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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #120 on: January 04, 2008, 05:53:48 pm »
How would you do the Tamborine function, then, though?
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #121 on: January 04, 2008, 06:37:05 pm »
Make a primal grunt. Really. The mic just picks up the sound of being slapped, so you can make any real quick outburst of noise and it will register fine.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #122 on: January 04, 2008, 06:46:27 pm »
Yeah, in Donkey Konga we felt silly clapping, so we took to tapping the side of the bongos with an open palm. 

This became especially important when we discovered that a loud clap could trigger everyone's bongo in multiplayer, and an ill-timed one was particularly insidious because it could destroy an opponent's streak bonus. 
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #123 on: February 02, 2008, 01:10:49 am »
I got a Wii. It's pretty awesome.

Got Super Mario Galaxy, No More Heroes, and Endless Ocean. Also I got Super Metroid on Virtual Console. I feel a little bad about getting the Hot Expensive Awesome New System and using it to play Super Metroid but only a little becase Super Metroid is awesome.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #124 on: February 03, 2008, 09:29:10 pm »
Quote from: Ben-San on February 02, 2008, 01:10:49 am
I got a Wii. It's pretty awesome.

Got Super Mario Galaxy, No More Heroes, and Endless Ocean. Also I got Super Metroid on Virtual Console. I feel a little bad about getting the Hot Expensive Awesome New System and using it to play Super Metroid but only a little becase Super Metroid is awesome.

The ladyfriend, at my protests, ushered us into Big TV Land.   The first thing I did after setting it up was to play a round of Super Mario Bros. on the Wii.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #125 on: February 03, 2008, 09:43:23 pm »
we have a big TV. I feel like it wasn't a great decision to spend my money on a big TV.
(after that picture was taken we bought a real stand, and my roommate hooked up his nice stereo speakers.)


also, selling it at the end of the year and splitting the money seems less and less realistic by the day.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #126 on: March 13, 2008, 06:05:02 pm »
Okay, so this is probably a function of my particular age, but my youth and early adolescence were during the period between video games getting big and the Internet getting big. This meant that the people I knew could trade unsubstantiated rumors and there wasn't nearly enough information at large and easily available to immediately debunk them.

Super Smash Brothers Brawl is just exactly the game we all lied to each other about having read about in Nintendo Power. Yes, Link and Mario do team up with the guy from Metroid to fight Ganon and King Koopa. And yes, Sonic the Hedgehog is actually there too. So is Little Mac from Punch-Out but it's a cameo role. Oh! Oh! And Starfox too!

I don't know how well it will appeal to people not my age, but for me it seems squarely targeted at the people who were kids swapping lies about what the next Nintendo game was.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #127 on: March 13, 2008, 06:18:03 pm »
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the guy from Metroid

Ah, the good old days, back when we didn't have 100,000 pages of pornographic fan-fiction reminding us that the Metroid lead was actually a lady.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #128 on: March 19, 2008, 07:29:48 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on March 13, 2008, 06:18:03 pm
Ah, the good old days, back when we didn't have 100,000 pages of pornographic fan-fiction reminding us that the Metroid lead was actually a lady.

Yeah, none of the kids I knew were good enough to beat the game fast enough to get the ending where we see Samus with her armor off. And then one of us got the Nintendo Power with JUSTIN BAILEY ------ ------, we tried it, and Holy Shit Minds Blown.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #129 on: May 14, 2008, 12:38:21 am »
So you can now download games for Wii Points, generally fairly cheap. I got a couple, and I like them.

My Life As A King is kind of Final Fantasy and SimCity's bastard offspring; you're a king trying to develop your tiny settlement up into a proper fantasy-RPG city. Hire adventurers to explore the surrounding dungeons and wilderness, give them quests, make sure your town has the best upgraded swords and spells for sale, and so forth to develop from Crappy Town Where The Game Starts to Awesome City 2/3 Of The Way Through Where There's Endgame Equipment You Can't Afford Yet. It's fifteen bucks and not a bad deal at that, but the add-on content you can buy is kind of overpriced.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #130 on: May 14, 2008, 05:17:36 am »
Quote from: Ben-San on May 14, 2008, 12:38:21 am
So you can now download games for Wii Points, generally fairly cheap. I got a couple, and I like them.

My Life As A King is kind of Final Fantasy and SimCity's bastard offspring; you're a king trying to develop your tiny settlement up into a proper fantasy-RPG city. Hire adventurers to explore the surrounding dungeons and wilderness, give them quests, make sure your town has the best upgraded swords and spells for sale, and so forth to develop from Crappy Town Where The Game Starts to Awesome City 2/3 Of The Way Through Where There's Endgame Equipment You Can't Afford Yet. It's fifteen bucks and not a bad deal at that, but the add-on content you can buy is kind of overpriced.



Seriously.

Is this Wii-only, or is it on the DS as well?
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #131 on: May 14, 2008, 08:55:03 am »
As much as I hate to disappoint after that awesome mammal picture, it is Wii-only. (I hope a Can will make up for learning this.)

WiiWare is also going to be getting releases of Sam & Max Season One and Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People, which to me as a Mac user is awesome.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #132 on: September 01, 2009, 05:05:07 am »
so three years after it hit the market and at least a year after everybody else got theirs, i finally got one.

though it had wii sports included as ever, i got wii sports resort for the table tennis and i have been playing my ass off. the kicker of it is it's easy to play, almost just like holding a real paddle, but the opponents are really good at ping pong. we got it on sunday and i've already made it to "pro" level but i've plateaued since these other players are really really tough.

also: trivial pursuit is for suckers, i wish i could get my money back. house of the dead is fuck*ng tough to aim quickly; maybe there's a sensitivity setting i can futz with.

it helps that i have a 46" teevee, though that might be the problem on house of the dead.

do ye with wii still play and enjoy? what games should i get, and how many nintendo points should i shell out for?
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #133 on: September 01, 2009, 06:24:33 am »
i play my parents' wii(effing GROSS, dude!) fairly often.  take my suggestions with a grain of salt because i dont really like too many video games:

x boom blox
x tony hawks downhill jam(mildly entertaining, at least)

games ive bought from thier 'old school game retirement center':

x super mario  bros-NES
x super mario world-SNES
x dr mario party-???(we had tetris/dr mario for SNES back in the day, but i dont know if thats the system it originated on...)
x mario kart 64
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #134 on: September 01, 2009, 02:03:36 pm »
I don't have many games, since I don't have all that much time to play.  Right now I'm trying to finish up de Blob, which is goofy fun, not seriously difficult.
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