Insanejawa

Does anyone out there remember the GC game Pac Man VS, I think I got it when I bought Pac Man world as a bonus disc?

It was a great little game that you needed the GBA with cable to play, where one person controlled Pac Man on the GBA with full maze on the GBA screen and the other players were the ghosts with limited view of only the surrounding area of the maze on the TV. Whichever ghost captured Pac Man was then given the GBA for their turn as the yellow pizza. I thing this would make a great Wii U game as a e-shop purchase. Perhaps even an online mode as well as local multiplayer.

So with the controller adapter, and the Wii channel how hard would it be to add a memory card adapter and use the Wii channel to play GC games? I know it's just a pipe dream, but I think that would also bump up sales. It should be capable, if the Wii could read the GC discs I would also assume the Wii U could since it can read Wii discs. The only tricky things I can think of are, is the Wii channel on the U a full emulation of the Wii or just the Wii game portion, and if it is not then they would have to make a GC channel then, and how to get your saved data from the memory cards to the Wii U memory, perhaps an SD Card/thumb drive to GC Card adaptor.

So I had not seen a single MK 8 commercial ever, but about enough Titanfall/WD commercials to fill a full days worth of watching. But a few days before MK 8 released I got a text from my wife telling me she just saw a MK 8 ad on the TV and that we must get that game. She is not a gamer unless you count Bejeweled or Candy Krush, but for her to get excited about a Wii U game is something new. Why o' Why doesn't Nintendo advertise more? It works.

I see horror stories about how if your Wii U bites the dust you can not recover your games, or it takes an act of congress to convince Nintendo to refund your credits so you can repurchase them from the eshop. Should I be sticking all my games on a USB drive instead and if so, in the case of a broken Wii U would I be able to hook the external up and sign in with my Nintendo ID and go about my merry way?

So something struck me the other day when using the Wii U, it could do point and click games great. Not sure how much of a market there is for the good old Graphic Adventure games of old like the Myst series or some of the SCUMM games from Lucas Arts but I would love to see them ported over or at least some new entries in that genre. Then again I am probably showing my age when I admit I still own Myst on CD! (a huge thing at that time btw). I know the newer Sam and Max games hit the Wii but never picked them up since I had them on PC so not sure how they did on the Wii but I would think that the Gamepad would lend itself better to that type of game then joystick or motion control of the Wii controller.