Best of ND 2010: Presenting the Tosterown

This story was selected as one of our best from 2010. It was originally published on July 2, 2010 during Issue 4: Hardcore Apologists.

For hardcore gamers and some hardcore Nintendo fans, Wii has been a disappointment. Sure, there have been sequels to favorite franchises, but what about the graphics? Where’s the hardest of hardcore content? Where’s the super-cool, macho marketing? Fail, Fail, Fail! Perhaps in an effort to appease these complainants, and perchance silence them into restless evenings filled with endless nightmares, we took what we knew of Wii and threw it into a roid-raged think tank to show just how much “badittude” it could have had. Below are the fiendish marketing one-sheets of this, the manliest monstrosity Wii never was.

Special thanks to Evan Campbell, Andy Hoover and Matthew Tidman for some of the game title ideas.