Wired - By Russ Neumeier, December 30, 2007:
The GeekMom and GeekDad (Mrs. and Mr. Neumeier) got the kids a Wii for Christmas. Last night, one of the remotes went funky - you could press the buttons and select options on the screen, but when you went to swing a golf-club, bowl, pitch a baseball or swing a baseball bat, the Wii remote acted like it wasn't there. GeekDad can fix this... GeekDad knows he can...
• Fresh batteries - nope.
• Re-sync the remote - nope.
• Re-sync all the remotes - nope.
• Reset the remote - still nope.
So, GeekDad exhausted all the options for getting a remote to work given on the Nintendo support site and called (with gritted teeth) the customer service line... two days after Christmas. GeekDad expected the worst.
GeekDad was surprised. A very pleasant lady took his call within one minute of getting through the push-button maze to get to Wii Remote troubleshooting.
GeekDad explained what the problem was and what he had tried. She then asked him to check one more thing - the Wii Sensor - which checked out. Then the conversation went something like this...
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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Remember the all time remedy for fixing your original Nintendo?
Just blow! Lawl
And if blowing didnt work, then it was getting a Q Tip dipped in Rubbing Alcohol and swabbing it inside the cartridge cleaning out the gunk inside =P you'd be suprised how much dirt, dust, and black stuff appeared on the Q Tip if you've never done that before XD
I guess slapping it in your hand fixes the (lack of a better term) gyro inside? I wonder if it was stuck inside?
Finally tried the Wii over xmas and I loved the tennis. My arm was hurting the next day and for a while I couldn't figure out what caused it until I remember our marathon tennis matches! If the thing was a hundred bucks less I'd probably spring for one.
man it would make the weekly repair so much easier if there was support like this at microsoft
This time it would have saved me a phone call