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I set the Wii up in work at a Christmas Party a few times. It was set up to do a Ski Jump Challenge with the balance board but it ended up getting a lot of attention with other games.  Wii Bowling is a true gaming classic and the M+ version is a great update to it.

It's a pity the balance board was under used. A good snowboarding game would have been a no-brainer. A 1080 upgrade would have been great. Punch Out and the EA Golf games used it too - but Punch Out is exhausting using it!!!!

Here's games I could remove from my Wii collection without too much bother.

*= daughters might whine but they haven't been played in years.

Angry Birds Trilogy        (found Angry Birds so over rated. It's big problem is that Worms exists)
Angry Birds Star Wars*  (nice and with 4 player options but it's still over rated)
Animal Crossing  (girls loved it but superseded now)
Bust A Move  (many better versions of this around)
Jewel Quest Trilogy (ok but best on a handheld or a PC)
Mario and Sonic Olympics*  (fun but Sega over egged the presentation and play is very load/play/load)
Mario and Sonic Winter Olympics*  (see above)
Puzzle Quest (as for Jewel Quest - this is quite a nice , tactical game though)
Raving Rabbids : Party Collection (played out - waggle mini game. Nice but past its time)
Smarty Pants* (decent quiz game but doesn't get much play now)
Sonic Allstar Racing (superseded by Sonic Racing transformed on 360)
Super Fruitfall (landfill - a freeware puzzle cashing in on the Wii launch. Was only bought for collecting purposes)
WHo Wants to be a Millionaire 2nd Ed * (OK but quite badly done at the end of the day .  The PS1 version is all you need)
Worms Battle Islands (superseded by the Collection on 360)
Zack and Wiki (charming - might actually keep this!)
Wii Music *  (a fun toy that I might keep)
Wii Chess (collector's piece but redundant really)

I have trimmed my Wii Collection but it's probably still bloated. I have 87 games for it. My next biggest collection is 71 for Saturn.  But usually my console specific collections are between 30 and 50 games. So it's an outlier. It had a lengthy life and was quite popular so a large catalogue was inevitable.

There isn't much shovelware left in my collection though but I'm think it's time I made it more focussed.

Those boxed versions of games are very nice. I remember seeing them on release and thinking they would be collectable but I decided not to get them because they simply would not be played.

I am more about curating than just collecting now. I only collect what I will likely play.

I don't mind videos being posted if they prompt a discussion. Any comment I have made has apparently fallen on deaf ears. I see no value in posting any video clip if there is little to no response.  Most of us have YT subscriptions after all.

Difficult book to get hold of now. Expensive too.

Latest N64 acquisition. JP version of Lode Runner 64. I used to have this on PAL but sold it. The PAL port was ugly due to the squashed graphics but played well so I always wanted to play it uncompromised. Had to get the JP version of course for that lovely packaging. Import friendly too as the menus are in English.

Looks better full screen and of course remember the N64 is a CRT era console so the graphics are best viewed on a screen with scanlines as they are designed that way.

These were all bought pretty much when Gamecube was current gen. Over 2 or 3 years I'd say. Quite often I got them cheap (well - relatively cheap) pre-owned when people sold off their GC games. Though I only bought complete copies in very good condition - which wasn't difficult at that time. Some I snapped up off Amazon before prices got silly.

I used to have a lot more - had a complete set of the RE games, both Star Wars games, Killer 7, Eternal Darkness, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 1+2, Pikmin 1+2 etc but they all went as part of a big clearout I had about 5 years ago. I sold games that either I would never play (e.g. RE, Zelda) or had an update on Wii (Prime, Pikmin etc.)

I spent some time upgrading some games I had too. For example I sold any platinum editions I had and rebought the original release. I upgraded a few I had too - I'd have 2 copies and make 1 copy with the best case/manual/disc and sell what was left.

I couldn't do that now - just too expensive. My collection is smaller now but it's what I call curated. It's made up of games I'd actually play for the most part now and their condition is of a relatively high standard. Not mint but mostly very good.

I've done that with most of my collections now - Dreamcast, Saturn, PS1/2, N64, 360, SNES and MD. My collection went from over 800 titles to just under 500 and it has remained there with some buys and sales.

My recent project was upgrading my PAL N64 version to JP-NTSC by buying and selling. I did the same with Saturn...most games are now JP-NTSC but I keep a few of my favourites in PAL and have upgraded those to copies in better condition.  I've started compiling a small collection of Super Famicom games in very good condition and selling their PAL SNES equivalents.

My Wii collection is quite bloated though - it could do with a trim!!

A ole Midway game I remember enjoying back in the late 70's! Guided Missile!

Think I can remember that one too. There was a lot of those old timed shooting gallery type of games in those days.

I think the idea of the PS linkup was that a friend would bring his/her console with a 2nd copy of the game around. Still means you need two TVs though!




2 player linkup Tetris on Gameboy was a great idea. Only played it few times but it transformed Tetris into a great versus game.

Lost me within seconds of seeing it in 3D.

Have also have a second copy of MKDD and 1080 as my GCs have the network adaptors.

Ikaruga is the US version. The PAL version was a hack job. Namco Museum is US too. I can play those with the Freeloader disc.

I have the US version of F Zero GX as well as the PAL version since I can run the US version at 480p on my Wii using the Freeloader disc.  I just didn't have the heart to sell the PAL version.

My copy of the GBA player disc isn't pictured as it's currently sitting beside my GC.

Here's mine!

With you on F-Zero GX. It's an astounding game. Super Monkey Ball would be another favourite of mine and it's still best on Gamecube with its controller.

There's a link cable for Saturn and Dreamcast too. The DC one is very rare though.

I've linked 2 Gamecubes up but you need the broadband adaptors for that which are expensive now (I got them when they were cheap).

It's easy to check out. The emulator called Stella is quite simply superb. If you were able to get a set of paddle controllers that work with a PC and Stella then you could recreate the entire experience and not bother with the orginal hardware. It really is that good - you can even recreate fuzzy CRT images etc.