Wii Retrospective

I think an important aspect of Bowling's success was the fact that you can play with 4 people with only one controller. It's easy to forget, but a lot of people only had one on the games launch, and it made it so that everyone could have a turn to play regardless of that.

One of the few times "Widening for a broader audience" was actually successful and not corporate Bs to excuse horrible changes

a great testament to wii bowling: I am a recreation coordinator at a retirement community and we have weekly wii bowling tournaments. It's easy enough that a totally tech-illiterate senior can adapt to it, but still has a challenging aspect. It's also not so physically straining that the participants risk any injury (we also play wii tennis but that one is a bit more involved). Bowling is a really popular program for us even in 2022.

I’m a bit upset that my family never had WiFi while the Wii was in its hay day, I feel like there’s such a huge portion of the Wii that I didn’t get to experience

This was also when the DS was at its prime. It was a great time for gaming.

I feel genuinely bad for kids who didn’t grow up with a wii. One of the most legendary consoles of all time.

After 15 years of owning a Wii, I just learned about the blue glow around the disk drive being a notification today.

7:37 hearing that menu intro brought back memories I never even thought I had. That jingle is just pure childhood bliss.

The current 2000's nostalgia wave here in youtube has been a interesting one to watch, even though i lived in this time, i barely touched the internet culture and games from that decade.

I type in things like "3DS/PS2/Wii Retrospective" disturbingly frequently on YouTube, repeating the same action over and over again hoping that I would get to maybe see a comforting, detailed love letter to some of my favourite consoles. Liam, you and your channel fill the kind of niche that my emotions are based around, they're the kinds of things I can watch numerous times and never feel like my time is being wasted. Heh, you ever notice how on retrospective-type channels, because of the upload schedule and style of narrating, everyone has to hold their comments just long enough to the point where for each new release they have to just emotionally applaud the channel creator and the topics they come up with instead of addressing something in the actual video? It's funny in a way. Anyway, yeah, I like the Wii.

Somewhat disappointed the "Conclusion" Chapter isn't called "Wii Move On", but otherwise this video was almost two hours of almost straight speaking from my heart being done for me. Good shit!

The moment the Wii menu theme hit, you took me right back to my family living room, playing with my sisters. Such a nostalgic song

This is as much a Wii U thing as Wii, but I loved the Wii transfer channel that allowed you to bring your Wii channels and saves to the Wii U. The Pikmin carefully transporting all of your data to their ship and blasting off to a new civilization was adorable but bittersweet in a way.

I have to admit that as an adult, I actually really wish things like weather and news would be integrated into menus again. I can remember as a college student looking at the supplemental pages almost daily.

RIP Iwata-San. You will be missed and your legacy will live on.

I remember a quote Iwata said during an e3 call conference about the 3ds. I think it still fits when thinking about the wii- On my business card I am a company director. In my mind I am a game developer. But in my heart I am a gamer. It didn’t feel like he was talking at others but with others. Truly a man of his time that left the world too soon.

The wii has so many flaws yet it is still the best console. The amount of memories I have with it is amazing, I really feel bad for those who did not get to grow up with one.

"We can't change the future, but we can influence it." That was beautiful.

I'm surprised that the Just Dance series wasn't mentioned at all. It was pretty much the sole series that kept the Wii from phasing out quicker than it did