15 Games that Need to be Rescued from WiiWare Purgatory
A few weeks ago, Seth Sturgill, a podcast acquaintance of mine, put out some feelers on Twitter for games to cover on his Keep Nintendo Weird podcast. I’ve been on the show twice before, talking about Pocket Card Jockey and Part Time UFO. If you know anything about me, you know I hold both those games close to my heart. So I was happy to give them just a little bit more coverage on his podcast, even if I stumbled over my words more than Joe Biden stumbles up the stairs. With Seth’s latest call for titles to talk about, there was only one that came to mind. It’s this weird Nintendo exclusive designed by Martin Hollis, arguably best known for his work with Rare on Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark, and GoldenEye 007. Those games are a far cry from the one that popped into my mind. Bonsai Barber has no blood or bones, but it does have berries. And carrots. And corn. And cauliflower.
It’s a delightful game, and while I’m sure I’ll appear on the Keep Nintendo Weird podcast to gush about my love for it someday in the future, reminiscing about my time spent with it got me thinking about how it’ll one day be a piece of lost media. That’s because Bonsai Barber was only released through WiiWare, a service Nintendo killed for good back in 2019. Saying goodbye to that digital shop was a tough one for me because it’s something that brought me so much joy. I mean, that was the service where I discovered LostWinds and Cave Story and Mega Man 9. All three of those games had the good graces to jump to other platforms, but not every worthwhile title did. And that’s the point of this list.
Media today is as fragile as it’s been since the birth of media. There are so many television shows and movies from the early years of the industry that are
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