New Purchases

My funds are a little tight right now, but I was able to pick up a couple new games for really good prices.

First up is a peripheral-based game: Wii Fit Plus.  I got this brand new off eBay and paid about half of the game's original retail price.  It's the Balance Board bundle (since I didn't have one before).

I had played Wii Fit Plus a few times before but I never purchased it or the original Wii Fit because I was already exercising plenty on my own.  I didn't need it at the time.

I'm still exercising, but now I'm at the point where perhaps I should be supplementing my work outs with this game.  At the very least, I can enjoy all the mini games.  Those are a lot of fun.

I love different controllers and peripherals, so I'll be looking into getting some more Balance Board games.  Perhaps something like snowboarding would be fun.

I also picked up Super Street Fighter II for the SNES complete in box for a decent price.  I used to rent this game as a kid, as well as Street Fighter II Turbo, even though I owned the World Warrior.  Street Fighter II is so fun that you can own multiple versions of the game and still not get bored.  The box is in good condition, and the cartridge is mint.  It has all of the inserts as well.

I also decided to buy an official cleaning kit for my Wii U.  I've had my Wii U since launch day in 2012, but I've only cleaned it by blowing it out with an air compressor every once in a while.  I'd like to avoid the repairs I had to do on my Wii, so the cleaning kit should help avoid that.  It comes in a nice DVD case, just like the games, but ironically, the case is even nicer than the game cases because there are no holes in it (those stupid "eco-friendly" cases can go to hell.  The plastic is already recyclable.  There's no need to put holes in the game cases, Nintendo.).

I actually tried using my Wii cleaning kit on the Wii U (I figured it would work since the system is backwards compatible), but the system wouldn't even accept the cleaning disk.  It couldn't pull the disc into the disc slot, which was strange.  That's when I discovered I needed a new cleaning kit for the Wii U itself.

 

The Wii U cleaning is a bit different from the Wii's.  The Wii's cleaning kit has a handle on the disc that sticks out of the disc slot, and you use it to wiggle the cleaning disc left and right.  The Wii U cleaning disc doesn't have any handle.  You simply apply the cleaning solution and stick the disc into the system.  The system does the rest.  That's much simpler than the Wii's cleaning kit.

Who knows, maybe years from now this is will become a collectible item.  Since the Wii U hasn't sold all that great and it's really hard to replace the GamePad, I suspect the Wii U will become a very collectible system in the future.