Wii is about to launch here in Australia, and the second load of Wii's have now made their way into GameStop's hands available in the form of Nintendo Wii Most Wanted Bundle!
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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Once again they are forcing people to buy bundles. This sickens me. I used to love GameStop, but now get all my gaming stuff from Circuit City (sometimes Best Buy) because of this.
When they know they have some titles that won't sell on their own so they bundle up some hot sellers with the stinkers and force you to buy them with a system to reduce stock.
This is just a garbage online deal.
I've called the 15 or so "local" gamestops every single day trying to get a second damn wii-mote and no luck. :(
8th december is gonna be a night to remember in the uk. although im not gettin one on launch, i will be round at friends havin a go with it.
"9-10 years like Sony thinks it will. Consoles don't have life cycles that long. They always get obsoleted by the competition long before then. The only console I think that pushed the boundaries that far was the Atari 2600 which ran from 1977-1992. The Intellivision had a good long run, being produced from 1979-1991 but they had like 4 different owners in that time and didn't run as long as the 2600 did. "
What you're saying is true, but this is what Sony is also doing. They're going back to the old roots of hardwear business practices where you create something and sell it for long periods of time. Except this time the hardware is able to be cutomizable to an extent, but the softwear will continue to evolve through updates. It's a very smart business practice, and it works for them, than Sony will reap many rewards, and if not, then they're in trouble. This is the reason why so much is riding on the PS3. And this is why Sony will stop at no cost to assure the success of the PS3.
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