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TheEvilPlatypus
TotallyOriginalName
Excuse you?! 18 years if I may.
fortytwoembers
Welp, guess it’s time to take another ibuprofen
rcbean
I wish they would let the community that loves them help them innovate and stop sending out the lawyer squads. Otherwise, I adore Nintendo, and their consoles, and their games.
graehall
Odincdaj522004
You shut your Goddamned mouth and help me find the FUCKING ALEVE, Janet!
ProfFurryPaws
18 years, not 20. Wii launched in 2006. I know, I worked on that product launch. Got the tshirt
https://imgur.com/AYxmrPN
SnarfyMcSnarferson
My first console, the NES. Yes, I know, me old
TheShoggothOfMosquitoCreek
I remember being so thrilled when my brother gave me one of these antiquated monstrosities, back in 1981. When I was 9.
chrstphrsh
Lies. Everyone knows the Atari 2600 was state of the art twenty years ago.
Pervaroo
PinPointSnarkuracy
If you like that, you'll love this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjqUOjtc_lc
Harepus1
Gibleteousjack
ghsdkgb
The NES is *almost* as old now as the original Turing machine was when the NES was invented
ArkoneAxon
And its entire library is now legally free to play with emulators!
smashpro1
MightyIink
Crysis is now 17 years old.
TI99Kitty
Does it still make all your PC fans come on and roar like the engines on a 747?
GadenKerensky
It can do, actually, but more because of how it was designed at the time. IIRC, it can't make use of multi-threading.
YesButMaybe
My mother hid the controllers to our original NES for a 1 week punishment. She forgot where she stashed them. We had to buy new controllers. We still haven't found them 37-ish years later.
warzoneToefungus
Both fantastic systems.
mt77932
I had 2 Xbox red ring on me but my nearly 40 year old NES still works.
nclu
I know for a fact that the Wii is only 17 years old because I bought mine on release day 2 weeks before my first son was born and that lanky guy is standing right next to me at 6'3" watching me type this right now
Vergenbuurg
Nintendo is a wonderfully resilient company. Every time you think they've lost relevance in the market, BAM, they conquer it again.
Sidewaysgts
They’ve really only had one major failure when you think about it - the Wii U. Everything else has been a relatively good success. The switch has lasted a long time. I miss when they were the competitive power house console, but I guess them working on being the “affordable” console has its advantages too.
MotherfuckingJesseEisenburg
I didn't know it was 2026.
taez555
Didn't the Wii come out at the end of 2007?
swedeonamoose
Dec 2006
smashpro1
November in US. It was a huge hit at my family's Thanksgiving, that year.
taez555
Ah... well I stand corrected.
Imalwaysready
Well, I was rebuying old NES titles on the Wii store, so basically both images are true.
HelpTheWretched
Can't forget the *new* NES titles like Mega Man 9.
ToSisPoS
Nintendos after the 64 were like the original Star Trek films. Every second one was a dud.
Daevram1123
FoamingToad
8-bit survivor reporting in. We had 3D monster maze and Catacombs. Newfangled stuff with audio and colour? Mehhh.
magical8ball
FoamingToad
No attribute clash - C64 or 16-bit?
Nanntuckett
The Wii was awesome. Motion sensitive controllers? Hell yeah!
SensitiveGedselis
It helps that's it's much, much cheaper. Like one sixth of the price.
DerpyBestPrincess
Uh, what? Do you not know about inflation? A NES would be around $300 today. The Wii around $380.
BobisBobIsHimIsMe
I feel sorry for whoever has to play the NES with that short ass cord.
cuddleskunk
It's currently August 2024. The Wii was released in November of 2006. That's only about 17.5 years...not 20. Now...the DS was released in November of 2004, which still isn't even 20 years ago. I'm reasonably sure that the console released closest to 20 years ago while still being at least 20 years old was the N-Gage QD version which was released in May of 2004.
userfriendly19777
What playing was when I was young
pinkmilkyway
I have to admit, that actually looks fun. You know you get that hoop really zinging to the tune of misappropriating Mrs. Ingalls more delicate sensibilities +1
pdp1
Thatoneday
A Ring?!?! I just had rock
Hashbrown123
Charlie Brown?
Pheehelm
Lazarillo
I was playing City of Heroes a few months ago and during a conversation about longtime game features someone in chat noted I'd been playing said game since BEFORE THEY WERE BORN. I felt every hair on my head simultaneously go gray.
MisterLemons
Man, I remember eagerly waiting to get out of school to go play halo 2 with the neighbors and then the overwhelming hatred of the game over how disappointing the ending was.
TI99Kitty
Remember all the controversy over the Hot Coffee "mod"?
And then Jack's next target was The Sims 2, on the basis that you could disable the censor blur and see your sims NAKED? Except that the naked sims just looked like Barbie and Ken dolls? And everyone just laughed at him? And then went to sites like Genensims to download anatomically-correct skins?
TI99Kitty
(wow, nearly 20 years later, and I still remember the name of that site. TBF, though, they had some really neat stuff there.)
smashpro1
One of the finest years in gaming history.
thecowkingdom
I'm still playing world of warcraft. Just three more years an I'll have played it for more than half my life
Sigge1981
I dinged 80 earlier tonight. I haven't played continuously since launch, but I just can't seem to stay away from the game. The only thing is that I don't have the energy and the patience to raid like I did in vanilla, Burning Crusade and Lich King. Hell, even Cataclysm. I just can't, these days.
YangKoete
Burning Crusade was my time...
thecowkingdom
I don't no life it any more , but I raid every patch, get ahead of the curve and sometimes keystone master too. Honestly the game is in a good shape imo. Oh I was 80 a week ago too. Had to do the early access!
ThatPug
You know, in retrospect there really was a kind of pleasantness to the wii design. Very smooth and compact and even down to the UI it was very clean, though the early internet shit wasn't great.
FestusMA
I gave one to my son when he was 6 and he still chooses to play it quite a bit. He’s almost 12. Also has ps4, VR, and laptop games.
phyzzx
Early apps were kinda weird but they worked just fine. I used my wii for Netflix for a good long while.
ArkoneAxon
I was done with consoles by the time the Wii came out, but I remember how it outsold its competitors and was REALLY well known for being all about fun. And about games where ONE copy, on ONE console, could entertain an entire group.
thedarkcanuck
It was also pretty innovative for its time
Hashbrown123
So many nights falling asleep to the weather music.
Skuggen
And the games?
DougTheLlama
Still play wii tennis
Sigge1981
I wish I played Metroid Prime 3 more than I did.
doppelfisch
Dokapon Kingdom for life.
FireSolvesProblems
No More Heroes
quicksilver1
A Boy and His Blob, Another Code R, De Blob 1 and 2, Battalion Wars 2, Blast Works, Deadly Creatures, Disaster: Day of Crisis, Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of The Moon, House of The Dead: Overkill, Kirby's Epic Yarn and Adventure, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Pandora's Tower, No More Heroes, Red Steel 1 and 2, Sin and Punishment 2, Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, The Conduit 1 and 2, Trauma Center: New Blood, Xenoblade Chronicles, Zack and Wiki. I played more games on the Wii than the PS3/360.
YangKoete
Fun and interesting.
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
Metroid prime 3 and Other M had the best controls ever and made you feel in control of everything. Like, you became Samus for a bit.
CrimeSceneShoe
The Godfather was a blast with the wiimote.
BigDooder
Super Paper Mario, classic
Wasnbo
I might be the odd one out, but I played RE4 on the GameCube and Wii, and I liked the motion controls of the Wii better for aiming.
qtRaven
Legend of Zelda. I have never played a bad one. Made by Nintendo that is.
davisboy42
Skyward sword wasn't a good game. There's so much quality on the wii, but their zelda title was deeply flawed
Snooj
My family was addicted to Wii Fit for quite a while. The high score system was great so we were always trying to shave off seconds.
Thisisabigmistake
I might get the Wii from my parents house for Xmas for the family to play
theshinobi23
Well, the motion sensors on the Wii remotes weren't any worse than the ones on the Switch, as far as I could tell. Most games that required a specific motion did better with a wrist-flick instead of a full arm-throwing motion, and the few Switch games I've played have been the same way.
Z0op
Hehe yah i remember playing some bowling (thats in wii sports i guess?) at work a few times, and a coworker making an elaborate movement ss if really bowling , and most of the time threw a strike and being proud.
But i just sat down and made a small but straight flick with it, and pretty much threw non stop strikes :p
The controls work pretty well as long as you dont really use them as advertised.
joeyecho101
Super Mario Galaxy.
DumbledoresNipples
Even better, Super Mario Galaxy 2.
davesaint01930
Paper Mario was a fucking masterpiece
tantallous
Every Nintendo console I've purchased for myself has been purchased to play a fire emblem game.
fuckinpricksnonamesleft
Literally bought my switch to play three houses. Was fine not having one before that.
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
Mine has been for Zelda.
SheWhoRunsWithRaptors