The Wii is one of the most successful games consoles of all time with over 100 million consoles sold - and counting. As ever, commercial triumph goes hand-in-hand with loads of software, and the Wii has been blessed with 1260 games to date, not all of them good. You might assume that collecting all of these games would be a foolish task, but for seasoned "completionist" Kacy "Da Game Nerd", it was merely another challenge.
Even though he readily admits that a third of the Wii's library is taken up with shovelware, Kacy is keen to point out what any self-respecting Nintendo fan already knows - despite the Wii's casual legacy, it has more than its fair share of must-have releases.
Kacy has them all and much more besides, and says that the only limit he set himself was that he would only collect games that had been officially released in America. He says that now is the ideal time to collect for the format, as people are offloading Wii software at incredibly low prices - the cost average for this complete collection was less than $4 a game, according to Kacy.
Give the video interview with Metal Jesus Rocks a watch and let us know if it has inspired you to start your own Wii collection by leaving a comment below.
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Hay, Metal Jesus on Nintendo Life! I'm OK with [url=http://shiryugames.odrakir.com/WII.htm]my current Wii collection[/wii] and would wish there were so many games (and variety) to buy for the Wii U as there were for the Wii.
Oh to be wealthy. I would love to have that much shelf space
Wow, I have 115 and thought I was doing good. Really hard to believe it has that many.
Damn.....impressive!
Great to see Metal Jesus on NL, as Shiryu mentioned. Such a cool, down to earth kinda guy.
I'm the opposite. I sold the games I was not playing.
The wall of Wii! (that just sounds wrong...)
I do find it funny that people say "Wii has lots of shovelware", when consoles like the PlayStation 1 suffered from the same problem. There is a tone of shovelware games on the PlayStation 1. Just go and see the amount of Barbie games that plagued that system. Just don't get me started on Bubsy...
The point is, the Wii has around 150 good games, and that is pretty amazing. That includes ones that used the Wii controller right, like Metroid Prime, Super Mario Galaxy 1+ 2, Battalion Wars, No More Heroes 2 etc.
I'm not convinced he got all those games for $4. Fire Emblem on the Wii is quite an expensive game now, and even shops like GameStop / Game won't sell it for cheap.
Now he just needs to add Monster High: New Ghoul in School and he's all set. Although at least Little Orbit actually make physical boxes.
A third? Haha generous assessment. Still cool though
Wii as all of this games(and even more on the Wii Shop) but most people bought it only to play Wii Sports...
Lol both these guys. Great youtubers
That's not every game then.
Nowadays it seems that collecting is more showing off what you have, than playing games you want.
Oh what a waste of time and money. I love the wii but it has a real low strike rate for quality. I'm not sure there are a thousand good games across all the consoles ever.
Big beach sports ranks as the king of shovel ware for me
this guy has 1,251 more wii games than nintendo's own eshop. actually, lemme tweet that to them...
Wow, nice collection! I envy him a bit, I could never afford that. But what he says is true, apart from a few very expensive titles, you can get many Wii games for about 4€ right now. I just recently bought Tournament of Legends and Batman: Brave and the Bold for that price.
@RadioShadow That concurs with my observations, there are about 150 really good games for Wii. Although when I watch this video, there might be several hidden gems that we don't know of.
@MadAussieBloke What makes you say that? Anyway, I disagree. I think it's just as viable as being a collector for SNES or N64.
@RadioShadow
What's the deal with Bubsy? There was one Bubsy game on the PS1, it killed the franchise, duh end.
Anyway, I was discussing this article with a friend of mine before commenting and he pointed out something - does someone so metal also have the Imagine games? I can imagine (sorry) him buying the games and, unless he did so online, the whole interaction between him and the store clerk must be pretty darn awkward.
That is an awful lot of waggle right there.
Wii has a great library. There are plenty of great, underrated games that can found for just a few bucks plus a handful of high profile releases that have slowly crept up in price.
My collection sits at 189 retail games (actually closer to 200 if you include my kid's games) and it covers all this high points that really appealed to me. I'm not interested in collecting everything, but pretty cool to see that this guy managed to do it!
Wait, Metal Jesus was the one who interviewed the collectionist, sorry I got things mixed up.
I thought I had a decent collection(70 games, possibly more) but this ridiculous. Haven't watched the video but I'd imagine there's a lot of thrash and Japanese only games. All of mine are all top quality games.
Only $4 a game? What a great way to spend $5000...
I've got 91 for my Wii, and there's probably about 40-50 more of interest out there. I'm not really one for collecting games I have no interest in, so I doubt if I'll ever have a complete collection for a console.
I've actually got more Original Xbox games, both from exclusives and the better versions of multi-platform titles from the 6th gen.
How many of those are Just Dance, a dozen or more?
So what's the US Wii U game count, maybe half that? Wii got A LOT of shovelware, but for an SD system in an HD world it also seemed to get more multriplats than Wii U, mainly in the FPS and sports genres.
What a coincidence! I have like 120 Wii games, among them all the games (5) he singled out. Marble Mania was one of my first games, and i got it used for like 10 bucks.
I have all Nintendo released games except Sport Mix and Excite Bots (had it but sold it, since my son wouldn't play it).
@Sligeach He said that just NSTC games.
Collecting every Wii requires all PAL and other regions exclusives too. You can't have an article title saying someone has collected every Wii game, then mention at the bottom he only collected all US releases.
Well it's up to him if he wants to collect Wii games but not only is it a waste of money, it's a waste of space too. Surely he's missed a few games there.
I love Metal Jesus! I'm so happy you are giving him a shout out. He puts up an awesome video every Friday and I always look forward to it. Love his hidden gems stuff.
"Metal Jesus and I'm back again with my good friend Reggie, how's it going buddy"
"Metal Jesus and I'm back again with my man Drunken Master Paul, what's going on?"
"Metal Jesus and I'm back again with a good friend of mine, Kinsey, say hi!"
I love Metal Jesus!
every system has shovel ware, the wii has some really nice gems as well. My collection is around 80 or so. I have a few more on my list but I'm almost done collecting wii games.
A full Wii set does look nice but it does beg the question of why do it at all? It seems like it's just something to spend money on and not much else. It's one thing if you plan on playing every game on the system or are really passionate about a particular system (I for one am going for a full N64 set) but Wii has a TON of crapware. Saying only 1/3 of Wii's library is shovelware is probably being very generous. Im inclined to say the Wii's library is closer to 2/3 shovelware. It's also the ONLY Nintendo system I cannot come up with 100 good games I would want to own. The Wii library, to me, is extremely poor, but does have a few very good games.
@rjejr At least according to Wikipedia, there are 473 retail titles and 201 eShop titles. I believe that is not counting the Virtual Console, but it does include games announced but not released (including those with no release date in sight). So I would guess probably about a third of games on the Wii U.
I am amused by everyone saying that 100-150 good games is a poor library. Perhaps it is just my age speaking as I remember that you were doing great if you managed 10 games for a system total (good and bad) in your collection and managed to play another 20-30 via trades/loans from friends and family. Even at my most aggressive, I only managed 40-50 for any one system and that was mostly due to the Greatest Hits line that reduced the price to $19.99.
I don't really see a point in doing this, especially when a good chunk of these games are probably terrible.
I like it.
Congratulations. Over half of your collection is shovelware.
I think my son must have seen this because he told me that he found out how many Wii games there were. That means at around 500 that I am not even halfway there.
@Darknyht Thanks for doing the leg work. Shouldn't really count the eShop titles b/c Wii had Wiiware - though not that many, maybe 80 or so, b/c of that 40MB limit, it was mostly VC back then.
I agree w/ your 10 assessment. We own a lot more than that now, but my sons each have different tastes and we just keep all of the games together, mine and theirs. My wife has a couple. Though I've also traded a lot in.
I'm picking up cheap Wii games when I find them; usually at around 2 to 4 euro each. At that sort of price level, i don't really mind the inevitable shovelware. I've also got an almost complete N64 collection and a lot of NES and SNES games and people tend to forget there's a lot of really terrible software for those systems as well.
That's impressive! So he has all those gems like Ninjabread Man, Yamaha Supercross, SPRay and Truth or Lies!
Would be more impressive is someone had all the DS games. IIRC, its 3 times bigger than the US library :>
I've been buying up old Wii games lately as well and for dirt cheap as well. Anyone in Toronto Canada? There's a place selling them for dirt cheap.
Collecting every Wii game is an immense waste of time and money! There's tons of shovelware that I wouldn't touch with a 20 foot long pole. But hey, to each his own.
I have 190 Wii games (on disc) and there's about 10 I would love to add to have it complete with all good quality games (sorely missing A Boy and his Blob). There's another bunch of about 20 titles people always come up with, like the Boom Blox games that I should look into some day. And then there's about 20 other fantastic games like Excite Bots and Arc Rise Fantasia that never released here in Europe.
Even though this guy has an amazing complete Wii collection, what is it without Another Code R or Project Zero 2 Wii Edition? At least Europe got these, and a few more.
Really impressive, better then the guy buying all the ps4 games The Wii has some of the best games on it!
I love the Metal Jesus videos.
@RadioShadow
To be fair it says an average of £4 so some will have cost less, some a lot more
It's impressive and that, but no matter what machine you collect for you have to band over actual money for really bad games. While the Wii has some incredible games on it it also has an awful lot of dross that I couldn't bring myself to spend money on. Same reason I could never collect for the PS1, PS2 or DS for example.
1000 of 'em shovel ware (I've only glanced at the previous comments - surely someone has already been there!)
I love Metal Jesus's videos and I loved this video when it showed up in my subscriptions!
I have to say, even though the Wii is my least favorite Nintendo system, it is my favorite system to collect for. Kacy is right - this is the time to buy. The games are super cheap for the most part (I have picked up some of my games for as cheap as fifty cents) and there are more quality titles than you realize. That's why I like when Metal Jesus does his hidden gems videos - he has three, I believe, for the Wii. When I am out and about and I find a quality Wii game cheap that nobody has heard about, it's the greatest feeling. That said I only have about 60 titles so far on disc and I would never go for the full collection. I definitely avoid shovelware titles. And there's a lot of that on the Wii, just not as much as you think.
Well at least he has little kings story.
@RadioShadow Hey I got my first copy of Fire Emblem for the Wii at a garage sale so it was very cheap. The cost average of the Wii set per game is actually less than $4 each. I can understand your skepticism, but if you've seen any of my pick up videos on YouTube, you'd understand how I was able to get to that number. I focus on thriftiness when I collect. Though I did have to dish out on American Mensa Academy because there was no way I'd find that in the wild. So I had to buy that online.
I have 908 Wii retail games so I guess I'm off by 352 lol but I wouldn't bother chasing down the Latin American games. Also being I've turned my attention to my Wii u,ps4 and xone collections I probably won't be getting many more Wii games down the road! Oh well! And people I'm very far from being rich like others assume that you need to be. No You don't have to be rich at all. You just gotta pounce on the sales and price drops when they happen lol!
And pray that your wife doesn't kick you outta the house!😜
HUR DURR SHOVALWARZ RITE GUYZ!!11!1?
Yeah. Everything single time someone spouts off about how lousy the Wii's library supposedly was, I tell them about all the good games you can actually find - and surprise, surprise - they had no idea the majority of them existed.
Never mind the PSOne and PS2 both had their fair share of crap games, and that 'teh filthee cazualz' bought the systems for their multimedia capabilities. Nah, can't have facts get in the way of a good old-fashioned Nintendo bashing - even when the thing being bashed is a bloody decade old now.
Rant aside, the Wii was a great machine, with some of the best games of last gen. Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 were my absolute favourites, and I also loved Twilight Princess & Skyward Sword, Xenoblade Chronicles, Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, No More Heroes 1 & 2, Metroid Prime Trilogy, The Last Story, Pandora's Tower, Kirby Epic Yarn, DK Country Returns, Sonic Colours, Punch Out!!, and - crazily enough - the Call of Duty games (which were actually rather good). Lesser-known gems were Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, A Shadow's Tale, Rogue Trooper, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Wario Land: Shake It, Rune Factory Frontier and Little King's Story. Oh, and Madworld. And House of the Dead: Overkill. And Bully. And Batman: Brave and the Bold. And A Boy and His Blob. And Other M. Yes, I liked it.
@Darknyht not sure what you were looking at on wiki but the Wii definitely had over 1100 retail titles in its library. Not even counting wiiware/virtual console titles.
@Kage_88 agreed- and you're missing quite a few there like resident evil 4, ghost squad,house of the dead 2&3 returns, far cry vengeance, metal slug anthology, trauma center second opinion & new blood, super monkey ball, the godfather, kororinpa marble mania, resident evil umbrella & dark side chronicles, data east classics, Zack & Wiki, pinball hall of fame, Mario kart Wii, geometry wars, MLB power pros, Namco museum megamix, target terror, tomb raider anniversary, scarface- the world is yours, Luxor, SNK arcade classics, de blob, Mario super sluggers, the king of fighters collection, animal crossing city folk, lost in blue , one chanbara bikini zombie slayers, klonoa, the conduit 1&2, resident evil archives 0&1, deadly creatures, muramasa the demon blade, dead space extraction, endless ocean blue world, shiren the wanderer, no more heroes 1&2, marvel ultimate alliance 1&2, monster hunter tri, sonic & Sega all stars racing, gunblade NY & L.A. machine guns pack, sin and punishment star successor, dragons lair trilogy, goldeneye 007, super Mario all stars, need for speed hot pursuit 2, NBA jam, Harry Potter series, rayman origins, virtua tennis 4, just to add a few lol!!
I have about 90 of the best retail wii games in my library. The rest of the 1170 games released are garbage and not worth the shelf space. There was a lot of crap released for the system. But when there is up to 100 fantastic games for a system I think it had a good run.
@Yorumi
Yeah that's the way forward. I tried it with the GameCube but hit a wall as soon as I realised I'd have to fork out for lots of dreadful licensed games. Spending £40 on The Thousand Year Door was actually easier than spending £1 on Universal Studios.
Fair play to those who can do it though, my OCD approves
Anyone else notice all 7 Wii U console bundles on the top of that shelf? I saw a white console release, NSMBU, SM3DW, Splatoon, Mario Marker, MK8 and perhaps a Nintendo Land bundle. I wish I had of bought that MK8 bundle with the wheel and remote. That's a great looking box.
The Wii has a TON of great games. It's a shame they are all 480p. At least it is starting to show it's own style now, something that takes a while to fully realize. That helps, but right now it's in that middle ground of not really being old and not really being new.
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