Tegan Purdy, 2, gets so riled up when her dad starts shaking maracas that she rips them from his hands and admonishes him, saying "no no." Oct. 14, 2016, 5:30 PM EDT / Source : TODAY Courtney Gisriel ...

Unfortunately, the maracas are wired into the mat, which sounds pretty cumbersome. The game features stacks of classic Sega music, as well as licensed music like La Bamba and TubThumping.

Before there was Guitar Hero, before there was Donkey Konga, before rhythm games were the next big thing... there was Samba de Amigo. The Dreamcast game featured motion-sensing maracas and a crazy ...

Samba de Amigo without maracas isn't quite pointless -- a sombrero-wearing monkey shaking percussion to Chumbawamba could never be pointless -- but we imagine it's less fun than it should be.

On lower difficulty levels, it’s challenging but manageable: you can often coast on lazy flicks of the Joy-Con, but it gets much more animated if you’re brave enough to nudge up the difficulty.

Alpacas with Maracas, written and illustrated by Matt Cosgrove, was read at 11:00am on Wednesday in more than 11,000 locations — mostly schools and libraries — across the country.