Do you remember when Nintendo had made Monday the best day of the week? One Monday in particular: Christmas Day, 2006. Wii was still brand new, and it was the beginning of the craze. There were already some great games on the Virtual Console, such as Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario 64, but on this Christmas Monday, Nintendo showed gamers that it was serious about the Virtual Console, that it was serious about giving gamers the opportunity to play some of the best games that had ever been made.
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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We want our VC back in it's prime. Nintendo needs to stop thinking Wiiware is somehow going to suffer because of a few more choices in VC. They have over 20 years worth of titles if not more to add and it feels like they just aren't trying. As an old school gamer I look forward to any new VC titles. By nintendo skipping out on providing these they are really attacking their most core gamer.
To me, from the beginning, The wii was all about bringing everything that has made gaming great into a single console. It represented a pinnacle in the Nintendos timeline. Giving us the option to play everything from NES up to GC plus seeing what competitors offered on the side.
Why would they stop doing that. Here we are, with maybe 3 or 4 VC releases in almost a month. This is an issue and Nintendo Faithful need to speak up or we may never see another. Though i have enjoyed playing pulseman admittedly.