This. If you were born before 2000 you're not a zoomer. The choice to start it in 1995-1997 was deliberately started by journalists and corporations after Occupy Wall Street threatened their power and they needed to get the new kids on the block fighting with each other.
Zoomer here. It was the hottest fricking thing at launch and it brought my family together for the only time. Too bad that ended when everyone got tired of wii sports. I still played it though and I was completely on the hype train for Brawl. I watched the e3 trailer probably 2 dozen times. I'm still not over Other M being mediocre because I got it for my birthday the year it came out.
Oh shit, I almost forgot about modding it and using gamefly to rip ISOs off of rented discs. That's how I got a majority of my games. My mom thought the FBI was gonna come for me. The wii is actually amazing when you mod it. Home brew emulators were also how I played a lot of old games for the first time.
> It was the hottest fricking thing at launch and it brought my family together
This, was amazing. Spent hours bowling with the senpai damily. If they could have capitalized on that instead of the lack luster library and shovelware it received, it could have been goat. Wasted potential.
I cracked mine and my 8 year old has been enjoying it for bit more than a year now.
Your family gathers around to play the typical casual games like Wii Sports, and when they've seen everything the game has to offer good luck convincing them to play another game with you, unless you had a younger/older brother or sister who decided to play with you to spend the day. After that's done all that's left is you and the shitty Mii's you made of your family members or took from the internet
I had fun with it. Though before I sold it I spent more time looking at trailers for wii and ds games and was surprised by how....diverse the library was. TWEWY, Madworld, Arc Rise Fantasia, Chrono Trigger DS, Sengoku Basara, etc
A ton of shovelware but also hidden gems. Lots of experimentation and AA studios trying different things. Also lots of quality nintendo titles. Honestly better than the switch if you dont mind motion controls
To this day it's the only video game console worth owning because it puts family entertainment ahead of everything else. Had the best library of games in video game history because of the VC.
In 2010 you'd go over to a b***h you met on MySpace's house to watch a movie and the b***h would turn on a Nintendo Wii on a 27" 4:3 TV to watch something in 480p. Now they act like they know what the frick HD is.
Wii got me back into gaming. A lot of games had soul that was lacking on other systems
Rail shooters, prime trilogy with motion aim, smg, no more heroes. I have a giant wii collection of all the games that were legit nes style and still play them.
Red steel 2 was the best motion sword gun game, one of the most fun i have ever played.
31-year-old anon here.
I
remember hating the motion controls with every fibre of my being at the time but coped because I got one for Christmas and got it before I got a PS3 and 360.
Only ever got into it once it was super easy to soft mod and then ever only played first-party stuff because the third-party stuff was 90% shovelware garbage for normies.
It'll always just be the console with a shit control scheme in my mind tbh.
I actually really liked the nunchuck, but the wiimote was shit. I wouldn't mind another controller that allows you to sit with each hand separate going forward as long as the design is better.
wii sports was the shit in college, especially bowling
virtual console was pretty cool too being able to play neogeo and tg16 games, even though i emulated as well.
backwards compat with gamecube was the cherry on top
great console, i still have mine hooked up with SNK arcade classics and play streets of rage 2 and contra 3 with my wife on occasion
The best console that everyone pretended to hate for stupid reasons. >has an actual big ass library of good games, like Nintendo hadn't had since the SNES >NooooO! Nintendo betrayed me! I need to play Assassin's Creed and Bioshock!
Gaming culture was fricking moronic back then.
My dad waited in line at walmart to get this. It was weird because he does not give a shit about video games but for whatever reason this struck a nerve with him and every other boomer.
>Zillennial
It sounds like a cope word, but the shit that older zoomers grew up with(late 90's holdovers, sixth-gen consoles, tail end of the "wild west" internet era) is so wildly different from what younger zoomers grew up with that putting them all under the same generation is kind of silly.
Someone born in 1997 would relate more to someone born in 1993 than they would with someone born in 2010.
Correct, which is why the word zillennial exists. The people who decided to lump people born in the 90s with people born in the 2010s were making a calculating decision to create a war between people born in the 90s who grew up in the same world by lumping in people who remember life before iPhones with people who don't even remember life without iPads.
>Someone has more in common with someone else who was born 4 years before than with someone who was born 13 years later
No shit moron, the latter one isn't even from the same generation
It was great. I already loved the GameCube and was insanely hype for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I thought the web browser was sick. I mean, YouTube on a video games console? Wow.
It was very easy to homebrew, too. I bought a handful of Virtual Console games but got much more use out of it as an emulator box as the 2010s closed in. It was a hardworking Street Fighter and Bomberman machine.
Fun console until mid-gen where HDTVs were reasonably priced along with the 360/PS3, and then you couldn't go back to 480i last-gen visuals on the Wii. Much as I fricking loved No More Heroes and Mad World.
At least 480p was an option if you bought the component cables (no one bought the component cables). Plus outputting 240p was a really huge bonus for stuff like VC, even though most people won't really notice how much that improves the picture.
I really wish Nintendo released an HDMI version down the line. They already tooled around with the board to remove the GC backwards compatibility, why not add something back to make up for it?
The year they launched they were impossible to get where I lived. My mom broke down near tears the week of Christmas because she couldn't her hands on it. Pretty comparable to how hard the PS5 / Xbox Series X were to get.
The other posters who said you played it with your family for about two days were right. We got it, did the whole Wii sports thing, then my family moved on. Weirdly my in-laws still have theirs hooked up for bowling today...
Everyone I know who had one can name 1-2 games they enjoyed (for me it was Super Paper Mario but I know others who really liked Galaxy, etc). Brawl, in my mind, was the single biggest let down of any video game ever. The e3 + dojo has the hype for this game at astronomical levels. My cousin and I got it on launch and 24 hour marathoned the Space Emissionary - then put it down to never touch it again as the actual gameplay was dogshit compared to Melee.
Other than that though, online console gaming was taking off and everyone was obsessed with COD & Halo (my friends and I included). Nintendo gambled on the motion control play and aside from that, it just felt like they were trapped in the last gen.
In retrospect, the Virtual Console was incredible. Essentially the whole catalog, available ala cart for very reasonable prices - would kill for this today on the Switch. Doubled as a GC with reasonably priced component cables cables. Whole thing was even better once you jail broke it too.
Been gaming since SNES and I don't think there has ever been anything like it since.
Bought it, family used it as a Wii Sports/Wii Music/Wii Fit machine for a year or two, then they all moved on. I used it as a Brawl machine for a few more years after that.
I mainly use it to play GameCube games on my external hard drive these days.
you played Wii Sports with your family and had fun
you jerked off to newgrounds flashes and paheal on the Internet Channel since you had to share the computer with family
you downloaded NES and SNES games and played them for the first time
you had an indescribable amount of fun with the mii channel votes channel, popularity channel, spinning the globe on the weather channel, selecting the news channel and not understanding politics but you liked the setting, editing pics and sending them to friends via Wii message board, just pure pre mainstream internet fun
your family would ask you if you wanted to play Wii bowling or Wii tennis, something that had never happened prior or since
you practiced doing motion controls before it launched thinking you could play Mario 64 with them
you played all your GameCube games on it because the BC was seamless
you spent every single weeknight in 2007/2008 visiting the DOJO to see if your favorite character got announced in Brawl
you read fanfic.net and watched YouTube on the wii
you had one of the purest experiences of video game fun, that time period when you were old enough to really enjoy it but the industry wasn't at the greddy monetization level yet
you never realized those were the golden years
My mom saw me playing Mario Galaxy laying on the couch like that and she was like "ugh, I thought buying you the Wii would make you exercise."
I wasn't fat. We lived on a farm, I got plenty of exercise.
>PS3 was ridiculously expensive back in '07 >Nobody fricking had an OG Xbox in the UK and I assumed the 360 would be just as unpopular(I was wrong) >Wii was cheap and had wagglin'
My autistic 10 year old ass picked the Wii.
It was decent enough. Tried some interesting things and it was cheap and easy to crack.
I was on PC by then, but the only other console I even bothered to play on friend's house was the Wii, because it was such a different experience than the 360 and the PS3.
>What was the Nintendo Wii like?
It was like a toy console you could occasionally find good video games on. The main attraction was the motion controls, which were pretty gimmicky but still fun to use. On the flip side, if you knew what was good, you could find the really great titles which showed off how fun the console can be.
On the other hand, you also missed out on all the big name titles on the PS360, so it depended on how much you desperately needed the yearly Call of Duty or Madden/FIFA game. (You did get access to the yearly Just Dance title, thou.)
You played for 2 nights to wii sports with your friends.
Lots of fun.
You never used it again.
For me it was Warioware Smooth Moves
>Not rooting it
>Not playing every bootleg version of every Nintendo game ever
kek
A super Gamecube with mostly casual games.
"Anon! Update Day!"
I checked this literally every single day to see if they added Diddy Kong Racing and Banjo Kazooie
Wii is a zoomer console.
The Wii was 16 years ago.
exactly.
That's when it released. It then existed for years, dumbass.
It's millennial. Zoomers haven't played it.
late zoomers*
I'm a 2002oomer and the wii was one of the highlights of my childhood
I was 18 when the Wii released. Millenials consoles were the snes/gen/playstation/n64
its a genzennial console
>zoomer here
You are either too young to post here or are just baiting. The oldest zoomers are in their mid to late 20's. That's a gen alpha question
>The oldest zoomers are in their mid to late 20's.
Those are zillennials.
Zillennial is a word made up by old zoomers who want to distance themselves from young zoomers
Only zoomers deny zillennials because you're mad we had better childhoods than you.
Old zoomers are so culturally disconnected from those born after 2002 that it may as well be a thing.
This. If you were born before 2000 you're not a zoomer. The choice to start it in 1995-1997 was deliberately started by journalists and corporations after Occupy Wall Street threatened their power and they needed to get the new kids on the block fighting with each other.
Zillenials are really just the either youngest millenials or oldest zoomers
t. Fellow zillenial
No, they're in between the two.
zoomers grew up with the wii moron.
Zoomer here. It was the hottest fricking thing at launch and it brought my family together for the only time. Too bad that ended when everyone got tired of wii sports. I still played it though and I was completely on the hype train for Brawl. I watched the e3 trailer probably 2 dozen times. I'm still not over Other M being mediocre because I got it for my birthday the year it came out.
Oh shit, I almost forgot about modding it and using gamefly to rip ISOs off of rented discs. That's how I got a majority of my games. My mom thought the FBI was gonna come for me. The wii is actually amazing when you mod it. Home brew emulators were also how I played a lot of old games for the first time.
> It was the hottest fricking thing at launch and it brought my family together
This, was amazing. Spent hours bowling with the senpai damily. If they could have capitalized on that instead of the lack luster library and shovelware it received, it could have been goat. Wasted potential.
I cracked mine and my 8 year old has been enjoying it for bit more than a year now.
wtf since when does f a m change to senpai?
Post-election 2016 election.
newbie
If you weren't playing games during the Wii's lifespan you're Gen Alpha at this point.
Your family gathers around to play the typical casual games like Wii Sports, and when they've seen everything the game has to offer good luck convincing them to play another game with you, unless you had a younger/older brother or sister who decided to play with you to spend the day. After that's done all that's left is you and the shitty Mii's you made of your family members or took from the internet
I mean, that's when you busted out twilight princess, Mario Galaxy, brawl and MH Tri and enjoyed some good ass games
Exactly anon you got it
I liked the retro stuff.
Too bad they neglected the VC libraries for future handhelds/consoles
>Tri
>good
Tri is great and I will die on this hill. It suffered from lack of content for sure though
I had fun with it. Though before I sold it I spent more time looking at trailers for wii and ds games and was surprised by how....diverse the library was. TWEWY, Madworld, Arc Rise Fantasia, Chrono Trigger DS, Sengoku Basara, etc
Wait, you seriously never had a wii? I'm Gen Z and even I have one and even got to play on my older brother's gamecube.
A ton of shovelware but also hidden gems. Lots of experimentation and AA studios trying different things. Also lots of quality nintendo titles. Honestly better than the switch if you dont mind motion controls
Zoomer here, shut the FRICK up.
Most grew up with the DS and the Wii.
How old are you?
20, I turn 21 in 8 months.
To this day it's the only video game console worth owning because it puts family entertainment ahead of everything else. Had the best library of games in video game history because of the VC.
In 2010 you'd go over to a b***h you met on MySpace's house to watch a movie and the b***h would turn on a Nintendo Wii on a 27" 4:3 TV to watch something in 480p. Now they act like they know what the frick HD is.
far into the 2010s my sister was still watching the office on a wii
It was cool, smash bros. brawl was rad as frick.
felt fun and innovative
Wii got me back into gaming. A lot of games had soul that was lacking on other systems
Rail shooters, prime trilogy with motion aim, smg, no more heroes. I have a giant wii collection of all the games that were legit nes style and still play them.
Red steel 2 was the best motion sword gun game, one of the most fun i have ever played.
31-year-old anon here.
I
remember hating the motion controls with every fibre of my being at the time but coped because I got one for Christmas and got it before I got a PS3 and 360.
Only ever got into it once it was super easy to soft mod and then ever only played first-party stuff because the third-party stuff was 90% shovelware garbage for normies.
It'll always just be the console with a shit control scheme in my mind tbh.
You aren’t a zoomer if you don’t remember the Wii
Zoomers are anyone born between 1997-2012, so you can technically be too young to remember the Wii while still being a zoomer.
1992-1999 are zillennials. Zoomers are 2000 onwards.
I actually really liked the nunchuck, but the wiimote was shit. I wouldn't mind another controller that allows you to sit with each hand separate going forward as long as the design is better.
That's basically what they did with the Joycons only they're even worse.
wii sports was the shit in college, especially bowling
virtual console was pretty cool too being able to play neogeo and tg16 games, even though i emulated as well.
backwards compat with gamecube was the cherry on top
great console, i still have mine hooked up with SNK arcade classics and play streets of rage 2 and contra 3 with my wife on occasion
The best console that everyone pretended to hate for stupid reasons.
>has an actual big ass library of good games, like Nintendo hadn't had since the SNES
>NooooO! Nintendo betrayed me! I need to play Assassin's Creed and Bioshock!
Gaming culture was fricking moronic back then.
Like grown up sex
My dad waited in line at walmart to get this. It was weird because he does not give a shit about video games but for whatever reason this struck a nerve with him and every other boomer.
still worth it to buy and install homebrew
i still play some LA Machine Guns or marble mania from time to time.
It was Magical.
>Zillennial
It sounds like a cope word, but the shit that older zoomers grew up with(late 90's holdovers, sixth-gen consoles, tail end of the "wild west" internet era) is so wildly different from what younger zoomers grew up with that putting them all under the same generation is kind of silly.
Someone born in 1997 would relate more to someone born in 1993 than they would with someone born in 2010.
Correct, which is why the word zillennial exists. The people who decided to lump people born in the 90s with people born in the 2010s were making a calculating decision to create a war between people born in the 90s who grew up in the same world by lumping in people who remember life before iPhones with people who don't even remember life without iPads.
>Someone has more in common with someone else who was born 4 years before than with someone who was born 13 years later
No shit moron, the latter one isn't even from the same generation
It was great. I already loved the GameCube and was insanely hype for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I thought the web browser was sick. I mean, YouTube on a video games console? Wow.
It was very easy to homebrew, too. I bought a handful of Virtual Console games but got much more use out of it as an emulator box as the 2010s closed in. It was a hardworking Street Fighter and Bomberman machine.
Fun console until mid-gen where HDTVs were reasonably priced along with the 360/PS3, and then you couldn't go back to 480i last-gen visuals on the Wii. Much as I fricking loved No More Heroes and Mad World.
At least 480p was an option if you bought the component cables (no one bought the component cables). Plus outputting 240p was a really huge bonus for stuff like VC, even though most people won't really notice how much that improves the picture.
I really wish Nintendo released an HDMI version down the line. They already tooled around with the board to remove the GC backwards compatibility, why not add something back to make up for it?
>(no one bought the component cables)
I only ever bought them just to play GameCube games in progressive scan, oddly enough.
Bros…
Falseflag. Zoomers had the Wii.
Such a weird console in retrospect.
The year they launched they were impossible to get where I lived. My mom broke down near tears the week of Christmas because she couldn't her hands on it. Pretty comparable to how hard the PS5 / Xbox Series X were to get.
The other posters who said you played it with your family for about two days were right. We got it, did the whole Wii sports thing, then my family moved on. Weirdly my in-laws still have theirs hooked up for bowling today...
Everyone I know who had one can name 1-2 games they enjoyed (for me it was Super Paper Mario but I know others who really liked Galaxy, etc). Brawl, in my mind, was the single biggest let down of any video game ever. The e3 + dojo has the hype for this game at astronomical levels. My cousin and I got it on launch and 24 hour marathoned the Space Emissionary - then put it down to never touch it again as the actual gameplay was dogshit compared to Melee.
Other than that though, online console gaming was taking off and everyone was obsessed with COD & Halo (my friends and I included). Nintendo gambled on the motion control play and aside from that, it just felt like they were trapped in the last gen.
In retrospect, the Virtual Console was incredible. Essentially the whole catalog, available ala cart for very reasonable prices - would kill for this today on the Switch. Doubled as a GC with reasonably priced component cables cables. Whole thing was even better once you jail broke it too.
Been gaming since SNES and I don't think there has ever been anything like it since.
Bought it, family used it as a Wii Sports/Wii Music/Wii Fit machine for a year or two, then they all moved on. I used it as a Brawl machine for a few more years after that.
I mainly use it to play GameCube games on my external hard drive these days.
RE4 Wii Edition was the best port of the game.
Until the VR release came along a couple years ago. Still is high praise for the Wii release, despite being easier due to onscreen crosshair.
you played Wii Sports with your family and had fun
you jerked off to newgrounds flashes and paheal on the Internet Channel since you had to share the computer with family
you downloaded NES and SNES games and played them for the first time
you had an indescribable amount of fun with the mii channel votes channel, popularity channel, spinning the globe on the weather channel, selecting the news channel and not understanding politics but you liked the setting, editing pics and sending them to friends via Wii message board, just pure pre mainstream internet fun
your family would ask you if you wanted to play Wii bowling or Wii tennis, something that had never happened prior or since
you practiced doing motion controls before it launched thinking you could play Mario 64 with them
you played all your GameCube games on it because the BC was seamless
you spent every single weeknight in 2007/2008 visiting the DOJO to see if your favorite character got announced in Brawl
you read fanfic.net and watched YouTube on the wii
you had one of the purest experiences of video game fun, that time period when you were old enough to really enjoy it but the industry wasn't at the greddy monetization level yet
you never realized those were the golden years
You had fun
It was pretty comfy, I downloaded all the channel WADs on my vWii recently, it's neat having them there.
My mom saw me playing Mario Galaxy laying on the couch like that and she was like "ugh, I thought buying you the Wii would make you exercise."
I wasn't fat. We lived on a farm, I got plenty of exercise.
"And what is your excuse you shit ugly fat c**t?!"
-The only acceptable response.
A blurry Wii U with no portable screen.
Bad unless the game supported traditional controls
my parents got me and my brother a wii instead of a ps3 and we turned into social rejects
I don't think it was the Wii that did it bud.
nope it was. all my friends were playing cod and i was playing wii sports
I also missed out on COD since I didn't have a 360 or PS3 either, but that was like fifteen years ago man.
>PS3 was ridiculously expensive back in '07
>Nobody fricking had an OG Xbox in the UK and I assumed the 360 would be just as unpopular(I was wrong)
>Wii was cheap and had wagglin'
My autistic 10 year old ass picked the Wii.
>Wii Sports
>Brawl
>Mario Party 8
All those good times, gone..
It was decent enough. Tried some interesting things and it was cheap and easy to crack.
I was on PC by then, but the only other console I even bothered to play on friend's house was the Wii, because it was such a different experience than the 360 and the PS3.
>What was the Nintendo Wii like?
It was like a toy console you could occasionally find good video games on. The main attraction was the motion controls, which were pretty gimmicky but still fun to use. On the flip side, if you knew what was good, you could find the really great titles which showed off how fun the console can be.
On the other hand, you also missed out on all the big name titles on the PS360, so it depended on how much you desperately needed the yearly Call of Duty or Madden/FIFA game. (You did get access to the yearly Just Dance title, thou.)