
Exclusive hands-on report of Mario Party 8 suggest a less than desirable gaming experience.

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.

Debuting in Season 9, all players can try a beta of The Crew Motorfest’s new ambitious track creator, TrackForge.
forward to this game seeing how my nintendo wii gets no play right now good thing i'm renting it from gamefly and i hope it does not disappoint.
the wii has enough mini game based titles.
you know I'm just getting a little sick of this Nintendo is the only one with gimicks crapola. Okay so I'm pretty sure 1080p is a gimick to sell stuff. Playing a DVD on a gaming console is a gimick. Streaming stuff from a PC to your gaming machine is a gimick. Downloadable content is a gimick. Online store is a gimick. Hell a gaming machine itself is a gimick. Mario Party was all about this kind of stuff in the first place from what I understand, so it's hardly a downfall, if you liked the previous Mario Parties that is
Isn't it going to get a bit old, being the 8th in the series? I mean, FF can do it, but thats because every one of them is different(or should be). You can only do so much with one concept and one game type.