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Episode: 113
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Title: HPR0113: Nintendo Wii Review
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0113/hpr0113.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 11:36:15
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Hello and welcome to another episode of how to pop the video.
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I am your host Asplexi and I'm going to give a review of Nintendo Wii.
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It is indeed quite nifty.
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The game itself comes with a sports pack which contains tennis, baseball, golf, bowling
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and boxing.
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All these games make use of the sensor bar and are sensitive to the remote movement.
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You can play tennis and baseball and boxing while sitting down, but it's harder to play
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golf and bowling unless you're standing up because you need more space for the arm movement.
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For the most part you play the game like you played in real life, except for minor differences.
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Oh, and the Wii arm is so true.
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My right arm is usually very sore after I play tennis for too long.
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The control is through the wireless Wii remote and it's annexed that is called the non-chuck.
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The non-chuck is attached to the remote through a wire.
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There are wireless non-chucks that you can buy, but I don't see the need since the thing
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really allows plenty of room for the game's first pieces.
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In boxing you attach the non-chuck to the remote and practically forget there and just do regular
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boxing moves so you're just hitting in the air.
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The characters and Wii sports are basic.
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Some of them like arms or legs.
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For instance in bowling, only the player has legs.
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The bystanders in the game are floating with no arms or legs.
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And boxing, for instance, the gloves, the boxing gloves are like floating in the air.
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So when you hit him, the glove actually flies away.
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Another game I got which actually came with the secondary mode I bought is the Wii Play.
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The cool games in Wii Play are air hockey, bowling and the ball race game.
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It also contains ping pong, but it fails miserably.
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It doesn't even resemble real ping pong.
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So you're barely moving the racket around.
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Actually the Wii Sport tennis is more like real life ping pong.
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The other games are appropriate for different age groups.
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For instance, matching shape and direction.
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Like you have to match the me character in shape and direction with a prototype that's
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in a ball.
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That's more fun for younger users.
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And find the me or using is probably more fun for older users who don't want to put too
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much physical effort into it.
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It's the Wii Play is probably just an effort to have a family kind of game.
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I also bought Mortal Kombat for Wii.
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That's very cool to play with on the Wii, however that could also be because Mortal Kombat
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is awesome enough in and of itself.
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For the first week or so, Enigma and I played it thinking that it didn't make use of the
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sensor because all of the basic actions are keys that you press or like you move the
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joystick on the nunchuck.
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Eventually we RTFM and found out that all the special moves require movement like throwing
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fire or that kind of stuff require movement of the remote.
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So you press B which is the button on the back of the remote and you move up or left or
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right, etc.
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And it does the coolest things like it shoots fire.
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It does all the tricks that the characters have like for instance sub zero can freeze
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someone, etc.
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Mortal Kombat also has a motor combat sub game which is also motion sensitive but the
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motion sensitivity can be replaced by the nunchuck.
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The next thing about motor combat is that it contains a lot of visuals and that distinguishes
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it from the bull race which has the same basic premise.
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You move forward, you move the we motor round for going left and right.
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Maybe the bull race and we play has a bit more of a sensitivity thing because you tilt
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the thing forward and backwards for acceleration whereas you don't have that in motor combat.
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But anyway, the motor combat is cooler because you have the blood everywhere and you
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can smash the wall and get a fatality and you can fall into the water, etc.
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Motor combat is less family oriented than the bull race and we play.
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I also bought the B movie game.
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It was a bit of a disappointment.
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Most of the game is blocked when you start playing.
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You can't really explore through it to find something you like because you have to do
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some really lame stuff before you find out what the cool stuff is if there is any cool
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stuff since I didn't really bother.
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The story mode is a bit slow.
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You get to try all different jobs in the whole next company but there's a lot of stopping
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and loading so the whole thing stops for like three seconds and it's loading every now
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and then every time you change job or something like that you're loading for five seconds
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and it's like it gets boring eventually.
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I think the point of it is it loads while it tells you the story but if you already
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know the story it's kind of like dude you get to fly out of the hive but it's basically
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the same stuff.
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You drive your car around, you pick people up and drop them off, etc.
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You have all kinds of jobs.
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The CD also has a multiplayer option which is mostly blocked for new users except for
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like the drone gallery and the arcade.
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The drone gallery has three almost identical games where you're supposed to shoot at another
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species of flying insects and reload by vibrating your nunchuck which is basically okay but
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it's not that exciting.
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The other one is a pollination game like the one in the story mode, in the story mode when
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you get out of the hive you can pollinate and it's a 3D thing where you actually fly
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out and land on flowers etc.
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The one in the arcade is very different.
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It's like a 2D, Vermonessent of Atari game, all the Atari games, you're like involuntarily
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moving upwards and you have to avoid bad things like wasps, frogs, cacti etc.
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And you try to fly through good things like flowers.
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I can't remember the name of the Atari game but I used to play it all the time when I was
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like 6 and that was a long time ago.
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Yeah, anyway so that's basically my review of the Wii.
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I couldn't find Mario Kart anywhere, we've been looking everywhere but I still want to
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try it.
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The Wii is definitely worth having if you can't afford it.
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The sports back can be your excuse to say it's good for your health.
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Oh, another thing about the Wii, you can train in the Wii sports back.
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You can train and it opens up new levels and stuff and it's pretty cool.
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And you can have a Wii fitness testing that's also an option and it gives you an age.
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I actually tested 59 years old and I'm so not.
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But then again someone else who was also playing tested like 80s so yeah, the best age
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you can be is 20.
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And since it's not designed for kids, it doesn't really
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reflect very well since it probably will give older ages.
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The Wii fitness allows you to see your progress so you can test today and then you can test
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next week, etc.
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And then you can compare your progress or your decline maybe.
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Anyway, that's all for today, thank you very much for listening, bye bye.
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