Oddity Archive: Episode 173.4: Archive Thrifting #7: Wii, Wii, All The Way Home

[@iamlem2542]

“Leisure Suit Larry for kids” is a pretty interesting way to describe Super Paper Mario, but the Wii was a great find nonetheless.

[@OddityArchive]

Well, it is a tedious "meet-a-zillion-people-and-ask-a-zillion-questions" RPG, much like LSL. :D

[@ladylilith6495]

@@OddityArchive I know this is a few months late, but try the Wii's New Super Mario Bros. if you're looking for a 'proper' Mario title, as a non-gamer would call it... I think. That's an actual 2D platformer and the first for a console since Super Mario World, during the Super Nintendo's launch. Just... don't touch the multiplayer mode. You will lose friends; the levels were clearly designed for the one player and you'll be bouncing off eachother's heads like a pair of comedians talking about Baseball.

[@Stephie2007]

"I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume that the original owner is no longer with us." 🤣 Rest in peace original owner of that Relaxation cassette tape

[@JillyMaysHere]

I used to work at a Savers (or Value Village as it's called here in the PNW) and I've never seen my store do baggies of loose CDs. I worked in production and we were always obligated to outright dispose of any loose discs if we couldn't find its case.

[@plushifoxed]

Nice, the Wii is a great console to play around with! No innuendo intended. The first two Paper Mario games (for Nintendo 64 and GameCube) are much better than Super Paper Mario, and you can play GameCube discs on the Wii with no problems (though you'll need a GameCube controller for it; no backwards compatibility with the controllers, natch.) If you get around to setting up the console for homebrew, you can run a lot of different types of games on it with emulation. It makes a great all in one retro gaming system, even to this day.

[@DukeNukem2417]

8:21 = Huh, Desert Moon by Dennis DeYoung. A very nice track...on a completely random compilation tape.

[@OfficialDJUnikittyYT]

16:16 I remember i had a Wii! Happy 4th of july and Canada Day, Ben! Can't wait until Oddity Archive Season 8!

[@damianmclaughlin2026]

Love these episodes.

[@Feelthefelt]

"Leisure Suit Larry For Kids" is the best description of the Paper Mario franchise ever. Also, lay off John Mayer. Room For Squares is a pretty good album.

[@danthemanwiththegarbagecan]

you should certainly look into installing homebrew on that wii ben. you can get a lot more out of it than a stock console provides.

[@yesticles]

Hell of a score on that RCA camcorder! Even if you can't record directly to tape on it, you can still capture the output either to a VCR to keep with the VHS aesthetic, or even record directly to a capture card and skip using tape altogether. I'd be really happy if I came across that in a thrift store around here! This video inspired me to go take a look at the Salvation Army store < 1.5 miles from my house in a little while on my trip home from visiting a friend in the hospital, it's right by the bus stop I'll be getting off at anyway, might as well check it out for the first time in a year or so. If there's anything worth a damn, I'll edit this comment or just leave a reply to it, though I don't really expect much from this store at all, they almost NEVER have anything of interest outside of the time I found a bunch of Star Wars EU books there at 5 for a dollar. Wish me luck!

[@VSigma725]

13:46 funny seeing B101 on the back of some random DVD, especially that far west of Philly!

[@keez2010]

You got a Wii just in time for Just Dance 2020's release.

[@daveporter0217]

Hopefully those Wonder Years DVDs have the original music.

[@MitchellHang]

I assume from the title there will be some Nintendo-related stuff in there. Edit: Yup, there was.

[@aiberlane3390]

Wow, not only one season of The Wonder Years on DVD, but two?! Maybe I need to branch out from Goodwill because almost all I find there are VHS tapes, and tapes everyone has like Aladdin and Mrs. Doubtfire.

[@soonerterp]

I wish the thrift stores in my neck of the woods were as cool as the ones in yours. OTOH, I was in a Goodwill last week and came across a Kenwood standalone CD player. Should have grabbed it but it was at the bottom of the stack under a bunch of other crap (I always go to the electronics and stereo stuff first in any thrift shop).

[@luisreyes1963]

Congratulations on your purchase of a Nintendo Wii complete with games. Have fun. 😀

[@rEdf196]

Kiss, 8-track tapes are apparently quite rare and valuable.but I have yet to find one.

[@Tazzer88]

That Wii bundle was an absolute steal!

[@artistwithouttalent]

3:13 Ben Confirmed as New Robocop.

[@Moneytane1976]

Love your haul, the Wii was a great score, the Polynesian stuff fascinates me, being part Polynesian myself (Maori) the epithet savage is thrown around a lot. You would love our thrift stores, full of tapes and CD's of Island and Maori music along with all the usual country and Elvis that you guys have. That Reba Collection would have been tortorous though.

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

You could always use that empty tape case for a loose tape. I did that once with a CD whose case was busted. I bought and ate a chocolate CD, cleaned out the case it was in (exactly like your standard regular CD case), and put the CD in. I still have it in the case to this day, though I'm sure if someone comes across my collection they'll be confused as heck, LOL.

[@KyosukeShigeru]

Archive Thrifting: "I'd buy that for a dollar! (maybe)"

[@VSigma725]

This is Polynesia...don't catch ya slippin up...

[@Ace411275]

Nice haul Ben :)

[@craigdavidson5613]

If you thought $40 was a good price for a preowned Wii Console, I found one earlier in the week just left outside my local Tender Centre, and when I inquired about it, the proprietors there said I can have it for free! Sure it might not have had the cords and cables for it, but I did test it out, and it works perfectly (I happen to have the cords and cables back home). In a similar fashion to your Wii console, it also had a bonus game inside, but while yours had Wii Sports in there, I had Super Smash Bros Melee inside. Not bad at all for a good deal!

[@ALittleSnowFairySaga]

I love these Archive Thrifting videos! Keep it coming, please.

[@tomp2008]

nice haul

[@megano2000]

My most recent gaming system is the Nintendo DSi.

[@JohnCran]

Re Slim Whitman my Mum loved him back in the 70's and his cassette stayed in the car and I would get nauseous every time I heard him sing. Arrrrrrgh

[@jamielee8991]

Also, you did get the better Wii, that one has the built in GameCube backwards compatibility built in

[@mightyfilm]

Hey! That radio station demo DVD has our crummy soft rock station (Magic 106.7), better known as "dentist office music." Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it. Between you and LGR, you guys find better, more interesting things than I ever do. Best thing I ever found, and I kick myself for not picking any up and this was years ago, was a 1980's big box VHS of Transformers episodes. They had little fold outs on the cover with little comic strips with scenes from the episodes. I'm sure the VHS were in bad, or even destroy the VCR condition. They were F.H.E's after all, probably dubbed in SLP mode. But those boxes were beauties. I would have been happy just putting them in frames and tossing the old tapes out.

[@jamesborlan2850]

mightyfilm I think the best thing I’ve found at my goodwill is the criterion release of the original Godzilla on blu ray I even found some Arthur dvds I did not yet have, some spongebob and jimmy neutron and fairly odd parents dvds I did not yet have , and season 1 of Ed edd and eddy (the 2019 reprint though) nevertheless the original print was out of print for a while My local goodwill is also where I’ve find und a few Simpsons seasons for a while (some of which I did not have yet )

[@RetroDakota]

I took a look into that "Fishdom" game at 9:24, and it's not even a girls game. It's a cheap repacakging of one of those numerous Bejeweled clones, but with fish and ocean stuff. It's not really an oddity, but it's a bit of PC gaming history. Before casual games became smartphone apps riddled with pay-to-win mechanics and microtransactions, they were simple games you paid for once. Walmart sold a lot of these kinds of games back in the day, and they still do so today. A lot of the casual game audience has moved on to smartphones, along with Fishdom. As for the Wii, I do have some game recommendations. You can easily find New Super Mario Bros Wii and Super Mario All Stars for classic Mario platforming action. For something like Super Mario 64, there is Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. Beware of shovelware. The Wii is notorious for low-budget shovelware and Wii Sports clones, and those tend to be the lowest priced games too. If you can get past the shovelware, you can find a lot of fun Wii games that are worth your time. You will need to get used to using motion controls in certain games like the Super Mario Galaxy series.

[@JosephASobora]

I had the entire series of "The Wonder Years" on DVD for a great price at "Walmart". Bit surprising that you found the first two seasons for $2.50, that's a crazy deal!

[@jamesborlan2850]

Joseph A. Sobora I’ve found the first season for a buck at dollar tree that’s a fantastic deal

[@anthonyorm]

Welcome to the future of 2006

[@Fluteboy]

14:23 - You can keep those. There's nothing wrong with my lung.

[@ChaunceyGardener]

The Branson episode took a toll on poor Ben...

[@motherbrain86]

extra 100 points ben for the Elton john empty sky 8 track(forgotten EJ masterpiece)

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Quick question that William Shatner CD. is that the one with his rendition of Rocket Man?

[@PlayButtonPone]

No, the studio recording is from 2011's "Seeking Major Tom", The 1978 one is from the Saturn Awards Show.

[@keithfulkerson]

$4 for an 8-track? Wtf?! The Wii can be hacked pretty easily to add emulators and homebrew, etc.

[@sawbonesquad4876]

I smell a new Archive Riffs. It reeks of tobacco.

[@Code7Unltd]

I'd never thought I'd hear the words "Leisure Suit Larry for Kids" as a description for "Super Paper Mario". Anyway, you now should get an SD card, add a copy of "LetterBomb" onto it, and install RiiConnect24 on that Wii, as the servers for WiiConnect24 shut down some time back. You also might want to download Nintendont for the Gamecube games (provided your system doesn't have Gamecube compatibility) and for compatibility with the Sega/Namco Triforce arcade machines.

[@citrusella-nomorecraptions]

I do believe the message board hack for crashing the Wii is called "Letterbomb". If he's going to do that, though, he should grab the Homebrew Channel/bootmii installer and run *that.*

[@Code7Unltd]

@@citrusella-nomorecraptions That Homebrew Channel installer was actually the route I added HBC onto my console.

[@adamstamps3568]

what was the ps2 games

[@KyosukeShigeru]

Mostly crap you'd find at a thrift store, which would be sports titles.

[@adamstamps3568]

@@KyosukeShigeru never be to sure ive had some great finds from charity shops in uk

[@OddityArchive]

All sports titles.

[@VectraQS]

My dad sold our childhood Wii on eBay a while back. I've been looking for one to send him just to piss him off.

[@IAmNotAFunguy]

"Super Paper Mario" is actually quite a good game. Not as good as "Thousand Year Door" but at least it's not "Sticker Star".

[@stephenemmett9753]

May I send you over some of my Top of the Pops sound a-like vinyl records in case you want to do another "Record Rip Offs"?

[@prismstudios001]

So, What are your feelings on John Mayer?

[@FooPanda]

Whatchu got against John Mayer?

[@OddityArchive]

It's just a little in-joke. I briefly touched on it on Episode 170.

[@FooPanda]

@@OddityArchive I'll have to revisit that episode then, and I was just being silly :P

[@davoid96]

Here's a challenge for you! Find a CD or vinyl of Pink Floyd The Wall at a thrift store, I've found the movie in DVD and VHS format but I honestly doubt ill ever see the album (or most Pink Floyd albums) at a thrift store.

[@OddityArchive]

I bought an LP of The Wall at a Goodwill when I was in college (excellent condition, at that). I got a CD of it a couple of years ago at another store, which I used to replace the (new) copy I'd bought in high school (of which, I'd managed to scratch disc 2 into unplayability).

[@davoid96]

OddityArchive nice!

[@davoid96]

OddityArchive I’d go nuts if I found it on vinyl

[@OddityArchive]

I haven't pulled out the LP in years, but I remember being a bit underwhelmed by the sound quality.

[@randywatson8347]

Camcorder 👍

[@RubberChickenFilms]

Four dollars for an 8-track tape?! I see why that's your least favorite store.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

A Wii? Can you handle such modern technology benny-boy Boy. Be careful. it's very advanced. Just kidding that was a great find. How much was all of the Wii stuff all together.

[@OddityArchive]

The bundle was $40.

[@ladylilith6495]

...leisure suit larry for kids? Wow, even from a non-gamer that is the most bizzare description of a Mario RPG I've ever heard. Though to be fair out of the actual RPGs in the Mario series it is considered the weaker of the three. Oh btw Ben, the Wii is backwards compatible with Gamecube titles, so you've actually got a lot more potential for a larger library than you think.

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

Soft mod that Wii and play imports and ISOs. Hope you can get that video camera fixed.

[@algorefan4]

If you are looking for a more classic Mario game on the wii look up new super Mario bros on the wii

[@DuckGWR]

Use a soldering iron to warm up the rivet and pull it apart when the rivet has warmed up the plastic it's stuck in, and then do it again in reverse to put it back together... or don't, just jam it back together. I've never had that many issues with the black Warner carts, I just practiced on a few sacrificial carts on where to reach the tabs. The later white sonicly welded ones I still haven't found a better way than hope and a knife. And jeeze, $4 for an 8 track? Yikes, it pains me to pay more than a dollar, and 8 track is most of what I collect at this point

[@Musicradio77Network]

Warner was company that put out 8-track in a “death cartridge” in which Benny Boy called it. I used to have 8-track tapes of these, and many of them are “Death Cartridges” like Audiopak and Capitol. Both Capitol and Audiopak 8-track White cartridges had a screw in the middle which was repairable. Other Capitol black cartridges had no screw in the middle and 2 grips on the corner in which you can pry it open which was a tough challenge.

[@rwdplz1]

*JOHN MAYER*

[@JayDee284]

KILL IT KILL IT KILL KILL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gazjones3549]

LGR does it better

[@OddityArchive]

Yes. Yes he does.

[@KyosukeShigeru]

...Ben is the master of odd. :o

[@gazjones3549]

@@KyosukeShigeru yes. Yes he is.

[@jamesborlan2850]

OddityArchive I think archive riffs is just as good as LGR

[@ilovebeingtheultimatebrony6685]

i just picked up my first laser disc player yesterday and all i have for it so far is dragon's lair