regmcfly wrote:

You can get it for like £10-15 now

Nice, cheers.

Endless Ocean is another I wanted but seemed a bit steep at the time.

If you re on a Wii Spree here's my out of date collection pictures with comments:

Top notch 2D platforming


I sold Paper Mario. Lovely game but not my thing. Sports Mix is so-so due to lack of depth but good in multi-player


RE. Can't go wrong. Solid light gun games too.


I like the Conduit games but I'm not really an FPS bod. The Wii control scheme is excellent though. Got rid of the COD games.


Sonic sports game. Not great. Got shot of the London one which has a tedious board game that gets in the way.


Great examples of motion control done right. Gottlieb pinball has great nudge control. The 2nd Boom Blox is slicker - you only need one of them.


Sold these. They're OK - but you're better off with Nintendo mini game offerings. If I was getting one of these I'd get the original.



Top drawer light gun. Zelda Crossbow is underrated.



Nintendo does mini games. All great. Wii Music is a toy not a game and a charming collectable. The drumming gives you another thing to do with the balance board as it's used as pedals. Wii Party was a late release that many missed - some rather nice tactical games here and some games for kids with interesting use of the wiimotes. (One mode has it making different sounds and the kids have to find it after you hide it)


Smarty Pants is a basic but rather good quiz game. Big Brain Academy is good too - has multi-player modes that are competitive. Wouldn't bother with the other two. Wii Chess is nice only if you are a collector.



I found deBlob overrated and tedious. Got rid. Trauma Centre is good use of motion control.



Fruit Fall was a cash in early release. Collector fodder. It's OK. Bust-a-Move has an interesting motion option which makes it feel different enough for a look. Jewel Quest Trilogy is choc-full of content and pointer control is optimal. Tetris Party Dx is similar - piles of modes - more than the WiiWare version - and my favourite take on Tetris.


I have yet to play Pikmin on Wii!


Only kept All Stars Racing. Colours was nice but I'm not a big Sonic fan.


Shmups on Wii - Blastworks was a nice idea but I found it dull to play. Sold it. Metal Slug Anthology is nice but is almost ruined by idiotic control options. No classic control support either. Saved by the GC controller option. No dpad (they really did try and screw this game up) but the stick with its grooves works well.


Mushroom Men is a nice 3D adventure game but it wasn't my thing. Sold Monster Hunter Hunter. Namco Museum has nice but dull 3D remakes. It has a handful of emulated classics with some oddities you won't have seen before included. A mixed bag - one for collectors. Worms on Wii is rather good.


Sold Monopoly Collection(the original game is solid enough but Streets is annoying). The solo release of original Monopoly is buggy and doesn't always save your progress but this version seems to work OK. Everything else is very good.


Pacman Party is a very nice tactical game that the Mario Party devs should have looked at. MP8 is still OK though some of the motion games are hit and miss. MP9 is just pure luck though nicely presented. Boom Street is an excellent tactical Monopoly style game (there's more to it than that but that's the nearest I can think of). Really nice presentation although you can't save your progress in multi-player which is a mad design decision as a game takes a couple of hours.


Biggest Loser ? Never booted it up. Sold. They screwed up Samba though once you realise how the control works it isn't as bad as you initially think. Have kept Samba. Wii Fit Plus is still entertaining.



Solid. Raving Rabbids Collection is great value. But feeling a bit clunky now.


Mensa isn't worth your time (though it has genuine, tough Mensa tests in one mode) Fritz Chess is shovel ware.



Kept all these except VT4 which is clunky and contrived. Better to stick with earlier releases. Wing Island is a charming Pilotwings style game that got criticised but I like it.  Angry Birds is completely at home on Wii because of the control.

Mushroom Men is a good curio.  Les Claypool provided the soundtrack iirc (may have just been a couple of tracks, got the album somewhere).

A picture I missed

Animal Crossing - my daughters loved this. I never got it. Metroid 3 replaced with Trilogy.
Warioland - lovely looking game - mean to go back to it.
WarioWare isn't as good as the Gamecube game but still good fun.
Punch Out - top drawer - really good remake.
Smash Bros - not really my thing - but a ton of content here.




Some more recommended but not pictured:

Ivy the Kiwi - gorgeous looking platformer with original pointer based control. Very nice indeed with 4 player modes.

Rhythm Paradise : Beat the Beat - excellent port to the Wii. 

Monkey Ball Banana Blitz needless addition of a jump button but the main game is nice. Pile of minigames but the quality isn't a patch on the GC games.

Monkey Ball Step n Roll got this for another balance board game - fine for that.

On the off chance someone isnt aware of this

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?sort=titleSorter

Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable

*takes long drag*

Mmmm. Mmmm.

I had a Boy and his Blob and Muramasa when I was picking up oddities to play.  Couldn't get on with up for jump in Muramasa and never unwrapped B&HB.  Ebay says I got £24.56 for it, so I'm not sure whether I did well.  Was £11.99 from Play.com originally though, so I did well enough.

Asteroids Dx update.

The original failed power supply has arrived back at the suppler (Philadelphia). After repair they are going to test it in an Asteroids Deluxe they are working on next week..

So when it gets back to me it should be perfect. It means the one I'm using now can be a spare. Though I might see if I can swap it or get it modded so it is 100% compatible for sound.

Can you buy a retropie with all mame roms preinstalled? I really want one with arcade game roms from late 80s and early 90s.

Also im lazy and cant be arsed building one myself.

davyK wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

2) Let's Tap - would love it with the tap box

I'm lucky enough to have 4 tap boxes. 

Youre the reason I can't find them

Youtube:
Cinermassacre
Classic Gaming Quarterly
The Gaming Historian
Console Wars
Did You Know Gaming
Metal Jesus Rocks
Wrestling With Gaming
SNES drunk (covers other stuff)
Slopes Game Room

Podcasts:
The Retro Hour
Maximum Power Up
Thirty Twenty Ten (covers movies and music too)

Can agree with most of those YT recs apart from Metal Jesus. I find him incredibly annoying. Game Sack > MJR.

Also, My Life In Gaming is not bad at all.

Not letting go of my phone on the commute is the main reason I never replaced the broken Blackberry.  Books*/GBA/Vita see me through nicely.  

Got Youtube/internet access most of the day at work now though, will check out a few of the recs, cheers.

*Not a single one since the 52 games thing started last year though, for shame.

SummoningSalt on youtube does really good analysis videos on the progression of speedrun world records.

afgavinstan wrote:

Not retro per se but I won't stop shouting about Noclip from the rooftops. Just released the second part of their Warframe documentary. Part one, like all their stuff, was just great.

Seconded. The DOOM stuff was great.