The start of G-P's Sealed Wii Collection

So far I have put off buying a Wii as I am waiting for Nintendo to release the console in other colours, or perhaps a Limited Edition console. Until now there hasn't really been many games for it that I am really interested in, apart from the few first-party Nintendo titles such as Twilight Princess, Mario Strikers Charged, and Warioware as well as Resident Evil 4

A few weeks ago I bought my first Wii game! Mario Party 8! Unable to buy the game on it's original launch (It got recalled by Nintendo and pulled off shop shelves due to a small percentage having an error), I tried bidding on many on eBay but the prices kept rising and rising. I then bought the game as soon as it was rereleased on the 3rd August 2007

I'll chronicle my Wii collecting in this thread and update it every time I buy a new Wii game.




List of sealed Wii games:

• Mario Party 8 (UK PAL) ~ (Added 3rd August 2007)
  
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (UK PAL) ~ (Added 5th September 2007)
  
• Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (UK PAL) ~ (Added 13th October 2007)
  
• Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (UK PAL) ~ (Added xxx xxxxxxxx 2007)
  
• Metroid Prime III: Corruption (UK PAL) ~ (Added xxx xxxxxxxx 2007)
  
• Super Paper Mario (UK PAL) ~ (Added xxx xxxxxxxx 2007)
  
• Pokemon: Battle Revolution (UK PAL) ~ (Added xxx xxxxxxxx 2007)
  
• The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess (UK PAL) ~ (Added xxx xxxxxxxx 2007)
  
• Eledees (UK PAL) ~ (Added 3rd January 2008)
  
• Super Mario Galaxy (UK PAL) ~ (Added 5th January 2008)
  
• Donkey Kong Jet Race (UK PAL) ~ (Added 2nd February 2008)
  
• Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (UK PAL) ~ (Added 3rd April 2008)
  
• Mario Kart Wii (UK PAL) ~ (Added 26th April 2008)
  
• Super Smash Bros Brawl (UK PAL) ~ (Added 5th July 2008)
  
• NiGHTS: Journey Of Dreams (UK PAL) ~ (Added xxx xxxxxxxx 2008)
  
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion (UK PAL) ~ (Added xxx xxxxxxxx 2008)
  
• Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen And The Tower Of Mirrors (UK PAL) ~ (Added xxx xxxxxxxx 2008)
  
• Death Jr: Root Of Evil (UK PAL) ~ (Added xxx xxxxxxxx 2008)
  
• Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (UK PAL) ~ (Added 5th September 2008)
  
• The House Of The Dead II & III Return (UK PAL) ~ (Added 5th September 2008)
  
• Wii Music (UK PAL) ~ (Added 22nd November 2008)
  
• Samba De Amigo (UK PAL) ~ (Added 22nd November 2008)
  
  
• Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City (Box set with Wii Speak peripheral) (UK PAL) ~ (Added 14th December 2008)
  
• WSC '08: World Championship Snooker (Special Edition) (Box set with snooker cue peripheral) (UK PAL) ~ (Added 19th December 2008)
  
• Cooking Mama (UK PAL) ~ (Added 17th January 2009)
  

Mario Party 8 sealed is really the best start to collect sealed Wii games ! Has a good value on ebay...

Twilight Princess was originally going to be my first Wii purchase, but I happened to be in my local Tesco supermarket and saw Mario Party 8 for under £30, so I snapped it up. I think it was on a special offer or something for that week only, the same as Pokemon Diamond and Pearl both were when they were released

It compliments my Mario Party sub-collection too, meaning I have nine out of the ten Mario Party games released in the series (Only missing the first game now) ~ Unfortunately, only six of those nine titles are sealed, as the first three I bought I actually opened to play at the time (Mario Party 3 for N64; Mario Party 4 for GameCube; And Mario Party-e for GBA eReader)

Still, not too bad for a first purchase!

MP 8?^^

sry, but the game can i buy in the Shops, is not hard to find the game FS

I think it's his first game, just to open up the thread.....more will come soon

Sammelhammel wrote:I think it's his first game, just to open up the thread.....more will come soon

Yes. My first Wii game. More will follow, and I will add these to the list when I buy more

Picked up Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam today for just £15, whch I didn't think was too bad a price for a Wii game, even though it was a launch title

I now have a grand total of 9 Wii games, as of this week. There's not really a lot of games on the Wii I really want, having only about seven or eight more I wish to get which are released at the moment. There's a few I am looking forward to in the future, but nothing that reall stands out as an A+ title ~ I suspect that like the GameCube, the Wii will get all it's better games later on in its life (Smash Bros Brawl is one I am looking forward to!)

I hope we'll see a Kirby game for the Wii, so long as it's not yet another poor quality app which just has Kirby slapped on it to help it sell better (Eg, Kirby Air Ride, which was lame to say the least). A new Yoshi game would be nice (A 3D version of Yoshi's Island would be great!), and we still have an Animal Crossing, Pikmin, and Mario Kart game to look forward to, not to mention at least two Final Fantasy titles.

Third party titles seem very poor, with only a few innovative games of any interest to me (Eledees and Cooking Mama are just a couple that get my juices flowing)

Lately i've added Eledees; Pokemon: Battle Revolution; Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles; Super Mario Galaxy; And Super Paper Mario

I've not been keeping up with these lately. Here are four more sealed Wii games I have bought in the last few weeks:

NiGHTS: Journey Of Dreams
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen And The Tower Of Mirrors
Death Jr: Root Of Evil

Nights is very good with the nuncheck. Dun know why ppl bashed it so much...music is phenominal.

It would've been a much nicer package if the original and Xmas NiGHTS were included as well. I think the Wii is a perfect platform for re-introducing old Saturn titles to a new audience and generation. SEGA have already realised the potential with House Of The Dead and NiGHTS, not to mention a few Dreamcast specials such as Samba De Amigo - So it's only a matter of time before they give franchises such as Panzer Dragoon, Virtua Cop, and Clockwork Knight a rebirth

I did think about collecting Wii-Games sealed. They look so nice ^^ I have seen a Harvest Moon for ~12£, should I take it? Or is it worth near to nothing?

Great collection btw

Seems like a good price to me! And if past Harvest Moon games are anything to go by, it'll become very hard to get hold of at a later date

As with the GameCube, I tend to only aim for the first party Nintendo titles and Wii exclusives, or games that have a unique variation due to the Wii's control style. I have also added a few games that fit into various sub-collections too.

If the current prices of various GameCube games are anything to go by, then some of these titles will surely be in demand in the near future. Personally I think the ones to watch are the few RPG's that are available, such as Dragon Quest Swords and Fire Emblem, plus anything from Konami is always a safe bet

Today I added Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz and The House Of The Dead II & III Return

Tesco were having a promotion where all Sega Wii games are only £14

I added a picture! Hoorah!

Only Wii Fit and Link's Crossbow Training aren't sealed, but wanted to include them in the pic as well

Added sealed copies of Wii Music and Samba De Amigo today

Wii Music is interesting in the sense that A) I managed to find a copy of it sealed, with tear strip (As most stores didn't have it sealed at all); And B) It is one of the first games to feature the new style Nintendo tear strip design

Even though the UK and JP got screwed on the censorship, No More Heros is really fun.

Gemini-Phoenix wrote:Added sealed copies of Wii Music and Samba De Amigo today

Wii Music is interesting in the sense that A) I managed to find a copy of it sealed, with tear strip (As most stores didn't have it sealed at all); And B) It is one of the first games to feature the new style Nintendo tear strip design

And otherwise? How do you choose which games you buy? I mean you have a very huge collection...

The Wii games I buy are mainly first-party Nintendo titles and Wii exclusive's. I buy the games I want to play, or games that belong to a franchise I like. In respect to Wii games, a lot of them I have purely by default as they form part of a sub-collection (Ie, Zelda; Resident Evil; Pokemon etc), but which are also games from a franchise I like.

My collection is generally built on the 'Stick to what you know' philosophy, meaning you can't really go far wrong with sequels. There's a fair few Sega games included here too (NiGHTS, Samba De Amigo, Super Monkey Ball, House Of The Dead).

GP how many games are in your collection? I mean.. overall... Looking at how you buy stuff i think you're buying pretty much anything you can see.

Dark Sol wrote:Looking at how you buy stuff i think you're buying pretty much anything you can see.

Not really, and I don't think it's fair to say that either. There is a pattern and a structure if you look at the games I have. My favourite genre is RPG's, so there's a lot of RPG's in my collection. You'll also notice the distinct lack of "Chav-ware" (Ie, THQ / Activision / EA movie tie-in's and annual releases such as Need For Speed etc). And also the lack of sports games too, with a few exceptions (In the case of the Dreamcast, I was aiming for a complete set, hence why I own crappy sports games). A lot of my collection consists of A-list titles, and hardly any "Fillers". Almost every game has been bought because I wanted it for a reason, and not simply there to boost the collection

A lot of the other games I buy are usually exclusive to a specific system or sequels to games I enjoy (Like Pokemon, Final Fantasy, or Resident Evil etc). Where the Wii is concerned, I actually enjoy Nintendo games, and believe the best games suited for a Nintendo console are in fact first-party Nintendo games. I most certainly do not buy anything and everything for the sake of filling up a space on my shelves...

Dark Sol wrote:GP how many games are in your collection?

About 1,200 total, of which around 750 are sealed (At last count)

Bought Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City today, box set with Wii Speak peripheral. Nice little box set, and comes sealed with two clear circular stickers on the top, and one other on the bottom

I was browsing around today and came across WSC '08: World Championship Snooker (Special Edition) (Box set with snooker cue peripheral) rather cheaper than usual, so thought i'd snap that up for the collecction as it's quite a nice box set