This Wii Fun bundle is the standard set up most people would want if they were after the Wii Fit set up. It’s for one person, so you’ll maybe have to think about getting a second controller; but if you are starting out with the Nintendo Wii and, perhaps, you are especially interested in the [...]
When you point your Wii Remote at the sensor bar on your television and press the power button to start it up the first thing you see on your TV screen is the Wii Menu. The Wii menu is that grid of 12 rectangles which appear on your TV screen. It’s like the operating system [...]
Bonanza Bros is an old Sega game, back from the Sega Genesis days in 1991, that was re-released on the Wii on January 29 2007 for the price of 800 Wii points, allowing new gamers to experience its odd mix of stealth and platforming.
Bonanza Bros uses a weird cartoony graphics style that, while it isn’t [...]
The Nintendo Wii is one of the most popular gaming consoles around. Since its release late last year, it has been incredibly hard to find and purchase one as each new shipment sells out almost immediately, the demand still outweighing the supply four months later. For those still without a Wii, finding a good source [...]
When the Nintendo Wii first launched, it came packaged with the brilliant Wii Sports, an outing that showed off the ability of the console’s motion detection as well as the ability of Nintendo to get you up and moving with your gaming. The extremely simple design led to hours of gameplay, all with a free [...]
There are few that remember the short lived glory days of the Turbo Grafx 16, a onetime competitor to the NES and Genesis consoles. However, with the release of some of the system’s classic games on the Wii’s Virtual Console, millions can discover what they were missing when it died an early death. One of [...]
Admittedly, I’d never heard of Ice Climber before Super Smash Bros. was released. I had my NES, and I played most of the classic titles, but it just never crossed my path until it was rereleased over 20 years later via the Wii’s Virtual Console on February 12. Originally released in 1985 as one [...]
Video games have always been directly associated with sitting on your couch, slumped into a day old spot on your favorite cushion and idly pushing buttons on a blocky controller. But Nintendo has changed the face of gaming by introducing their stand up and swing format with the Wii and its famous Wii Remote.
But can [...]
First released in the first days of 1990 for the incredibly diverse Sega Genesis system, Sword of Vermillion was an early 16 bit RPG release from Sega that’s finding new life on the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console. A more or less typical hack and slash, dungeon crawling RPG, Sword of Vermillion was at the time [...]
Sega’s 1991 beat ‘em up brawler, Streets of Rage has returned in downloadable form via the Nintendo Wii’s virtual console service on February 19 and it brings with it classic side scrolling beat em up action, a genre that has sadly gone the way of the rail shooter and platformer.
Immediately compared to Final Fight, [...]
When you first get your Nintendo Wii console home and open that rather small, compact box, you might find that there are entirely too many pieces for your liking, and that setting up is suddenly a little more daunting than it should be. In all reality, it’s an easy matter, and once you get the [...]
Your parents are not out to get you. It may seem, at times, as though every aspect of their existence is devoted to making yours horrible. But the odds are strongly against it and because of that, there are some things you can do to get that very precious Nintendo Wii from them as a [...]
A Man, A Whip, and an Army of Darkness: Super Castlevania IV for Nintendo Wii.
Your name is Simon Belmont. You have a mission and a whip. The mission is to work your way through a ghoulish castle and kill Dracula. Along the way, you will be besieged by demons, ghosts, werewolves and [...]
The Fighting Game That Started It All: Street Fighter II, The World Warrior. There was so much talk about its release, people were lined up to buy it: Nintendo Wii’s Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.
Some fans were disappointed because it was modeled after the old Super Nintendo game, and not the [...]
A New Take On An Old Theme: How long has it been since you’ve played a side-scrolling space adventure game? Probably not since the early days. R-Type III brings the genre back, but with added graphics and features the old games never had, and much more.
How long has it been since you’ve played [...]
The Nintendo Wii has only been out for a short time now, but already blogs and discussion forums are filled with Nintendo fans begging for additional features. Nintendo has always been good about listening to their customers, so hopefully some of these ideas will be include in future releases of the console. Here are just [...]
With all the hours I spent playing games from the Legend of Zelda series, I could have learned to speak a language fluently, or could have gotten a Master’s Degree in nuclear engineering, but no matter. It was fun and engaging. Zelda is the granddaddy of all adventure games as far as I’m [...]
Why change a great formula? In Super Mario World for the Nintendo Wii, Mario travels through a slide screen world looking for the infamous Bowser. He jumps, hops, grows bigger and tosses fireballs. Like the other Super Mario games, there is a map of the world where you can choose which way [...]
When it was revealed prior to the Wii’s release that Nintendo was sending free developer kits to small scale game designers, people started to think that maybe the company wanted to open the door to fresh new ideas for its titles. Then, when it became known that indie game designers could get their hands on [...]
Nintendo has already had great success with the release of its new Wii gaming console. Of course, as soon as the first games were released and popularized, hackers started trying to find ways to create “backups” of these titles. Of course, by backups, they really mean “illegal copies”. Besides being illiegal and unethical, creating bootleg [...]
