Bear and Badgers console owning history (now with charts) - The Bear and Badger

retroking1981

Some proper underrated gems in your collections there @Vela & @davyK

The Tanks game in Wii Play is superb, if that was a stand alone Wiiware game it would rank as one of the very best DL titles of the generation for me. Its a shame it went largely unnoticed on a game most people owned because of the second Wiimote.

davyK

Paul the sparky wrote:

Don't know why you're sighing Davy, I didn't ask you to list them.

That sigh was pompous - sorry.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't recommend anyone to get the 100 I have....just that since that gen lasted so long, and i only had one console, I ended up getting far more than usually would. 40-50 recommended games would be good going for any platform.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Also, what's your definition of 3rd party Davy?Kororinpa always looked good, only played it briefly

Loose I guess - developed and published - I don't always pay attention to who does what so may have had got it wrong.

Kororinpa is lovely if a bit short - the sequel is massive - though the physics have been tweaked at the start to be more forgiving (you can unlock the original handling though).

retroking1981

Paul the sparky wrote:

Oh so I'm a Wii hater now. Jolly good.

That GIF wasn't meant as an attack on you - sorry if it come accross as such.

It was meant as more of a celebration of the Wii. Whilst not a classic console up there with the SNES/PSone it has some of the best games of the generation imo and it is misunderstood by many.

Moot_Geeza

Twii people are a lovely bunch too. Even sighs and GIFs are retracted.

Vela

I think the console was superficially dismissed by far too many self identified gamers, and not fully embraced either by the audience it courted.

What it did get was a fantastically diverse library for people who delved a little deeper, and had a vibrant B tier level of games that weren't really seen on the other systems after cod4 sucked all the oxygen out of the market.

And to reiterate, Wii Play Tanks is on par with Bomberman or Worms for multiplayer genius.

Moot_Geeza

I never owned Wii Play. I feel like I missed out now.

Vela

Should be millions of second hand copies available for a dollar. Just play through an hour to unlock Tanks. There's also a lightgun tribute to duck hunt as well.

Dark Soldier

Isn't Wii Play Tanks just the old Tanks game from the Commodore/Atari days with added graffix?

Vela

Dunno, never heard of that one. It has pretty spiffy pointer controls though, but I dunno if that differentiates it.

Dark Soldier

So yeah, slight maze feel, blow up tanks. Was MP too, loved it as a kid. Modern one has destructible scenery though.

davyK

Combat was ace - played the bouncing bullet variation in my office gaming league last year - went down very well.

Wii Play Tanks adds mines, rockets and AI tanks along with 2 control options (either wii remote sideways a la NES controller or with nunchuk for steering).

davyK

When I accuse folk of misunderstanding the Wii, I am railing against the perception of it being all wavy wavy mini game comps. There are a few excellent examples of that , and the rest are fodder to be ignored,

There's plenty more on offer aside from the OK array of multi platform releases and the 1st party stuff - and a lot of people don't realise that.

And Jesus that statement - "good graphics - for the Wii" - is so condescending.Graphics are either good or not. Don't think I have heard "good same room multi-player - for the 360".....

retroking1981

Combat was and still is great fun. Air-Sea Battle also on 2600 and Gunfighter on Magnavox Odyssey² are a couple others in a similar ilk.

Wii Tanks is a great little update of that old formula, top notch multiplayer fun.

Blue Swirl

davyK wrote:

I have over 100 disc borne titles for it - and if you add in the 90 I have for GC, then it's library dwarfs any other collection I own. In terms of sheer family entertainment it has no peer.

I'm not sure how many Wii and GC games I have left now, some definitely went in the Great Fire Sale of 2009 when the government decided I didn't qualify for benefits and no one would give me a job, so my income was 'what can I get for my stuff on eBay?'. I'm very much the same, though, I had more games for my Wii than I ever did for my 360, and more for the GC than anything else I have owned. (Bar maybe the GameGear, but that's because I was young and stupid and would buy anything if it were cheap enough.)

I've never understood the cry of "but it has no games!" when it comes to the last three Nintendo consoles. I'm still working my way through my Wii back log, and there's still a few GC games on the list of things to get back to at some point, time willing.

Blue Swirl

davyK wrote:

And Jesus that statement - "good graphics - for the Wii" - is so condescending.Graphics are either good or not. Don't think I have heard "good same room multi-player - for the 360".....

o/\o

I do hate that. I've even heard someone say "Why would you bother with the Wii U when the PS4 and Xbox One are so much more powerful?" By that logic, none of us should own consoles, we should all be running liquid nitrogen-cooled PC rigs, and we all should have burned our Mega Drives and SNESs when the Atari Jaguar was released.

Blue Swirl

retroking1981 wrote:

Wii rocks!

QFET. (Quoted for epic truth.) Definitely worth having on multiple pages.

retroking1981

Here's a chart containing every system that over 10 of us have owned.

For this I only included one console purchase per person. So if you owned a DS, DSlite, DSi and DSi XL that counts as 1 DS.

If anyone wants more charts just as Sega only or a certain generation let me know and I'll sort them out this weekend.

Moot_Geeza

Sega and Nintendo vs charts please.

Blue Swirl

I shouldn't find that as sexy as I do.

cindemon

Aye, nice work @Retro.

retroking1981

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Sega and Nintendo vs charts please.

Moot_Geeza

Less than ten of us owned Master Systems? Boo.

Moot_Geeza

You gave me a Game Gear and I gave it to Optimark. +3 to the bar.

retroking1981

Moot_Geeza wrote:

You gave me a Game Gear and I gave it to Optimark. +3 to the bar.

more like -2

n0face

I'd like a Venn diagram please.

Paul the sparky

Just realised I've not put mine up, even though I can remember typing the list out and putting my favourite game alongside each console. Forum must have ate my post.

Anyway, here it is again:

Master System
Megadrive
Gameboy
Playstation
N64
Playstation 2
Xbox
Xbox 360
DS Lite
Wii
Playstation 3

Don't worry about adding them to the chart or owt, just had to get that list out of me.

retroking1981

Paul the sparky wrote:

Don't worry about adding them to the chart or owt, just had to get that list out of me.

I'll add any updated list at some point. Maybe after every 2 or 3 page turns.

JonB

So more people here had a Gamecube than a PS2 or 360? That's a surprise.

I_R

They were £50 eventually.

stonechalice

Mine as follows:

NES
GB
SNES x3
Master System
Mega Drive
Commodore PLUS 4!!!
N64
PS1 x2
Dreamcast
PS2 x2
GBA x2
GameCube
Atari Lynx
Xbox
DS x 2
PSP
Wii x 2
360 x 4
PS3

Favourite? SNES. Followed by N64.

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