Oh, hey! Welcome back to the show! You kinda caught me at a weird time now, I was just about to do some chores.
Yeah! Iron that shirt!
Oh! Oh! Careful, careful. You gotta stay on the shirt!
Got myself a special technique! I don't know if you guys are qualified to know it!
See, you gotta go slow like this.
Mmm, yeah, that's lookin' good!
"ALWAYS BE MOVING." That's the number one rule! You can't go too slow, otherwise you're gonna--
Uh-oh.
(B E E P)
OH NO, IT HAPPENED!!
I ALWAYS KNEW THAT WII WOULD BE THE DEATH OF ME!
IT WAS EITHER THAT OR SLOTHS!
OKAY OKAY OKAY, JUST THINK FAST! WHAT DO WE DO?!
Um... UM...
P A N I C ! ! ! ! AAAAAAAAAA--
[Elevator music]
That could've gone better.
[Space Hamster intro]
The Wii! You probably know about it because every one and their moms has one of these things!
[cheering]
[Wii sports anouncer:] You're out!
(whispering) if you don't know, it's-- it's the one with the mario on it.
And BOI, did it sell super well, and influenced the direction of video games as we know it!
I mean, one day, you're just sitting around playing video games with a regular controller, and...
Ha, haha. What's that?
Probably doesn't even waggle! The next day, people are at your door ringing your doorbell saying things like "Wii would like to play."
Oh, and we did play! We played sooooo hard!
It's arguably of the best and un-arguably one of the most successful consoles ever created.
So I hacked mine!
Nintendoo, please don't sue me and take down my video. I worked really hard, okay?
So today, we're gonna be talking about a bunch of different Wii homebrew games!
If you don't know what that is exactly, basically, they're free games or fan games that are released online, usually made by individuals
or a small group of people.
The only way that you can even access these games is via the Homebrew Channel on the Wii, which I can't really talk about because...
Sometimes these games can be as simple as tic-tac-toe...
the most boring game ever that almost always ends in a tie!
Or Yahtzee!
Heh heh, it says "YahtzWII."
DAS A GUD PUN.
Boy, do I love playing Yahtzee!
by myself
Oh my god, it's like I'm rolling the dice for real!
[Wii sports announcer:] NICE ON!
What about this game where you play a bunny?!
It's called Jump 'n Bump!
Ah, I see. I see.
What exactly am I doing?
I don't see any jumping! Or-or I don't see any bumping, that's for sure!
(BUZZ) Oh!
That's a noise. I'm really enjoying that!
(BUZZING)
So wait, am I supposed to move the flies somewhere...? If so, where?
They just they just get stuck on the edge of the screen. Oh my god
It's like the first game. I already want to die! What about this one called my little ball
Don't read into a too much. Jesus is watching
[dramatic music]
It's over already!?
No! I will not let my little ball defeat me. What kind of game is this anyway? A game for babies!
I must defeat it! So as far as I can tell this game is basically just
random. The goal of the game is to continually go up and get more score. Every time you get to the next screen though there's
A new randomized set of platforms. I mean that's cool I guess except for when this happens
That happens a lot.
I swear 99% of the time you're going to die because the next screen just doesn't have enough platforms at the bottom
And you can't react fast enough
Okay, easy easy
Careful... Just bounce like a normal ball. Be the ball. Okay?!
Be the ball!
You weren't the ball.
Hey, what if we play this RPG where you- you walk around and uh you fight enemies
But you can't you can't see them. Uh... and there's no story. But, I mean you don't need that
That's- you don't need story! You don't need any of that!
You like walking around, right!? The game is about mutated pineapples!
You can't-you can't say that and not put that on the screen! You gotta put that on the screen!
I mean it's called pineapple apocalypse RPG, man.
just
ok?
You know like when you have an idea for a video and you're like: "Hey,
That'll be- That'll be a good video to make. We should- I should make that video."
Oh, but then you-but then you get real sad like: "Oh no, now I gotta do that, you know."
"I gotta... I gotta play those games now..."
This game is called Harmony's Nightmare. As you can see here, there is a lady
in a bed.
That's a-that's a nyan cat shirt and she's dreaming about a fairy. Oh my god!
This game was made by the Reaper and his associate Titmouse.
Titmouse
This is gonna be the one guys, I'm telling ya!
*SCREE*
So this game is almost like a very
Simplistic flash game. You play as Harmony and collect all the lost music notes while avoiding all the new enemies that spawn
The more notes you get the harder it gets to avoid enemies until eventually you get hit
Uh, is she naked?
The only reason I asked is because if this character is supposed to be this this girl
In the bed the Reaper already said it was his cousin
Once you're on this second part if you lose and don't have enough music notes then this happens
OH MY GOD GET OUT OF THERE, HARMONY!
Well, she's dead. Time to move on.
There's also a ton of platforming games out there. Some of them are super weird - like giddy three. Where's giddy one and two? Who knows?
Giddy 3! The third one!
So in this game you play as a
...marshmallow with finger guns and a fedora
this is
The greatest idea!
Just look at his fingers!
There never not that shape! Who's this guy think he is? He's got to be the
Cockiest guy on the block always finger gunning like that!
Either that or he's constantly pointing at the cause of all his pain and suffering.
Every time you jump he kinda flings himself forward and actually does a flip in the air. It's actually kind of disorientating
Oh, it's kind of like one of those weird adventure hybrid platforming games.
Kind of like pacman adventures or that treasure master NES game. You have to go around and gather different
Objects to solve different puzzles to get more objects to solve more puzzles
This game is actually kind of hard too; you can only take a few hits before you lose a life
But luckily, when you do, you just kind of start right back where you died and keep going?
I'm kind of just on this farm gathering items like this tub of lard. You can interact with things
But I'm pretty sure I don't have the correct items to interact with most of the stuff here
Eventually, I go underwater and find this barrel of beer would you give to this big slug
Marvellous! I didn't know that slugs liked a beer. Then you go into this garden Shack and it turns out to be a
Industrial factory?
Okay?
This place can be pretty difficult too - there's a lot of enemies and traps waiting to take you down a peg or two eventually
You find a switch and right this toxic gas up to the surface and now I'm in the city
Is that is that mr. T? "Hey sucka! Stay out of my junkyard."
Mr. T, you still want me to play World of Warcraft?
I'm Mr. T, and this is my night elf mohawk!
Maybe Giddy just has to find the mohawk grenade to get past this guy, you ever think of that?
This area is so weird, like I'm dodging piles of crap on the ground. And then ninjas jump out of the bushes,
Show off a little bit and then give up
So where do I go? I can't do anything.
Mr. T over here is just blocking my way and on the other end of the level is some construction worker that also won't let me pass!
None of the items I have work in this area either, and I can't go back?
I guess I basically
softlocked the game when the developers forgot to program a way to get back to the earlier level because I can't go back and I
Can't move forward. I'm perpetually stuck as Giddy 3 finger gunning for all eternity
Wait a second according to this Wikipedia article the original giddy was just a parody of another game called dizzy
It's about an egg and that goes on all these adventures oh
He's an egg mm-hmm
Checks out
Wait so what you're saying is this game is the second sequel to another game
That's a parody of another game about an egg and that someone spent time to port that DOS game to the Wii?
Why?
I've been swindled, bamboozled into talking about a game that's not even for the Wii! don't even talk to me right now
I'll fingergun the next person who talks!
As it turns out, this is a pretty common trend for homebrew games people who port old games to new systems
There's classic games floating around out there like Rick dangerous or Commander Keen. There's even this really obscure series called sqrxz
It's kind of like the I wanna be the guy of the olden days
The original sqrxz was released back in 1996 for DOS and Windows 9x
it's an incredibly short, but really difficult platforming game where YOU DIE
A Lot! The original version of the game stars this weird
Unidentifiable creature. What the heck is this thing? Comment down below, win a prize!
Disclaimer: there is no prize. There was a remake of the game though, and now the guy looks like this some purple anthropomorphic bunny
Who wears boxing gloves!
There's also four of these games on the Wii and each one is difficult in its own right, but the funny thing is the story.
Yes, the story. which includes your girlfriend getting stolen by some tribal statue with grabby hands and in the fourth game you
Go broke
You go broke, and you need money, so the adventure's on, baby! My bunny wife is pregnant!
I gotta get money somehow so i'm a takeoff, Okay? Well yeah, I mean when you when you think about it. I mean like yeah
Sometimes that's just like what a boxing bunny needs to do
This isn't even the only game series that had a comeback from the DOS era in fact
There's a bunch of fan game sequels out there. The most prominent one being this game here called Giana's return
it's kind of giving me those old Barbie game vibes.
On a warm night Giana lies in bed dreaming a strange dream
In front of her lies a fantastic land once upon a time she was trapped there
She was able to return home using the power of the magical Ruby now something is pulling her back
Someone is crying: "The ruby!"
The voice sounds familiar, oh no, could it be Maria, her sister?
Gianna wakes up next to a statue of herself, that's odd. That's weird
Why?
What this this just seems like a Mario game you walk to the right you jump around to get power-ups though
I mean this time you're you're a pretty lady. You're not you're not a plumber
I mean this powerup is basically a mushroom, and then you get another powerup that lets you shoot fireballs
Am I missing something here? actually not really because the original Gianna sisters was essentially a mario clone
Nintendo at the time never really put games on anything but their own consoles, so the creators of Gianna were just filling a void
Eventually the game series would even make a comeback to the DS, of all places. From a mario clone to an actual nintendo console
That's actually kind of cool
There was even another sequel to Gianna sisters made in the early 2010's for Steam
But this Wii homebrew game is actually a fan-made sequel to the first game
It's just weird, Okay? The game itself is actually not that bad
It controls pretty well and even has bosses at the end of worlds, and you know what that means, more cutscenes, baby!
Oh, oh geez she looks distraught. "in a nearby tree
She notices something stuck on a branch." Oh me, too. I also find clues and notes attached to tree branches all the time
Oh, what's this?
[See you again]
Anyways now I'm in the snow world! its pretty cool
This is what I'm talking about. That's the end of the stage
Oh Boy we got another boss ah "at last you have come"
"Your way will end here", "I don't think so" "let's see!"
What my god, this boss is literally like the easiest thing ever you just continually bounce on his head
and he just walks back and forth like an idiot
"Exhausted from the fight with the huge ice bear, Giana sits down to rest." Yeah, Giana, Maybe you should put on some thermals.
"Close to where the defeated Zomba lies she finds a mysterious cave entrance"
"Could this be the way to get through the mountains?"
"Giana crawls into the dark hole." Yeah, Giana. I think I'm think I'm done
Okay, Giana is great and all, but where are all the good Wii games that were built from the ground up to use the Wiimote?
Ironically enough there isn't a whole lot out there most of the games are just personal
Projects that are pretty hit or miss with a handful of standouts
One of the games that stood out the most was this one called project GMC!
Maybe not this one actually what I meant to say was this one here called helium boy
It's a pretty short game that has you flying around with balloons avoiding enemies and collecting stars
You have to stop and frantically blow up your balloons, but the screen keeps moving regardless of what you're doing! Also ninjas!
They're way worse than those giddy ones to, they actually one-hit chop your balloons right off you oh, no, I'm down to one balloon
I did it. There's a handful of other games that also use the Wiimote like this shooting gallery game
I mean by how much more generic could you get with a Wii game than a shooting gallery?
[Scream]
There's a lot of games out there that I played that aren't really worth talking about. There are however some games out there that are
definitely worth mentioning
Ironically enough they're both games that use the Wiimote.
This game here is called starplot
Which has you navigating small planets that have a gravitational pull to solve puzzles
Another really solid game was this portal fan game called still alive
It's really true to its original game mechanics, but instead of being in a 3d space you're in a 2d room
Uh-oh, I'm stuck.
Um...Okay, I just gotta shoot over there.
Ahh!
One of the best in one of the most downloaded games is actually this one here called Super Mario war
Guys we gotta talk things got real serious in the Mushroom Kingdom
It's another one of those games that's not just for the Wii, but it was ported to a bunch of different consoles
So you might have a different version than this one, but this game is actually pretty good
it's jam-packed with a ton of levels and characters that you can play as and it kind of has that duck game feel if you've
Ever played that
everyone starts on a singular screen and has to jump on each other
there's also a ton of different modes that you can play one of my favorites is actually this one where you get put into a
Jail cell if you die, and the only way to break out is to kill another player or find the key
until then you're stuck, buddy.
Classic mode is probably the most straightforward though. You have a set amount of lives and once you run out
It's game over you can also go through this semi
Campaign mode where you can go through an entire world and everyone takes turns picking levels
It's actually really cool
And there's a ton of different worlds
When you're playing in matches occasionally power-ups and things like that will spawn to give you an edge for a second
But other than that you're just kind of jumping around and trying to stomp people while avoiding others doing the same to you
And if you're the type of person to mod your systems, then I definitely recommend you pick this game up
[Police sirens]
This is the Nintendo police. Come out with your hands up.
Oh crap, which one of you *** f***ng called the police?!
Come out now, we just wanna talk. We know you modded your Wii
We know you did that.
You're a bad boy. You know that?
Looks like I'm gonna have to take care of this myself
Next time on Hammy Ball Z
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