Collecting on a Budget: Nintendo Wii
Game collecting has become more and more expensive. Let's look at some games that are fun which you can actually afford!
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September 14, 2022
The Surprising Mediocrity of M&M’s Beach Party
As is the nature of many game collectors, we tend to get quite a few games in our libraries that don’t really have any saving graces to be there. Occasionally I’ll get a game I took a chance on that turns out to be decent if not good (Check out The Munchables on Wii for example). But more often than not we’ll take a chance on a random game and it turns out to be complete trash (Check out Dino Strike on Wii for example).
And then a game like M&M’s Beach Party shows up, and isn’t so terrible we can outright ridicule it, but it isn’t good so we can’t straight up recommend it either.
The struggles of game collecting, I’ll tell ya. (more…)
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July 8, 2018
Video Review – Dino Strike
Proof that just because a game is hard to come by, it doesn't mean it's wholly worthwhile. After several years of tracking this game down... it was completed in just…
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August 30, 2016
Video Review: Muramasa: The Demon Blade
Often regarded as one of the Wii's best hidden gems, how does Vanillaware's action RPG actually play? It's definitely beautiful, but it wasn't the best game out there. Watch my…
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February 26, 2016
Worth Playing vol. 9: The Wii One
The Wii is officially a generation past and with the bizarre exception of Rodea: They Sky Soldier releasing as a Wii title paced in with the Wii U version, there aren’t going to be anymore games created for Nintendo’s money-making, motion controlled system. The system has sold over 100 MILLION units worldwide, making it one of the best selling video game consoles of all time (and Nintendo’s best selling non-handheld console to date). With that many units on the market it can be easy to skip over a few gems while playing arguably some of the best games out there like Super Mario Galaxy and Resident Evil 4. I’ve compiled a list of ten awesome Wii games that are worth tracking down, even as we’re approaching the little-console-that-could’s 9th birthday! And while the Wii U is chugging along strongly, these games can also be played on that console as well, giving even more incentive to find and play them! (more…)
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April 27, 2015
Free Play: Tornado Outbreak
After finding the game for just a dollar, I decided to give it a spin. If more games were this cheap and this good, I don't think I'd ever leave…
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March 10, 2015
Video Review – Octomania
It's been a loooong time since I was active on YouTube, but I'm happy to say I'm back! I've already cut and edited three brand new video reviews for your…
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October 8, 2014
Sunday Roundup: 9/14/14
Honeycomb Beat DS Release Date: March 27th, 2007 Purchased at: Online (Amazon - $4) In my usual perusing of Amazon's wares I discovered this game was only $4, with Prime…
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September 14, 2014
Review: Guilty Party
Point and click games are some of the oldest video games out there. Despite the tenure of the genre, we don’t see too many of them spring up nowadays, likely because we’ve moved past them in the medium. Technology lets us do a lot more with games, so the archaic ways of the past usually stay in the past. Once in a blue moon a fun point and click games does arise from the proverbial ashes to make me wonder why it ever went away in the first place. Enter Guilty Party (sometimes referred to as Disney’s Guilty Party), a point and click crime drama following a very socially inclusive family trying to get to the bottom of a heinous household mystery. If you are a Wii U gamer looking for sleeper hits or unknown greats for the Wii, I would easily consider this game a “Hidden Gem” that is well worth your time! (more…)
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August 19, 2014
Sunday Roundup: 4/20/14
I was trying to think of some way to tie in Easter with this week’s roundup of games, but I couldn’t really think of any way ninjas or talking gorillas could be incorporated. I guess Mario (and to a lesser extent Wario) have some affiliation with Yoshi, who produces eggs by defeating enemies. I’m not going to dive any further into this failed analogy…
But I will tell you that a semi-sweet deal at GameStop lead me to these games. Usually the Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal is a great time for me to go nuts, but this weekend it was altered to only include games $20 or under. Kind of lame, but thankfully there are plenty of games under twenty bucks that I’d want to buy. Four, apparently!
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April 20, 2014