The Best Nintendo WiiWare Games You Completely Forgot About

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The Nintendo Wii is most likely remembered for its personality and eccentric games that set it apart from the rest of the console generation. Titles like Super Mario Galaxy and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess were surrounded by strange games that tried to take advantage of motion controls like Elebits and Boom Blox. Every exclusively downloadable game made for the Wii was called WiiWare and was sold on the Wii Shop Channel. While there were many titles that were made inexpensively and didn’t have much content, there were also a few stand-out titles for the service that were absolutely worth downloading.

The Wii Shop Channel may be offline forever, and it was still early in Nintendo’s history with online storefronts, but it was a great place to shop for interesting games. The store still used a points system and the games were priced anywhere from two dollars to 15, meaning many developers put smaller projects on the service that weren't worth full price. It’s easy to forget that there were independent and third-party developers that used the service to drop strange and exciting gaming experiments.

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While the Wii Shop Channel may have been shut down and unavailable for years now, there’s still ways to experience many of the games for the system. Preservation of Nintendo games is important, so the best games have been ported to other consoles and have small but devoted followings. With the retro craze moving forward towards the Wii era of gaming, here’s some of the WiiWare that is worth revisiting.

While Choice Provisions, formerly Gaijin Games, is most well known for the RUNNER series, it got its start on WiiWare with Bit.Trip BEAT. The first entry