The Wii Shop Chrome extension eases online shopping boredom

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The Wii Shop Channel music is iconic. It’s a meme of itself, with the first hits conjuring up images of Drake dancing in Hotline Bling and the robotic machinations of Mr. Krabs, but for good reason. The Wii Shop Channel music is beloved, and underneath the memes and 10-hour YouTube loops are memories of browsing the Virtual Console selection for hours on end.

And you can have that same experience in your browser. The Wii Shop Channel Music extension adds the theme to any retail website, and it helps ease the anxiety of endlessly clicking to fill time. And let’s be honest, it’s just downright cool.

While you’re stocking up on the best Chrome extensions and gathering the browser extensions you need to install on your relative’s laptop, make sure to grab the Wii Shop Channel Music — you’ll thank me later.

The aptly named Wii Shop Channel Music extension is available on Chrome and Firefox, and if you’re a developer, you can dig through the source code on GitHub. I spotted the extension online (thanks, Kotaku), and it’s pure bliss.

It will automatically play the Wii Shop music on most retail websites. That’s by default, but you can also select a handful of other tracks — the shop music for the Wii U, 3DS, and DSi, along with Coconut Mall from Mario Kart Wii. Presumably, with enough technical knowledge, you could even add your own music.

The music only plays when you’re shopping, but you can hijack it by selecting a song and waiting a few seconds on any website. It’s tied to your tab, so as soon as you tab away or go a different website, the track will end. The only exception is if you go from one shopping website to another. It’ll continue playing through the transition.

I was shocked just how responsive the extension was,