and just like that we are back this is the only we nintendo review show dedicated to having an almond snack countdown clock yes yeah it was glorious wasn't it? It was an inside joke. Anyway this is of course we suck at video games which we do. This is Big Show 34. My name's Mal with me as always. Craft Brew Sally. And that's right. We have a little bit of an interesting experiment that we've kicked off that you were going to be part of. Aren't you excited? But first let's talk about what happened this week. So we did end up going, I did procure a kind of newish in box Wii Fit board. It was, I thought it said new in box, but when I got it, it was used but very, I could tell, lightly used. But it said in box. It was in box. It was in nice condition. It was a newer one for the Wii Fit Plus, so it's on the nicer side. More on that later. But then we also did the dreaded deed. We went to a retro game store. Our favorite retro game store. Press Start in Menasha Yes The only reason I say that is because Well of course you walk in and you walk out Spending way more money than you wanted to But we did get a big Pile of Wii games, we got one Switch game I can't remember what it was I can't remember either It was like one of those collection It was a weird one-off collection one That I hadn't seen before So I'm a sucker for the Switch So Crafty Sally, tell us what some of the games We got this week from Press Start Games. So we got Attack of the Movies in 3D. In 3D. Now, we will have to get some 3D glasses. I know I have some, but where they are, I couldn't tell you. I'm sure Amazon sells them as well. Yeah. Then we have Beach Fun Summer Challenge. Wowzers. Because you know what? The Wii basically stands for minigame mania. Yes, it does. And I'm a sucker for said minigames. Me too. bring it on summer games beach fit head people beach fun yep that one yes next we have chrysler classic racing oh i bet yep uh and this one says new play control oh my god donkey kong jungle beat yeah well yeah donkey kong i was surprised i didn't have that one that was on the top 50 list I have a top 50 list that then expanded into also all the Nintendo first party games for the week. And I've been chiseling away that list. There's a couple heavy hitters that we haven't gotten yet that are a couple hundred dollars. I'm like, I don't think I'm doing that. I might end up towards the end, but I'm trying to chisel away at it normally. I'm down to, I think, only like 10 or 12 more that I need, you know. I did pretty good on that list, but lists are suggestive. But, you know, this is an all-inclusive. It doesn't have a lot of fighting games, and I like them. Anyway, it doesn't matter. So that one was on our list, and I was glad to grab that one up. What else you got? Now we have Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. That I was shocked we didn't have. I was, too. But then I realized, oh, I have all of those as the Lego ones. Right. Which I love Lego games. They're so just running around doing stuff. And there's no consequence. You don't die. I mean, you die, and you just kind of go back and whatever. Whatever. Yep. So then you also got a second Harry Potter. Yes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Wow. Now, did you look up how many there are for the Wii? How many Harry Potter games? No. It seems like something you would have done. I should have. Sorry. Sorry, folks. That's okay. So, all right, what else have we got? And we have MLB Power Pros 2008. This looks funny. Yes, it does. It does. And it's an MLB licensed game from Nintendo. And it just looks like one of those RBI baseball where it might not be the most accurate, but fun. Yeah. And I'm all about that. It looks like you're playing. It looks like me's are playing. Yeah. The me of the player is playing the game. Right. There's no body. There's no. There's body. The arm's not there. Like a me. Yeah. It's kind of funny. Yeah. Next we have. Sid Meier's Pirates. Yeah, Sid Meier's is like, he did a lot of stuff. Did he do, was it Prince of Persia? No. Well, he might have. It looks like it. Yeah, he did a lot of those civilization games and sim kind of stuff. World building sim stuff. I remember that on one of the systems, on one of the earlier Commodore systems. It was a weird thing. So I was like, I'll grab it. I don't know if it's going to be good or not, but I figured grab it up. Is that the last one? No. Oh, my God. No, there's more. Wow. Rock and roll adventures. That's just the worst. We'll let you know how bad it is later. Isn't it like a chicken that thinks it's Elvis or something like that? Or is it just Elvis? I can't remember. And it's Elvis. Elvis. E-L-V-I-Z. Not to be confused with Elvis. Right. With an S. yeah yeah okay yep so we'll let you know about that one too yeah and then the last one tamagotchi party on yeah that i was excited about that one yeah i might not be after i play it right i was i was like tamagotchi or they were a weird snapshot of a weird time in our country and that's not our country the world because obviously might have started in japan i think uh so yeah uh i think Joking Week. Of course it started in Japan. So, yeah, that was a big haul. We paid. We paid for it. That wasn't like we walked out going, gee, that sure was cheap. But you know we hadn gotten any for the collection for a while I know And I been looking and I look And we haven been to that place in a while No. To press start in Manassia. And they're moving. Yep. Like three doors down. Yeah. Not the band folks. They're moving three doors down. I almost wanted to ask them if they wanted to hire me on as, like, temporary help and I could just work for store credit. Oh, yeah. I could just help them move piles of games. You should ask him that. You would love that. Well, I am lazy and old, but I will do that. I would work for games. Yeah. And he'd be like, yeah, he's just going to get a bunch of those worthless Wii games. He'd probably say, I'll let you take as many out of this rack as you want. Just let me move. Yeah. So it was a great time. Yeah. It was cool. I left a lot there. For some reason, there was a ton of games on the Wii stacks this time that we could have picked up. And there was a lot less last time I was there. Now, they always have full shelves, but kind of the real common stuff. This time around, I think over the holidays, the guy said they started getting a lot in. So people are just digging these out and getting rid of them, and they're taking them. Good time. I could have spent about $100,000 there, like always. If you're in the area, hit them up. They are the best, I think. Very nice. Nice, good to deal with. They're not going to sell you crap. They really make sure everything works right, and they're knowledgeable. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah, they are. Every single person that works there. Yep. So enough about that. We're here to talk about the game that we're going to be reviewing this week. Now, a bit of an interesting game this week. We've kind of fell into this one. I've been on a diet since the... I'm sorry, folks. This is the dumbest thing ever. Starting the first. I diet and then I lose some weight. Then I fall off it and gain it back. I am the most classic yo-yo dieter there is. but I have been on a general downward trend. Like I was real big when I moved to Wisconsin, and I've gotten that down. But now I'm – so I re – I started – I've been doing pretty good with the diet, losing weight, but I haven't been doing anything. And that's bad. That means you're just losing muscle. Come home and plop down on the couch. So I have a treadmill, and I have a heavy bag, and I've been – I do that a little bit, but not enough. So I was like, you know what? But I know the cure to keep my ass off that couch. What's the cure, Craft Brew? That would be Wii Fit. Wii Fit. Yes. My God, it was a global phenomenon. So we dusted it off. That's why I went and got a second Wii Fit board because I assumed this one would break. This is our original one from our original purchase. They're very cheap to get, the Wii Fit boards. So if you can break one a week and you're not going to run out of ability to buy them, every shop has 20 of them sitting there that they'll probably be happy to take. So we are on a Wii Fit. I'm going to try this. I think I want to try it until May. Yes. And now we had some experience with the Wii Fit before. We have, yes. Everyone in the world owns it. Everyone had experience with Wii Fit. Yeah, if you own the Wii, you had a Wii Fit. You had the board. you like it was a really uh interesting unique thing but i forgot a lot about it you know so i will it was funny the day before like i had i had gotten it i checked to make sure it would work and i set it up and i just like we just set it up to make sure it would read it and everything like that but we didn't do anything i was sitting there in the shower going to work and i went oh crap like in my head i remembered how this wee fit board was gonna call me a fat butt and like you're oh you're so you're so heavy and oh you're so normally obese like it is ruthless it is and i was just washing my hair and i went oh man i forgot it's i remembered it immediately even though i hadn't started it yet and uh it did immediately i i totally forgot about the measuring measuring measuring measuring and then oh the it's now this is uh we're gonna probably give updates each show you know we're only four days in today when i started it'll be the fifth day not in a row but i'm gonna start trying to be every day yeah uh you can't it won't be every day you know but it'll i'm gonna try to do most days you know and yeah uh it was incredibly fun I was laughing I was in pain a lot yes there's some I have learned that I cannot do planks yeah and it's merciless don't worry yeah it is very Japanese at its core meaning it's not going to be gentle no when you screw up right it's like hello are you still there yes I'm dead now we now one of the things that's interesting well we'll start before we get too deep into this I also had to stick to this thing. Now, this came out. This is developed by Nintendo, the publisher's Nintendo. So this is straight up Nintendo only. It was released on 12-1-2007. So it was December 1st, 2007. I always like to set the mood. The top song was No One by Alicia Keys. I've never heard of her. You have. And the top movie was Enchanted from Walt Disney. Oh, yeah. So what, and then we, what, do we have an exchange student? We did. We had Sarah. Sarah. Who immediately showed us how out of shape we were in 2007. When we were black belts and we were, we thought we were fit, but we were not fit at all. So Sarah was a, is a ballerina, is, still is. Yes. Yeah. All these years later. But one of them is like sun salutation, a yoga pose. Yeah. And you have to like touch your toes. Well, the board is like three inches off the ground and she would just like bend over and touch the ground. Not her toes. Well beyond her toes. And we're just like, great. Yeah. See, now I was always, I think I was better at touching my hands flat to the floor than you were. This is many years ago. Like we we became black belts in 2005 Yeah And so we had been doing a lot of running and push and and lots of physical exertion And I also did a lot of flexibility stuff so I could kick better Yeah So I was pretty good at that That's all long gone. Oh, yeah. You know, my brain still thinks I can do it, but I cannot. Let's see. Now, what does the back of the box say this is? Let's see. Oh, my goodness. We fit. Let's see. create up to eight personal profiles and family with family and friends set goals track your progress and challenge each other to get fit step on the balance on the we board and put your balance strength and flexibility to the test with more than 40 fun activities check your check your bmi and we fit age every day to keep tabs on your health and work towards you fit you now that part there that's the fun part that is yes you'll be you'll be excited now the game now i'm gonna get back to it i know this is a little bit out of order we try to stick to a fairly strict script but this one was a little bit we've been having a lot of fun with it even you have to be able to laugh at yourself because oh yeah it is going to tell you you are morbidly obese even if you're not i mean we i am but i'm saying like you you might say oh i'm really fit and you're going to step on it and be like, ooh, you're overweight. That's because this is going by actual BMI ratings, not like what you tell yourself in your head. You're like, well, I'm a strong heavy. And you're like, you're not. It doesn't matter. But that's okay. A lot of it is about balance. So that's a big part of it is trying to maintain your balance, trying to – there is like the – what are the four things? It's yoga, it's strength, and what's the other one? It's the other two. Aerobic. Aerobic. And then balance games. Balance games, yeah. I feel like there's another one. No, I thought that was it. Let me see. I can't see my eyes. Aerobic, strength training. Yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balance games. That's it. Okay, all right. Yeah, those are them. Oh, the other one is favorites. Oh, right, right, right. Because it just shows you what you do the most. Yeah, which is the same for both of us. I watched a lot of the, I watched some reviews and I watched some people doing kind of what we're doing. And I think a lot of people now are missing the point. This isn't your, this isn't what you're going to do to like become a gym rat. No. This is just a fun way to add more movement into your life. and it does hit some of the main things that we would ignore. I wouldn't do yoga. Right. I do now. Yeah. I wouldn't do balance exercises, but I do now because they're very fun. Yes. So, and like step aerobics and like the hula hoops and all that kind of stuff, this kind of stuff is just a way of kind of doing more. Rather than, like I said, I would come home and plop down on the couch and start my nightly crap. And this is another thing that just keeps me moving a little bit more. Yeah. And I get to be grand champion on some things. Yes, you get to be grand champion. Instead of a pinball machine, I get to be grand champion on a Wii balance game. You are good at the hula hoops. I am. I'm good at the step thing. You are. It's fun. I will say I laugh a lot. Sometimes I'm disappointed, but that's good. You want to push yourself. You want to be, you know, try harder, and that's what you do. You try every time. Like, after this show, we're going to go up and, you know, go into our routine. I'm going to do probably 20 to 30 minutes of it. We don't do an hour. We don't do anything crazy. You know, just to, and I do a little bit on each one of them. Yeah. You know, and that's all. I did learn something, though. What's that? That I should never, ever ski. Ever. Not in real life. And some are hits, some are misses. Yeah. Now, in the aerobics, there's the running. Yeah. I don't like the running. I'm going to push myself to do it from time to time because it makes like we have a treadmill so that's where you run and this does let you enter that kind of thing like if I run for 25 minutes I can enter that into my Wii Fit. I haven't done that yet Oh I didn't realize that. And that will give you credits towards it. Oh. Now don't lie and don't cheat you know but it's one of those things where it does let you track other activities and add that in. I haven't done that yet, which I'm going to. And to be honest, I look forward to this. I do too. It's so silly and it's so, I don't know. It is a very unique, fun way of doing a little bit more. Getting your ass off the couch. A little bit more. So did you have any other game observations about it? Anything you want to talk about? It lets you choose between two trainers. I chose the lady. You chose the man. I don't think I like the man yeah the lady's better I remember didn't the fitness trainers weren't they added to the Smash Brothers universe I think so and I think you can even get the Amiibos which I have to find those if they did make them because they're hilarious it might be a surprise birthday present or something it's a lot and I loved we're going to try to also one thing I remember from before all of our exchange students were on the Wii all of our family and friends they're on our Wii so I want to transfer them all I think you can put 10 at a time on the Wii mode and then you go upstairs and we can transfer them in and then they're in the game with you, they're like throwing the hula hoops or they're running past you and waving and it makes it so fun because you throw, like when I play the hula hoop game, you're one of the ones that throw me, the hula hoops. Right, the extra so you get extra ones. And there's an added layer because the exchange students meant so much in our lives. Now, we're still in contact with most of them fairly regularly, but they're in Japan. Yeah. And, you know, they're not. Or in Laul. Laul So they not in our house in our lives every day So this I think when I see them I going to feel so much happiness and that might sound dumb to somebody to some people but you're nuts because John Youssi them, John Youssi the me they made and your brain and heart actually just goes back to when they were here with you and they were here when Sarah was kicking your ass at all the games the shooting game not Mario Kart she wouldn't play me on Mario Kart that was a wise decision She tried and was like, oh, no, I'm never playing you again. She doesn't like it. She didn't like losing. How about we do Link's crossbow? Yeah. And she would kill us. That's so funny. But it was, and that's what I mean. Like, my dad's in there. Yeah. My dad will be in there, which will be sad, but I'll be glad to see his knee again. You know, so there's a lot of really good positives. This is not a hardcore fitness thing. No, no, not at all. There's other games. there's active and there's and there's that who's that gal who's really mean oh and like jillian michaels jillian michaels so if you want this kind of really really stuff that'll push you it's out there yeah this was the first one this is the one that set the mold like you can have fun and do all this wacky stuff that's what the wii was made for yeah and then they did one on for the switch too Yeah, the Ring Fit. We have it. But I don't know. Maybe after I do this for a while. My goal is to unlock everything in the Wii Fit and then move to the Wii Fit Plus. We have them both. I do have to say, the Wii Fit. Fun fact, as of March 2022, it's the third best-selling console game. Not as a bundle. Not as a bundle-rooski. Bundle-rooski, bundle-rooski. But sold on its own. Bundle-rooski. it sold 22.67 million copies that's the Wii Fit do you know what the top two were no I didn't look it up oh so if you uh if you pay more than 14 cents for a Wii Fit uh game you're crazy because they're they're literally every single place they've been in every bundle bundle ruski I've ever bought has had at least one of them so you know it's uh but it's i was shocked and surprised at how that what this is doing like how fun this is and how i'm like looking forward to it at work i'll sit there and think about it and like i'll try and stretch so i'm better when i get home for my wee fit so i can get my age better you know i don't know it's just it's what this is what the Wii is supposed to do. It's what it did do. It made bowling and boxing and the one I don't like, the ski one, is the slalom one. Only because I suck at it. But I'm going to get better at it. I'm going to practice that one. And the ski jumps, there's so many interesting fun games that keep you moving and doing things. We're going to track our progress. I've got to get on the diet part. I'll do your I've been slacking because I started my new job, and everything's all wonky right now. Yeah, well, I've been real good with it, and I hope to stay on it. Because there's been periods when I stayed on it, on my diet, you know, and I really lost weight. And I stayed, and I felt better. So I'm going to, you know, I remember those times. I'm going to really try for it. Well, soon I'm going to be taking you on the Ice Age Trail so I can bash you with my shillelagh. Yeah, there you go. So if I stop being on this show, you know that's because my wife, Crafter Sally, murdered me with her chalets. I wouldn't murder you with it. Well, if you bash me in the head, I don't know what you'd be getting out of it. Well, you know. So what would you give this? What would your rating be for this? I would give this like a 9, 9.5. I'm at a 9 on it. It's not perfect, but it's a lot of fun. Now, what I always like to do is let's say what Metacritic has to say about it. Now, Metacritic gave it an 8.0. Very nice. But those aren't the ones we want. I want to read what does the users think. So this one has a lot of them. Most of them are positive. I'll say, on July 23, 2013, Jeff underscore reviews gave it a 10 out of 10. We fit mixes fun and exercise into one for a great time to spend losing calories. guaranteed worth your money as there are several mini games that are fun and enjoyable while you're losing weight along with it so very positive we would probably go more towards Jeff's reviews but then there's always some negative ones so let's see on October 5th 2017 Adidia 1101 Aditya Aditya1101 gave it a 4 out of 10 and says I'm probably not the right audience for this game anyway but this really didn't feel like it added much to the fitness experience it feels more like a cash grab than anything else a cash grab? so agree to disagree we tend to agree more with the very positive kind we are I think that's do you have anything else for the review of it or talk about it? No, I don't think so. We'll give updates each week. And that's going to do it for this show. We picked one last time. It was that ATV one. I swear we're going to do that one this time. Maybe not. Maybe. Maybe one of these Tamaguchi party, Tamagotchi party is going to or something. No, probably not. So, there you have it. If you have not tried Wii Fit, get yourself a board, get yourself a Wii Fit and give it a shot. you might find yourself laughing your way to fitness. Wow. Put that on the back of the box. Anything else? Nope. All right. That's going to do it for this week. Thanks for listening, everyone. This has been We Suck at Video Games. Please tell your friends if they're Wii fanatics to check us out. Give us a positive review. It really helps the analytics, and it'll make you feel better inside. Thanks, everyone. See you next time. That's it, man. Game over, man. It's game over!