A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, gamers had an interactive game for their TVs called pong. The game was hailed by computer enthusiasts all over the United States. Soon after pong came what older gamers would remember as Atari which allowed gamers to play many different kinds of games on one console. But as great as these games were, video games were seen as nerdy and a "fad" that would die out within a year or so. In 1985 a Japanese company called Nintendo decided that it wanted to bring video games to the "casual gamer" and delivered to the world the NES.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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At the moment, technically it's inferior though the controller innovation has certainly made it attractive to a wider audience.
I keep hearing 'history repeats itself' so if that phrase is true then yes the next Nintendo console will be amazing. If Wii is the NES then whatever comes next will be the SNES. Rocking good time :)
They are still using old tech in the DS and the Wii...do you people even think they will go with like a Cell processor in the next Wii? I do not think so....the current wii does not even play back DVDs...
They gots to get their online system working before they can think about making another console.
Even the wiimote is not perfect.
mayb the wii will have a more advanced console next time but ms and sony are going to advance theirs as well so the wii will find it hard, this gen it seems they are more casual gamers than hardcore ones that is why the wii keeps on selling, next gen ps4 will be mind blowing, and x box will be better than the last one but sony will have the edge, ...bye i am goin to go play GTA4 =O
This is not news, the piece is full of grammatical errors and it isn't very interesting to read as an opinion piece as it spends most of the time stating the obvious.
I don't want to be a mean sonofagun or anything, but really, this sort of thing shouldn't be getting approved (even if it is refreshing to see something that isn't about GTA).
I think a quick re-read of the N4G submission guidelines is in order for some of the people on this site.