are considerably lower resolution than the screen on PSP and the processor is weaker, yet somehow Nintendo makes the whole thing work. The truth is that it’s in the games. Too many PSP games feel like smaller versions of console games—and too many are made for adults.
CATEGORY THREE: Best Sports Game
Winner: Madden NFL 08
(Electronic Arts for GameCube, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, DS, PSP, Mac, PC)
Year in and year out, the Madden NFL series continues as the best of the best: great graphics, realistic action, a wide variety of plays, sharp controls, and enough levels of difficulty for both beginners and hardcore players.
Not all versions of Madden NFL are created equal. The Wii and DS versions are disappointing; the PS3 version had problems. When we say Madden NFL 08 is the sports game of the year, we mean Madden NFL on Xbox 360.
Runner-up: The Bigs
(2K Sports for PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP)
2K Sports has breathed a little extra life into baseball by picking up the pace of the game and adding a ton of mini games, making The Bigs a bit more entertaining than the more realistic baseball games of 2007. The Bigs isn’t bad on any platform, but it really is most fun on Xbox 360.
Runner-up: FIFA 08
(EA for PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PSP, PC)
Electronic Arts is the biggest publisher of games and the overall champ when it comes to sports, and FIFA 08 shows why. This soccer game is not easy, but it’s worth the trouble to learn it. It looks great and plays better than it looks. Just don’t expect to win any championships on your first try.
CATEGORY FOUR: Best Party Game/Collection
Winner: Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
(Ubisoft for Wii, DS; Rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and Older)
This collection of 60+ mini games delivers on action and humor. The rabbids, which look like cartoon rabbits and act like zany maniacs, are the funniest characters in gaming today. It’s worth pointing out that this game is much more satisfying on Wii than DS.
Runner-up: Mario Party DS
(Nintendo for DS)
Overall, Mario Party DS probably has slightly better games than Raving Rabbids 2, but the sense of humor in Raving Rabbids was the decision maker. What Mario Party DS brings to the party is a story mode and a puzzle mode along with a collection of mini games.
Runner-up: Namco Museum Remix
(Bandai Namco for Wii)
Namco has taken nine classic arcade games and dressed them up with new graphics and altered gameplay to create a fun collection.
Runner-up: Viva Piñata Party Animals (Microsoft for Xbox 360)
Packed with 40 mini games — some good, some great, a few a bit disappointing — Viva Piñata Party Animals is a good package overall. Many of the mini games in this collection are not all that miniature, such as the cart racing game.
CATEGORY FIVE: Best Games of the Year
It’s been a good year, but not an especially great year for games. That said, the top two games of 2007 would make the “best of” list no matter what year they came out.
Console Winner: Super Mario Galaxy
(Nintendo for Wii)
If you’re looking for a game that reminds you why you started playing video games in the first place, here it is.
In Super Mario Galaxy, the powerful plumber chases bad boy Bowser across not just one galaxy but dozens. Mario transforms into a boo (ghost), a bee and his old two-dimensional self. The graphics are beautiful, the challenges endless, the fun nonstop.
Portable Winner: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
(Nintendo for DS)
Great Wind Waker-style cel-shaded graphics and a storyline that picks up where Wind Waker left off make this the portable game of the year.
Runner-up: LEGO Star Wars: The Compete Saga
(LucasArts Entertainment for PS3, Wii, Xbox 360, DS; Rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and Older)
First of all, a word to LucasArts: Why isn’t this game on PS2, Xbox and PC?
LucasArts took all the deep gameplay goodness that made the previous two LEGO Star Wars games so great and combined them into one huge title. If you don’t already have LEGO Star Wars I or II, here’s your chance to relive all six Star Wars movies through the eyes of blocky little LEGO characters.
I am from the future!
Nintendo has the all time greatest consoles ever made. The DS has some of the best 2-D graphics ever especially in Zelda Phantom Hourglass, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Mario series, every other game for the DS.
the wii rocks!!!
How do you win a WII?
WII is the Best out of all Nintendo
yo is so right I can’t even begin to explain.
Dude don’t waste ur money on a xbox get a wii or nintendo ds or nintendo dsi:) or the best ever an iPod touch or iPhone
I realy realy want a wii!
I want a wii so bad all go crazy
I expected the wii to win because it is more family related than other gaming concles the PS1, 2, and 3 have good graphics for their time but they have more Teen games than E rated games some of them do but XBOX 360 also plays many violent games more like fighting games the maker and founder made the controller shaped for this and so I’m not suprised by the Wii winning the Boysie Award. 🙂
The old wii is just waiting to be obscelete and nintindo should begin building a new concle the Nintindo DSi should help with the problem but they need to branch out the have alot of games for the Wii and DS/DSi and that is the problem the Sony PS2 has over sixteen hundred games and then they made the PS3, Games Like Madden 08 and other Madden games are really entertaining and fun so my advive is don’t buy a wii wait and save money to buy the latest Ganing concle after the wii.
Sonic and the Black Night is the BEST it ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lego star wars2 is the best game ever. i have it.
Ocarina of Time, N64 is the best game ever. End of discussion
Lego star wars is the best game ever #1
I love the Lego star Wars the complete saga so much and i have heard it is a fabulos game.
@ obiwon
SSBB was released March 9th, 2008.
ya SMG is amazingly awesome.
THE WII IS THE BEST CONSOLE EVER! YOU REALLY GET INTO THE GAME. IT ALSO GIVES YOU AN AWESOME WORKOUT.( WII FIT )
I agree with obi-wan, Super smash bros brawl sould be one of the best games.
i have a nintendo wi and its the funnist syestem that is the coolest 🙂
I LOVE NINTENDO! Go Wii! Go DS!
I love it
I Love wii’s !!!!!!!!! and I want one verry verry baddly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mario party 8 is better than that weird rabbit game (ps) wii rocks
pspftw is wrong.
you said it
well, obi-wan, super smash bros brawl wasn’t released in 2007. It may be nominated for 2008!
Super Smash Bros. Brawl should have been the best game!
nintendo has good graphics just ppl think its terrible compared 2 ps3 and 360. i like da ds and da psp. pspftw, try a nintendo console 4 once. youll like it.
i love wiis and i realy want one badly.
WiiS ROCK!!!!!! GO NINTENDO!!!!! GO WiiS!!!!
PSPftw, stop complaining. the wii is AWESOME!! The graphics and sound on the wii is not bad at all.
i disagree with pspftw. the graphics and sound don’t matter, i mean, what’s better: a game with excellent graphics like the PS3 but is really boring and stupid, or a game with not-as-good graphics like the gamecube and is best game you’ve ever played? think about it.
Nintendo makes bad consoles. The Wii has terrible graphics. The online offerings are stupid. The Gamecube had Nintendo 64 graphics that were just smoother. The Nintendo 64 has a bad controller design. The Game Boy series have terrible 3-D graphics and the 2-D graphics look old-school. The DS can break easily and it has the worst 3-D graphics. I won’t even talk about the Wi-fi connection. The PS3 is the best. the graphics own, the sound owns, the price is worth it. Mario games are so boring. Super Mario Galaxy is garbage compared to Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
+ the Wii’s graphics aren’t too bad.
A lot of these guys have a point. Honestly, I think Wii and DS are the obvious choices, though. While the other systems look good, the Nintendo sysems are funner. Did you get games to stare at them or play them? C’mon people!
Find me on Nintendo Wi-Fi
Guitar Hero is Awesome
I agree with anonymous, but my favorite game for wii is Guitar Hero III and for DS- Pokemon Diamond.
they favor nintendo too much. I think it was just unfair to all to other consoles.
I would like a wii.
the wii is awsome
The Wii is definitely the best. My mom waited in line at midnight to get one for my family and she said it was worth it!
I think that its good that the PSP games are like the PS2. If you like the PS2, then you can take your games with you.
I disagree that the DS is better than the PSP. The screen is grainy and even the BL magazine says that the stylus is clumsy. It also doesn’t play music, videos, go on the internet, or have the responsive controls from the PS2. All in all, the PS2 is the better one.
This would be the coolist thing that you made.
awsome
I agree with BL. The Wii is definitely the best console. I think Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga is too big for the older consoles.
the Wii is best becouse Super Mario Galaxy is cool and Super Smash Bros. Brawl is cool and LEGO Star Wars: The Compete Saga wii
Metroid Prime 3 is an amazing game, but I didn’t like the “friend voucher” idea, so I guess Lego SW complete saga is better.
While I agree with the many of the winners, I thought Metorid Prime 3 should of been where Lego StarWars was.
wiiis so tite
PSP is the best and it has the coolest games.
the psp is the collest syectem in the world
wii
Zach is right madden 08 is the best game in the PsP
Dude I thought the review for the consols were great ,but I have a Nintendo DS and personally I think PSP’s are better, any way The Wii Rocks
I have a playstation but i wont a wii,la ego star wars,and mario and sonic olimpic games and I tried a lot of things to this things so pleas give me want I wont.
how do u win dis stuff
Dear Boy’s Life
I love nintendo. and I love nintendo wii’s. I used to have PS2 but it broke. And my family is to poor to get me a new game consell. So iI relly wish I could have 1 thank you
I have a wii and ds they are both fun but i think the wii is better
COOL. BUT I WOULD PICK PARTY PINIATAS INSTEAD OF SUPER MARIO.
i would a psp.
i would a nintendo ds.
i would love to have a brand new wii for me and my familoy and i would take good care for it
can you win stof
l wish i coul win the wii
i have games like yhat i have a wii omg!
I have a nintendo wii too! : ]
HOW DO YOU WIN!
WHERE IS THE iPOD THING?!
I WANT A WII
i don’t realy like the wii because it dose not have good graphics but i have one
I DON’T NEED TO WIN A WII BECAUSE I HAVE 1.
I HAVE THE WII!!!
I love awards
i always love the wii
I think Thrillvile off the rails should have won
I thank that wii are cool and nice like you .
STAR WARS ROOCKS!
I need to win relly bad “I BETED FOR IT!
Yo,nintendo slayer NINTENDO ROCKS SO HARD!!!!!!! take that !!!!!!
i want to win a wii for my cousins
The wii the PS3 and the X BOX 360 ROCK IF YOU PLAYED GUITAR HERO3 FACE ME.
PSP rules.
I want a netendo ds because every girl has it in my class and they say you don’t have a
netendo ds.
I want a wii because my father does not let me but if this is award i will like to earn it some people say every body has Wii ! and you don’t
I think it is nice to give out awards because the 2007 Boysle Awards are so generous.
i have a wii. can i win one for somone elce?
im having a wii party in springbreak
I WOUID LIKE TO WIN THE WII A LOT.
LOVE,
CADE
you guys are so funny.i lurn a lot about scouts in your books.
a wii
ps3 rocks
wii rocks
how can you win a wii
Woah! Your dad OWNS it?!
Wouldn’t you be a millionare or something then??
i dont know the wii doesnt have that many good games by my opinion
The best game for PSP is `Marvel Nemsisis`.
i love it
I think ps3 is better becouse it has the best playing screen,a store,doweds,blue way disc and way more p.s this is all true.
madden 08 rocks
the wii rocks[in a way]
wii is cool and stuff
halo 3 is good
before you turn your game cube on hold down Z and turn your game cube on and it will sound squeaky and lagugh like a little kidd lol.
my dad owns nintendo so i have all systems wii psp psp2 and a sega wich is verry verry old.
I Have a wii, a ds, and a psp. not all psp games are for adults! Loco Roco, Tony Hawk, Etc, Etc
I want one!
I hava a WII & a DS
common nintendo hasnt changed since 64 buy a xbox 360 or a ps2
Wii is just a trend nintendo will get tired and stop making games for the wii
and start on a new system. the only reason the Wii is the best seller
is becuse its cheaper NOT BETTER becuse think about it mario is for babys
and if you dont like him and you get a wii well your out of luck
-nintendo slayer
the wii wins for others i don’t know thanks for boys life
I like star wars!
Wiis beat them all, Back off microsoft and the rest, Nintendo has always been the Top sellers, and the top most fun!
wii is the best console!
I need a wii.
you are doing a grate job and you are very kind for doing this for kids.
CAN I GETONE OF THE GAMES
weres the exercise page wii man says
CATEGORY ONE: Best Consol
Winner: Wii
(Nintendo of America) that’s why they call me “WII MAN”
where the heck is pedro for the wii.
Andy (if you read this) the wii is not stupid and if you think that why? maby you like another system? ps it rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Runner-up: LEGO Star Wars: The Compete Saga
(LucasArts Entertainment for PS3, Wii, Xbox 360, DS; Rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and Older)
First of all, a word to LucasArts: Why isn’t this game on PS2, Xbox and PC?
LucasArts took all the deep gameplay goodness that made the previous two LEGO Star Wars games so great and combined them into one huge title. If you don’t already have LEGO Star Wars I or II, here’s your chance to relive all six Star Wars movies through the eyes of blocky little LEGO characters.
look on the wide squat on the exsersise page! Just another hint from wii man!!!!
tell me where to find a wii
I need a wii now, but i can’t find PEDRO. Where is He?????????????????????
here’s a hint for how to find pedro- he is in a clicable spot on the page he takes you!
hope this works!
The wii rocks I NEED to wiin! badly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how do you win an wii?
I’ll do anything for a Wii!!!!!! And where’s Pedro! The contest doesn’t end until Feb. 23! This isn’t fair!
The 2007 Boysie Awards is awesome! You can win a Nintendo Wii!
Pedro is not here! I want the Wii.
where is pedro!! i need a Wii!! AAAHHHGGGG
want a wii so bad.
i like the wii the best of all, even better than a ps3.
wii`s are AWESOME!!! i hope i WIN!!!
I love your idea of winning the nintendo wii.I really wish i win. I`v been trying to get my hands on a wii for a long time. I realy hope I win. BY ps I love the magazine. it`s cool
I soooooo want the wii because it is so cool!
I want a wii so badly :[ :[
i need that wii for my moms birthday
PSP is the best.
wii stinks
I think they are all great, and I have been doing chores for my neighbors in order to earn money to purchase some of them. Haven’t made much yet, but I’ll keep working until I can get it.
i have a wii it is awesome
man!
wii’s are soooooo awsome!!!!
I wish I had one.
🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
Wii,s are hard to point.My brother has one but he will not let me use it.So i can use my own.
“i want my wii”
I HATE THE WII ITS STUPID
I WANT A WII SO BAD .AND I WANT MARIO PARTY DS
If I Were to rate the top 3 consoles I would say SNES is #1 because it is the pinnacle of 2d gaming with best music, best stories, and best all around gameplay; #2 is probably the gamboy sp, you can play awesome games like metroid fusion, zelda four swords, and you also get to play the game boy color games, like the I don’t know how many mario games which you can’t play on ds; and in #3 I would have to say the 64 bit nintendo, (N-64), the best games for this are the original super smash brothers, which if it had more stuff to do, would be superior to the next 2 because of better gameplay, plus theres two of the best zelda games, mario 64, mario kart(highly recommended) and a whole lot of others that I can’t remember right now. So instead of asking for a 200 dollar wii, just ask for a 30 dollar Super nintendo and you can get whoever it is that is buying you it to spend the other 170 dollars on the greatest games in history.
when are they going to make a pedro game!?!?!
I REALLY REALLY WANT A WII!!!!!!!!!!! My friend has one and it looks soooooo fun so I hope I can get one
i want a wii so bad
neeed the will help
i want’ed a wii for cristmas but santa did not bring me one he gave me a robosapien and a bike that looks like a motor bike but it is not a motor bike but i relly want a wii with guitar hero 3 with the guitar for it and i relly relly relly relly want a wii so bad because they are the hotest thangs ever i love wiis so can you send me one
I realy need to get a wii!
videogames rule.
i want a wii really bad.,
wii rules. it is better than anything else!
where the heck is pedro?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
you are nice.
The WII is so cool that i have all my $100 for the family WII
Star Wars Battlefront Renegade Squadron is the best game on the portable game systems.
PSP rules.
The wii rocks!!! I didn’t want one till I realized how much fun it is playing it!!!!
I want that WII so BAD !
Nintendo Wii is the best game system EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wood like to get my son a wii very much.
I want a wii so bad,
that I can` t find them at stores.
videogames rule
thats the best
Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga is better than Super Mario Galaxy!
Does any1 know where pedro is? He’s like impossible to find. I doubt he’s even on the website
The wii is awesome!!!!!! psp is so cool too,but wii is for families.
umm i wrote a comment here that had nothing bad but it didn’t get approved
HOW DO YOU FIND PEDRO
wii is a cool game i am still trying to fine the icon
wii rules =)
NINTENDO ROCKS!! 😀
I think that wii is good in first place.
star wars lego ROCKS and is wayy better than ds
I would like to try Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.
hey thats awesome.
why are most of them from nintendo
good job
yes i want the Wii and mario party ds
Good job on the program.
The WII is awesome.
wow this is esey
I BEAT MARIO PARTY DS (TRUE)
Madden 08 baby!!!!!!!!!!
Hi guys Your great See Yah
Yes! i agree 100% with this review. wii has the most family oriented game play and games. and mario galaxy…i think Mario and sonic at the olympics should have gotten runner up.
Super Mario Galaxy was the right choise for best game of the year, but how did LSTCS get runner up?
the wii is awesome and super mario galaxy is a good match with the wii its easy its fun and actiony the ending is sad were the lumas (the yellow thing on the case that looks like a star) gets sucked into a giant blackhole and make a non evil universe then mario awakens on the new planet were mushroom kingdom sits
nintendo producus r da best!!
I agree, I have a DS, PS2, PSP, and have played the Wii. All great game consoles.
I was scrolling along the website and I found this, turns out, it’s great!
I agree with all of the votes, but I think the sports winner should be a tie between The Bigs and Madden 08. Other than that, it’s all great.
I agree that the Nintendo Wii is the best game console, but the PSP should be the best portable game system.
MADDEN 08 IS THE BEST
i hav a wii. it rules!
A wii could be entresting for my family.
A wii could win becouse its a powerful game sestem.
the WII outsold all the other systems because it is cheaper. o ya kahu…blue-ray games do not exist. The ps3 plays games on a totaly different type of CD. It has a blue-ray disc reader for blue-ray dvd’s.
i want to win a will. how can i win that????????????
I’m glad the Wii won because I have a Wii myself.I got one for christmas and my friend Aron’s mom won a PSP and gave it to him. I’ve seen the PSP graphics before. There not that bad as the XBOX. I’m already a pro at Wii bowling and Wii tennis!
all i wanted for my birth day was a wii and for xmas.
I agree with slash why isn’t guitar hero 3 on there
I can’t believe the DS beat the PSP (play station portable.) in the handheld category. But I think it’s good because I have a DS and not a PSP
I like Wei!
I think RRR2 is better than RRR1 because it’s much easier.
and yet it’s still challenging
the wii is awsome but i think they should have called it somthing diffrent. sony stinks go nintendo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Wii entertains my family(except my little brother).
Well, I almost thought that the PS3 would win because it is powerful but I’m glad to say that the Wii won. I have a Wii myself.
What, is this thing rigged?!? Nintindo won for every thing, just becuse the games are more family oreintated. If you ask me PS3 and XBOX360 should of won for best graphics and PSP should of won for biggest screen. Oh and by the way just to show my support for SONY i typed this whole thing on my PSP.
KND563
RS PLAYER
I definitely do not agree w/ the Boysie awards. The PlayStation 3 is the best system in the world. Just think, Blu-Ray Games! Oh, yeah. A thing about the Wii? Well, I got a Zapper for the Wii, and I have to aim really high to get the target on the screen. So, get a Wii if you want, but I recommend a more expensive PS3 for your dream system. I can see it now. Actually, I have a PS3 80-gig. It is awesome!
That is awsome that the Wii won.But I want one and this will make it harder to get one probably.
WHY ISN’T GUITAR HREO III ON HERE?!?!?!?!?!
Great awards and good words to LucasArts, BL.
this is true the best party game is rayman raving rabids i know i have it
I want a wii
I do not have a wii but its exelent I would a score of an 1,00000000,00000
The Wii is the best console ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever. Unless they make a newer Wii 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7or…
why did they not put the complete saga on ps2?
I am going to tell you my votes for each game.Madden 08**,The bigs*****,fifa -08****,raman raving rabbies 2 *,mario party ds *****,Namco muesim remix****,via pinata*,supper mario gulziky ***,zelda (no stars),star wars ****.p.s the bigs and mario party wins!!!
NINTENDO WII IS THE BEST THERE WILL EVER BE FOREVER (even though i dont have one but play at friends house) 🙂
Nintendo D.S.’s rock!!!
Go Super Smash Bros Brawl!!!
RRR! and RRR2 are really fun and funny games to play.I have RRR1 for the PC and its lol funny. I’m stuck on a super hard level that really fustrates me. Other than that Rayman Raving Rabbids ROCK!!!!!
RRR1 and RRR2 are fun and funny games. I have the first one for the PC and its lol funny. But i’m stuck on the bunnies don’t shear sheep level. Go Rayman raving rabbids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xbox 360 are for real gamers
Where’s Warioware:Smooth moves? It is a better party game than RRR2.
ROK ON Q-TIP!!
Nintendo Wii and DS ROCK!!!
Madden08 is the best game for PSP.
cool!