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Looking Back at amiibo with AntDude

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Scott's Stash

Scott's Stash

8 ай бұрын

Scott sits down with AntDude and looks back on Nintendo's amiibo figures.
AntDude: ‪@AntDude92‬
This video was originally released via Card #16 of the Scott The Woz Collectible Trading Cards in late 2022.
Edited by Scott Wozniak
Main Channel: ‪@ScottTheWoz‬
Twitter: / scottthewoz
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@Outlandishoutset
@Outlandishoutset 8 ай бұрын
The peak of the amiibo madness was the literal truck of special edition splatoon amiibo that got stolen in the UK. That was the moment I fully accepted that having a full collection was going to be impossible
@MorphBaller388
@MorphBaller388 8 ай бұрын
Special edition? How were they special?
@SakuraAvalon
@SakuraAvalon 8 ай бұрын
@@MorphBaller388 They were Grand Theft Auto themed. lol
@Torterra890
@Torterra890 8 ай бұрын
@@MorphBaller388In the UK, The green squid amiibo were exclusive to a splatoon game bundle instead of the three pack. I belive the truck containing them was the one stolen, making the green squid significantly rarer there.
@jorelc6
@jorelc6 8 ай бұрын
Ocean's Amiibo UK Edition. I remember. S** went bananas
@blackrockshooter224
@blackrockshooter224 8 ай бұрын
​@@Torterra890I actually didn't know about this! as someone who lives in the UK and has a green squid amiibo, it is now alot more cool than I thought lol
@Robin0928
@Robin0928 8 ай бұрын
I love the "occasionally posted, hyper-specific Nintendo-themed Scott the Woz and AntDude Podcast"
@BugsyFoga
@BugsyFoga 8 ай бұрын
The long lasting winner of the toys to life genre.
@nouns7504
@nouns7504 8 ай бұрын
What the fuck do any of the new ones, ultimate and newer just doesnt have games
@mikee2725
@mikee2725 8 ай бұрын
@@nouns7504 Splatoon ones give you in game bonuses and the zelda ones all work for Totk
@JakeLT64
@JakeLT64 8 ай бұрын
Best at “toys” Worst at “to life”
@Soniman001
@Soniman001 8 ай бұрын
@@JakeLT64except no kid would ever play with these as toys when they have no articulation and attached to a base Amibo only lasted this long because people WANT to buy figures of iconic video game characters whereas no one gives a shit about bumblefuck mcnobody from sky landers game number 4
@OnMyWayToAsakura
@OnMyWayToAsakura 8 ай бұрын
Not really, who tf buys the amibos for the game play aspect? You know... the "toys to life" part?
@EisenSMT
@EisenSMT 8 ай бұрын
Love the thumbnail of Scott comforting Ant over his Amiibo addiction
@greetingsgoodsir8143
@greetingsgoodsir8143 8 ай бұрын
I love how this two hour retrospective doesn’t really end, it just kinda stops.
@Jotaauvei_
@Jotaauvei_ 8 ай бұрын
Super Mario Wonder not having Amiibo support definitely sends a message... 😢 RIP the best DLC
@animedude834
@animedude834 7 ай бұрын
Very true, it should’ve had amiibo but hey, at least TotK got some…
@alexspeedwagon3701
@alexspeedwagon3701 8 ай бұрын
Ten years amiibos have existed and this is the first time i've ever considered that they might be real-life trophies. I'm not an amiibo guy but man i'm tempted now
@KingofBeasts444
@KingofBeasts444 8 ай бұрын
Do it
@colinje
@colinje 8 ай бұрын
YESSSSS we NEED an ant dude and Scott podcast, they bounce SO well off of each other!
@jasonoyola590
@jasonoyola590 8 ай бұрын
for sure
@JsYTA
@JsYTA 8 ай бұрын
They are both part of the Nintendo KZfaqr w/ Glasses Multiverse
@Deoxys911
@Deoxys911 8 ай бұрын
@@JsYTA Pretty sure it's just a universe since they all exist in our reality. Less exciting, but more practical for crossovers at least!
@evanshanley8110
@evanshanley8110 8 ай бұрын
add nathaniel bandy to that too
@JaycieSLove
@JaycieSLove 8 ай бұрын
Amiibo feel like they hardly do anything in game, but if you try to add more functionality it feels like too much. It’s a hard line to balance, and nowadays it feels like you mostly buy them for the figures alone.
@Nerdtendo6366
@Nerdtendo6366 8 ай бұрын
I spent $25 dollars for the Amiibo Festival one day and then spent $12 for the game itself. I ended up spending more money on that than I would’ve just buying the three things on eBay
@Zundelley
@Zundelley 8 ай бұрын
I don't even care about amiibo that much, I just love watching Scott and AntDude talk about stuff lol
@CheddarBayBaby
@CheddarBayBaby 8 ай бұрын
AntDude looks no older or younger than he did 20 years ago. He is ageless and eternal. From my estimation he’s been 26 years old for the last 30 years.
@Jake76667
@Jake76667 8 ай бұрын
i remember in early 2015 going out "amiibo hunting" as i called it with me and my dad going to a bunch of stores that were really far away from where we lived at the time and specifically in early 2015, getting really close to actually getting a marth, ike and shulk amiibo in stores when the latter was still a gamestop exclusive and when all 3 of them were extremely hard to find in the united states. it was a good time
@joshuadenaux3620
@joshuadenaux3620 8 ай бұрын
I was immediately drawn to amiibo because I liked them as cool affordable figures. I consider myself extremely lucky that I own a complete set of amiibo and I've never had to pay above MSRP.
@ThatLegoGuy-10140
@ThatLegoGuy-10140 8 ай бұрын
It borderline ENRAGES me that Scott has said he sold all of the figures from his "Toys to Life" video,but HE KEPT THE POKEMON RUMBLE U FIGURES!
@Lucifronz
@Lucifronz 8 ай бұрын
Honestly, those are the ones that have gained interest the most too. Just look at the prices online. For reference, these were $3 random gacha balls from like GameStop and I think the Pokemon Center. Now they run anywhere from like $20 for Lucario to $80 for a Piplup and the full set sold together without the shiny or Japanese collectibles is like $200-400. Which... as a weird Pokemon fan who wants these, very much hurts me. Especially as I had a decent time playing the 3DS Pokemon Rumble free-to-play game when I had absolutely nothing else but a pre-installed copy of Yokai Watch to play on my 2DS.
@turtleanton6539
@turtleanton6539 8 ай бұрын
​@@Lucifronzjust save up and buy them all
@ThatLegoGuy-10140
@ThatLegoGuy-10140 8 ай бұрын
@@Lucifronz Yeah,they have picked up a following.But i'm still shocked he sold all of the Lego Dimensions and Skylanders figures.(Not the Disney Infinity ones though,they can go die in a landfill)
@Cr3zant
@Cr3zant 8 ай бұрын
Just wanna give some appreciation to new editor Scott Wozniak for bringing this video to everyone.
@mds_main
@mds_main 8 ай бұрын
Actually, the editor for this video specifically is Scott himself, as written in the description and since this was one of those videos tied to that card game of his.
@zekromfan1
@zekromfan1 8 ай бұрын
@@mds_mainThe S-Reader collection to be exact. Too bad nobody really used it.
@PanthalassaRo
@PanthalassaRo 8 ай бұрын
Man I can hear these two dudes talk about anything for hours, great content fills me with nostalgia.
@turtleanton6539
@turtleanton6539 8 ай бұрын
Indeed😊
@Tonjit41
@Tonjit41 Ай бұрын
yeah. they bounce off of each other really naturally.
@Owochii
@Owochii 8 ай бұрын
I hope next year Scott releases a video called Looking Back at Looking Back at amiibo with AntDude with AntDude
@Lucifronz
@Lucifronz 8 ай бұрын
This is giving me JacksFilms reacts to JacksFilms reaction video vibes.
@ErnestSheptalo
@ErnestSheptalo 8 ай бұрын
An xzibit moment
@ianswift3521
@ianswift3521 7 ай бұрын
zoomer humor is so lit. y'all. soooo lit bruh. no cap fam.
@Curlyheart
@Curlyheart 5 ай бұрын
Honoka :D
@MrVIPGuest
@MrVIPGuest 3 ай бұрын
​@@ianswift3521don't hurt yourself making fun of our slang lmao
@TheMapleSyrupShow
@TheMapleSyrupShow 8 ай бұрын
When Ant mentioned MarioTehPlumber and the Rosalina incident, I got shivers down my spine. Internet troll or not, that had to be the pettiest thing bro ever did.
@kenn_k
@kenn_k 8 ай бұрын
this crossover would have been way more appropriate if the conversation was set to footage of their hands and amiibos on the carpet
@MrBda241
@MrBda241 8 ай бұрын
It's amazing that at some point, even now, some good looking amiibos were considered common and were going for dirt cheap. Amiibos like Palutena, Lucas, Ryu, Waluigi (all like $10 or less on Ebay) and the Splatoon 1 pack amiibos ($20), and how the most sought after amiibo like Corrin P2 and Tiki in some regards, plummeted in price due to their restock, from $80 to $100 to $25 or $30 at most.
@magmarxiogaming6717
@magmarxiogaming6717 8 ай бұрын
The main reason the loot goblin amiibo box was like that was because the amiibo for it was literally just a modified version of the cute but deadly figure for it
@someguy4040
@someguy4040 8 ай бұрын
When Smash Melee was released with its opening cutscene, it set a burning desire into me to own little figurines of each and every character. Years later, it seemed as if my childhood dream had come true, and while I managed to snag a lot of them, the ongoing scarcity of Amiibo in my part of the world frustrated me to the point where I eventually lost interest. It was a lot of running around, going to every store time and again, being massively disappointed constantly, spending hundreds of dollars on ebay... And now they sit in a box in my basement. Like, I kind of get the limited supply with the original wave, but I mean, we got one Alm/Celica for the ENTIRE city... ONE. And that's also just one for every adjacent city and town within a 50 km radius. And there was never a restock. And that wasn't the exception, that was the rule. We got one to three of most of the Amiibo's that wern't Mario or Pikachu. At some point, they should have figured out the supply issue, but they never did. Now years later, I find it annoying that games like TOTK get new Amiibo that unlock in game items exclusive to that specific figure, when I already have not one, not two, not three, but FIVE Link Amiibo already... And 3 of them pretty much do nothing in any game. There's no reason that a Link Amiibo can't just be a Link Amiibo and be usable in future games. Oh well, at least the quality of the figures have improved... Very disappointed when I got my Shulk Amiibo and the design on the back of his pants were smeared. Good luck getting a replacement because there weren't any.
@crappyjunk5
@crappyjunk5 8 ай бұрын
I've come to realize that collecting every one is a pure pipe dream. I'll be content to just complete the smash series once Sora is released and one day set up a gaming room modeled after the Melee trophy room. Other than that I'm happy to just pick up the ones of characters I like
@eden22.7
@eden22.7 8 ай бұрын
Blessing us with all these recent uploads ! Merry Christmas
@TwinBlasters
@TwinBlasters 8 ай бұрын
I put this on while playing my Switch, and it was incredibly comfy. I am one of the madmen Ant refers to, who has a near complete amiibo collection... all still in box. Amiibo definitely come with stories. Those couple of peak years were attached to numerous acquisition shenanigans. You posted this only like a week after the Splatoon 3 and Tears of the Kingdom Zelda/Ganon amiibo released. They had quite a long run
@MilkWasABadChoice17
@MilkWasABadChoice17 8 ай бұрын
This video could otherwise be known as "Amiibo History & Analysis: A Compendium of Passion & Regret".
@The84Chambers
@The84Chambers 8 ай бұрын
I have every Amiibo in their respective boxes. I officially ran out of room for them after receiving the latest Splatoon ones. I have two shelves spanning a total of 18 feet. Both shelves are stacked two high and 3 back. They have to be packed away soon. What a ride it’s been.
@Catspirit123
@Catspirit123 8 ай бұрын
the early days of amiibo were rough for a villager/wii fit main like myself...
@PrinceDinoboy
@PrinceDinoboy 8 ай бұрын
I love misprints that say amiibo are compatible when they aren't. One of my favorite parts of Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition.
@datalphalion
@datalphalion 8 ай бұрын
3DS Amiibo support began with Smash 3DS via a post launch update. The first completely original 3DS game to have Amiibo support was Code Name STEAM. That game supported Marth, Ike, Robin and Lucina and I still think it’s the coolest Amiibo functionality out there.
@thousandyeargems4360
@thousandyeargems4360 8 ай бұрын
Il never forget the Lucario day. Me and my buddy woke up at 6am to wait infront of toys r us, and the line exploded an hour before opening. Good times
@mr.d5247
@mr.d5247 8 ай бұрын
The very first Amiibos I ever got were Pearl and Marina from Splatoon 2 for my 17th birthday, then I got Callie and Marie for Christmas the next month. Now I’m getting Shiver, Frye and Big Man this Christmas.
@leeartlee915
@leeartlee915 8 ай бұрын
For Smash, I thought the no brainer function Amiibo should have had was alternative costumes (beyond the ones built into the game). But hey, that’s me.
@Glory2Snowstar
@Glory2Snowstar 8 ай бұрын
I’ll never forget the joy of snagging that Piranha Plant Amiibo right before a MASSIVE blizzard hit us in 2019. Their cardboard got wet with snow but the figure themselves stayed pristine and chompy. They really are a wonderful lil’ specimen. Just a sweet, wholesome memory for me. Also they can’t fit in a jar.
@Lucifronz
@Lucifronz 8 ай бұрын
I prefer to know how capable amiibo are of fitting inside Griffin's mouth. That just seems like a better measurement to me.
@maccamachine
@maccamachine 8 ай бұрын
These types of videos have been amazing man keep up the great work. Awesome topic I only have a few of the amiibo I really wanted like banjo kazooie and the botw guardian. I do have skyward sword link and the pee pole smash link also
@tlgkevin4431
@tlgkevin4431 8 ай бұрын
I've been watching antdude forever since 2007 with his old channel still love it so nostalgic and Scott and Anthony just make perfect sense together
@rexdawn7
@rexdawn7 8 ай бұрын
Starlink amiibo was a cool toys to life, and they chose to sell the digital content tied to the amiibo separately from the amiibo themselves.
@-Khepri
@-Khepri 8 ай бұрын
I'll always remember bringing my incinoroar to my friends house and watching him fk up everybody 😂 guy was a freaking monster
@luigiRobs14
@luigiRobs14 8 ай бұрын
I just want the Sora amiibo because their was a point where I thought he wouldn’t get into Smash and i’m glad I was proven wrong
@LNERFlyingScotsman
@LNERFlyingScotsman 8 ай бұрын
Man, the Amiibo craze was one of my most stressful but favorite memories as teen to look back on. I initially was going to pass on these when they were revealed, but once I saw how great they looked in stores I just got my collector's mindset to get them all. I was a bit late on the draw and by that time the rarity scarce and rumors of discontinuation started to get into me so I had to get them. I am not proud in the slightest of how some of how much I had to spend to get the ones I couldn't find anymore on eBay like Fox, Captain Falcon and Pit and for Wave 1's Holy Grails I remember setting up an German Amazon account and had those shipped to me in the U.S. once they restock there. I got lucky ordering a Little Mac from Gamestop's website. That was one of the rare ones down that I didn't need to buy from a reseller. One of my favorite memories from this was having my mom drive me around to several Targets and Toys R Us's looking around for any of the ones I was missing and eventually ending the day with picking up only Diddy Kong from a Gamestop. I only went for the Smash Bros. Line. I drew the line there and wasn't interested in anything else (besides Amiibo cards for Animal Crossing 9 years later). Now I have nearly all of them from Smash Bros. with any amiibo I bought after Smash Ultimate keeping them in the box rather than opening them up as soon as I got them. I even kept all the original packaging after my third one with the plastic blisters and it's all displayed on one of the walls in my room. Also got an in package Mario and Yoshi (my first two) to fill the space my original boxes would've been had I not thrown them away) and the Retro 3-pack in box because I had already ordered them loose from Amazon de.
@earthboundman5
@earthboundman5 8 ай бұрын
Words can't explain how much amiibo mean to me. I have basically a complete collection, I've been collecting them since literally day 1 (November 21, 2014). I was 12 at the time, so the perfect age to be obsessed with something like amiibo, and they've just stuck with me. My amiibo collection is literally my pride and joy
@Lucifronz
@Lucifronz 8 ай бұрын
They're just fun. The small perks in games are nice, and admittedly while I don't like *having* to have a figure to do something in a game, I do think it adds value to the figure itself and makes it all the more worth collecting, but overall the figure itself is the main reason to get it. I just feel extra incentivized by the NFC functions. For me, my collection is primarily Skylanders. I have so many of them and I hope to increase my collection some more some day. But I do have some amiibo, and I love them. They're mostly the Animal Crossing amiibo, which I got because I'm a fan of the series and the quality of them is *astounding.* In my opinion, they are among the most well-designed and detailed figures out there. KK's guitar has a texture to it, Cyrus and Reese have ridges on their overalls, and the base of the figures is a cut-out of the terrain from the games. All-around *incredible* figures. But I also once picked up a Robin amiibo because I liked the design, long before I ever played and beat Awakening (by that time I was only a fan of Fates as it was my first and only FE game). It was one of my earliest amiibo, in fact. Now I have quite a few, but they're all safely tucked away with most of my stuff after a big move until I can get my living situation... well, _situated_ a bit better and find some room for them. I just wish I had a cheap and affordable display option for them. I want to have like elevated platforms so that the amiibo and Skylanders in the back (separately displayed, of course) have a height advantage over the ones in the front instead of just sitting in a crowd of figures next to each other, which doesn't look that great. But yeah... I treasure all of my figures. Unless I knew I could get a quick replacement, like I did with Nightfall when my nephew wanted it, I would never part with them. And not just because Skylanders have even *more* utility where they are actual playable characters with their save data stored on them outside of the Imaginators and 3DS games (where they let you save to the game/system).
@SakuraAvalon
@SakuraAvalon 8 ай бұрын
My Walmart stopped carrying them after BotW. Honestly, I grew to hate them, when I found out there was cool gear in Splatoon that you cannot get without an Amiibo.
@jacobserperior
@jacobserperior 8 ай бұрын
I remember when Marth was rare and I found a bunch in a salvage store for $7 each brand new. I bought 1 like a civil man and kept it sealed for awhile. I did eventually cave and open because I wanted to use it, not to mention the value isn't really there anymore anyways. I was probably 13 or 14 at the time, so it's not like I had the funds to buy them all and resell them for some crazy mark up if I wanted to.
@rexdawn7
@rexdawn7 8 ай бұрын
Why am I happy to watch a 2 hour video about a Amiibos?
@yo-nyxie883
@yo-nyxie883 8 ай бұрын
Scott is trying to anger the Pokemon Rumble U fan community again 😡
@GriffithFromBerk
@GriffithFromBerk 8 ай бұрын
All 4 people lol Jokes aside I’ve always wanted to play it and the figures were super cool
@DonWeaselYeehawEdition
@DonWeaselYeehawEdition 8 ай бұрын
48:38 “I feel like we can end this on the amiibo implementation” There is an hour and four minutes remaining 😂
@SherbetAlex
@SherbetAlex 8 ай бұрын
The only amiibo I went hard to get was the Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo which came out on my 21st birthday. I was living at San Francisco State at the time. The nearest Toys R Us was in Emeryville across the Bay. I woke up at 5AM on the morning of my 21st birthday to take multiple buses to get to the Emeryville Toys R Us before it opened. I was the first person there because everyone else who got there before me decided to stay in their cars because it was cold. I got all those people to get out of their cars and brave the cold with me for about an hour until the store opened.
@iGeeWiz
@iGeeWiz 8 ай бұрын
I didn't get into amiibo until Best Buy had Peach, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi for $9 and it felt too cheap to let pass by. And that was the start of my addiction because I really loved collecting amiibo from that point. I got them at the perfect time because at the time, GameStop wanted out of the pre-owned Toys to Life market and amiibo was included in that. Their sale was Buy 1 Get 3 Free and my local stores were FLOODED with amiibo figures and I remember getting about 30-35 of them for about $75. Rare ones at the time like Charizard, Shulk, Sheik, and many others! To this day, I'm only missing one Smash amiibo with Terry Bogard and I haven't paid more than retail for any amiibo excluding Mega Yarn Yoshi since it never got a reprint but I got 2 of them for $200 and sold the sealed one for $140 to recoup those funds. My favorite memory from my amiibo collecting was I walked into Best Buy on my birthday just to see what deals they had when Gamers Club Unlocked was still going on and they had 20% off new games and about 10 minutes to closing in the game section, I saw a cart full of stuff to put back on the shelf and right on the top was a PRISTINE Smash Meta Knight amiibo, which at the time was still a Best Buy exclusive but was sold out 9 months past its release and was going for almost $100. I picked it up with super speed and was shaking while my brother was confused as to why. It was my holy Grail at the time.
@r00b14
@r00b14 8 ай бұрын
Man all I ever wanted from amiibo was a skylanders-esque adventure game
@JMXico
@JMXico 8 ай бұрын
I love the fact that Nintendo made some merch that has staying power. It may not be a big collector's thing now but it's cool that they offer official merch that has a small bonus with games released
@vincentbranciforte9832
@vincentbranciforte9832 8 ай бұрын
I love amiibo so much im addicted to collecting them. i have every mario series, amiibo all splatoon series, amiibo zleda series amiibo, and all smash series amiibo, but the Pyra and Mythra amiibo couldn't get those in time ):
@leighdappa
@leighdappa 8 ай бұрын
❗️My Timestamps: 1:55 I never got caught up in the Amiibo collecting though I do think they look desirable. I only have three Amiibo: 1️⃣8-Bit Mario (red & green) 2️⃣Toad 3️⃣Charizard I DID have the Ryu one but sold it. ALL my Amiibo are still on their boxes...
@MrVIPGuest
@MrVIPGuest 3 ай бұрын
Where the rest of the time stamps?
@leighdappa
@leighdappa 3 ай бұрын
@MrVIPGuest: I found the one I gave was the only noteworthy one in the Video.
@MrVIPGuest
@MrVIPGuest 3 ай бұрын
@@leighdappa ah you said timestamps plural so I thought maybe you just forgot to update lol
@numbr87
@numbr87 8 ай бұрын
Am I crazy or is the sound out of sync with them talking?
@QuintonRe2s
@QuintonRe2s 8 ай бұрын
Finally finished this one! Great little video :)
@kennethwehrs8924
@kennethwehrs8924 8 ай бұрын
OK Scott, you've confessed. Now we need a video in defense of Paper Mario Color Splash.
@myriadmediamusings
@myriadmediamusings 8 ай бұрын
Smash is really the only one I stuck with, and at the time of this comment I'm really just missing three: Pyra & Mythra because I stupidly missed out on the initial limited sale period of that, and Sora, where I hopefully won't make the same mistake I did for Pyra & Mythra.
@TheChristianFangirl
@TheChristianFangirl 8 ай бұрын
For Pyra & Mythra, I suggest looking in-store at different Best Buys if you're in the US. My brother had the exact same problem and ended up finding them in a random BB when we took a trip across the country.
@Ziondood
@Ziondood 8 ай бұрын
I really miss the hunt! Going out with friends and just seeing what we could find was so fun!!!
@Tonjit41
@Tonjit41 2 ай бұрын
this feels like an interview recalling a tragedy
@-SuperNintendo64-oj4bz
@-SuperNintendo64-oj4bz 14 күн бұрын
Hearing Scott acknowledge Yo-kai Watch's existence ticked the little happy neuron in my brain.
@MegaNerdX
@MegaNerdX 8 ай бұрын
I do miss these times. Since the 1st wave, my wife & I got 2 of every Smash amiibo on release day. We would get to a store at like 4am for the 1st 3 waves. After that in my area, waves 4 and on we didn’t have to arrive til 6am or so. It seemed like it died down a smidge here in MA
@crazynaut223
@crazynaut223 8 ай бұрын
I appreciate amiibo Tap just for letting me play the fun parts of Metroid 1 without having to play through Metroid 1
@lakitudude7577
@lakitudude7577 8 ай бұрын
Kid named passwords
@crazynaut223
@crazynaut223 8 ай бұрын
@@lakitudude7577 Passwords still require the lame navigation and platforming, no thank you I'll just tap my Link amiibo and go right to Mother Brain
@justpinklasagna
@justpinklasagna 8 ай бұрын
this video made me realize that the new version of Mario RPG could have given us a Gino amiibo so we actually have Gino merchandise since right now we do not at all have anything for this character. They even released a line of plushies when the original Mario RPG came out and that set excluded Gino. so we've never had official Gino merchandise this means we could have had one if we remembered that amiibo existed at all.
@YoutubePizzer
@YoutubePizzer 8 ай бұрын
I never thought they were anything very cool. If they were plushies on the other hand, I would’ve sold my house to buy them. That yarn yoshi was the best amiibo by far
@faereman
@faereman 8 ай бұрын
This might sound a little harsh, but to me, Amiibos were just Nintendo's way to compensate for the Wii U's failure. Pretty much every feature that was implemented in games could've just been a regular unlockable. Smash Bros is the only game that used Amiibos in an interesting way in my opinion.
@hotfart
@hotfart 8 ай бұрын
They’re the closest we can ever get to having the Trophy Table from Melee.
@famoussaturn3237
@famoussaturn3237 7 ай бұрын
Would love for the audio from this to go to a streaming service of some kind. Love listening to this while working or cleaning
@Yokokazuo
@Yokokazuo 8 ай бұрын
Regarding the Japanese eShop and paying through the NFC reader, on Wii U and new 3DS you used to be able to make a purchase with NFC train cards. One of the most well known ones is the Suica card as it’s what is used for an area such as Tokyo. You can prepay for a set route/period of time and also put cash on the card where you can use it on any supported train line and even some vending machines too. And if you have cash on it, you could choose to use it on a purchase if you have enough money. I still have a “Manaca” card from Aichi which has ¥90, but since it’s roughly less than a dollar, I never had a use for it myself as I could only use it for purchases and not adding more funds.
@Kneevirus
@Kneevirus 8 ай бұрын
I wish they made 3 houses amiibo of the 3 captains so bad
@BorgztheDutchCyborg
@BorgztheDutchCyborg 8 ай бұрын
I'm sorry, Ant, but I see your shirt and I go "omg we need a Spyro amiibo"
@gordonraeburn7455
@gordonraeburn7455 8 ай бұрын
As someone who has never owned or had any interest in Amiibo, I enjoyed this 2 hour video about amiibo
@Mr_Top_Hat_Jones
@Mr_Top_Hat_Jones 7 ай бұрын
Same. I was searching the comments, because I knew that I couldn’t be the only one. I’ve never even thought about buying an amiibo, but this was a chill and informative video.
@robbertlw9610
@robbertlw9610 8 ай бұрын
Glad to have all of the SSB Amiibo’s, including Gold Megaman
@JoshTheWoz
@JoshTheWoz 8 ай бұрын
This was actually one of my cards so I watched this a few months back, but now everyone can watch it ^^
@skipatrolslayer
@skipatrolslayer 8 ай бұрын
I bought the awful Chibi-Robo Zip Lash game just for the amiibo. I love Chibi-Robo and think the figure looks so cool. I never once thought about if the plug fits into an outlet but thank god someone thought to make it not fit lol.
@Parappadarappa2
@Parappadarappa2 6 ай бұрын
I miss when amiibo was new so much I still remember walking into GameStop and seeing that giant amiibo kiosk with the Mario on top and getting my first Mario amiibo 😭
@Hodyna
@Hodyna 8 ай бұрын
Well, isn't the the thrill of the hunt one of the main reasons of why are we collect things at all? But yeah, it's really a shame that scalpers exist and ruin the fun for everyone.
@Cynim
@Cynim 8 ай бұрын
Great retrospective. It’s interesting to me to hear all that happen in the US. Here, in Switzerland, we didn’t have shop exclusivity and stock was okay-ish. There were some shortages, but didn’t last too long each time. By the way, about the Squid amiibo, it was also bundled with the game itself (maybe only in Europe, don’t know about the US). Okay, the 8-bit Mario Maker amiibo sold only with the system is ridiculous! We had it sold as a stand-alone or with the game.
@Thanosferatu
@Thanosferatu 8 ай бұрын
The 8 Bit Modern Mario amiibo was eventually sold separately.
@dialga236
@dialga236 8 ай бұрын
one of my favorite amiibo memories has to be back in 2016 i passed up callie and marie amiibo in favor of buying zelda triforce heroes. i regretted that descision for literal years, cus i barely played triforce heroes. but last year around thanksgiving i went to new york, and when i was in the nintendo new york store i saw callie and marie on the shelf and knew i pass it up a second time cus id regret it forever. also got pearl and marina and steve and alex amiibo. i dont really collect amiibo since the college town i moved to doesnt really have any amiibo or anything but the nintendo ny store was crazy for amiibo
@ImTheGuy
@ImTheGuy 8 ай бұрын
I love looking back at alamo with Antman
@shanemiller1182
@shanemiller1182 8 ай бұрын
I remember that
@Travisgaminglol
@Travisgaminglol 8 ай бұрын
Nothing feels better than finding an amiibo for like 5 bucks on a flea market
@videogameobsession
@videogameobsession 8 ай бұрын
I went all in on Amiibo. I think, for me anyway, it was that they instantly felt classic. Like they were ripped right out of Smash Bros Melee (as they sorta were), and they had a secondary function, aside from looking cool, (though truthfully I never planned on opening them., the boxes seemed like the perfect place for them.. Keeps them free of dust, they are flashy, and have their names on them, for the obscure ones). I have to also admit that I bought some doubles of them so I could open and display/use them. So I have complete, and minty boxes, which wasn't easy when I had many of them shipped! It took a lot of returns and repurchases. Complete until Wave 7, plus the SMB line. But then I had ENOUGH!.. I was running out of space, and unfortunately I don't even have the place to display them. I have them all carefully packed in totes.. I even have soft tissue paper between them to keep any of the clear plastic from getting scratched. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to my collecting. I would be lying I'd I said I didn't enjoy some of the thrill of the hunt. 😁 -MattH
@Typi
@Typi 8 ай бұрын
I've never really cared too much about the in-game functionality for amiibo. They're relatively high-quality figures for a reasonable price. Yes, the first couple waves of Smash were rough (especially the faces on more realistic characters), but nowadays the quality is great and they're fun collectables. Smash and Splatoon series are stand-outs, with the Zelda and Monster Hunter series also being extremely good.
@Nugget-ir5ni
@Nugget-ir5ni 8 ай бұрын
i think the coolest thing you could do is make your amiibo super op in smash ultimate by giving them a bunch of spirits and then trying to beat them or like teaming up with friends and fighting them together
@abloodcorpse3318
@abloodcorpse3318 8 ай бұрын
Ngl, it's probably just Metroid bias, but honestly, aside from the Smash Samus amiibo, EVERY Metroid series Amiibo is just so fucking nice. Like, unreasonably so for Nintendo's nichest long-running series
@rotallyPumpered
@rotallyPumpered 8 ай бұрын
I wonder if Mario Odyssey's copious number of costumes were ever considered to be NFC unlockables. A downright strange amount of work for the developers for cosmetic rewards with no gameplay impact. If the Switch had performed more like the Wii U, where only a handful of games sold well, I could see them propping up the few safe bet titles with more NFC merchandise like amiibo and cards.
@yellow6572
@yellow6572 8 ай бұрын
I like how the beginning is a group therapy for instead of alcohol anonymous, it’s amiibo addiction anonymous
@Delta21OnYT
@Delta21OnYT 8 ай бұрын
I remember getting the Mario Maker Wii U bundle for christmas, I wish Mario Maker 2 had the same amount of support and care put into it as the original
@Meated_Potatoe
@Meated_Potatoe 8 ай бұрын
Little did ant dude know, corrin player 2 would be rereleased only a couple of months after the recording 🤯
@cmantheboi2745
@cmantheboi2745 8 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: I don't know how but I got my Golden Mario amiibo at Toy's R Us. I even remember seeing on the package that it had the Walmart Exclusive logo.
@waywardlaser
@waywardlaser 8 ай бұрын
I don't have a ton of amiibo but my most cherished ones are the three wedding figures of Mario, Peach, and Bowser from Odyssey, and Bayonetta.
@cam-joh
@cam-joh 8 ай бұрын
Can’t believe that they forgot to mention the Wolf Link amiibo being a companion in BOTW! Since it was ZeldaWiiU for so long, it felt almost comforting to have Wolf Link as a little reminder :)
@Stuarts_youtubepage
@Stuarts_youtubepage 8 ай бұрын
Ant dude is referring to MarioTehPlumber for the Rosalina amiibo fiasco
@mattiesavannahpahl9934
@mattiesavannahpahl9934 8 ай бұрын
27:16 hi! It me! I even had amiibo festival going for multiple little get togethers 🤐
@michaelmunns
@michaelmunns 8 ай бұрын
God bless you Scott and AntDude
@cherrycreamsoda4253
@cherrycreamsoda4253 6 ай бұрын
I remember people cut out the NFC chip from the cereal box, put it in a spare base, and made a little plastic version of the box to put on the base. I thought that was neat.
@NocturnalBunny
@NocturnalBunny 8 ай бұрын
I was not expecting to be reminded of mariotehpumber, mr rosalina amiibo guy in the year 2023.
@MegaDoomdoomDoom
@MegaDoomdoomDoom 8 ай бұрын
Ah man, the early days of the Amiibo was weird. I remember buying the Pac-Man Amiibo from a vendor in the console game room of an anime con
@Nerdtendo6366
@Nerdtendo6366 8 ай бұрын
Shout out to the Donkey Kong Skylanders Amiibo, 10/10 existence
@redpup112
@redpup112 8 ай бұрын
1:20:59 for those who are curious about what the Dark Souls Remastered amiibo is and don't know their Dark Souls 1 (don't worry, I understand, these games are absolutely not for everybody)... the Dark Souls amiibo is of a guy called Solaire (it might be spelt differently, but it's pronounced "soul-air"). in the game he worships the sun and is "looking for his own sun," whatever that means. that pose is called "praise the sun," and people usually use it when they succeed. you also learn it from Solaire. I think the only reason people praise the sun is because Solaire is a nice person in a game where you can count the number of nice NPCs on two hands (one depending on who you ask). anyways, unless you do a few very specific steps that are, in retrospect, pretty easy to achieve (just killing a hard to find passive critter that won't fight back), he gets corrupted by a creature similar to a Half-Life headcrab and you have to kill him. because Dark Souls. he's also just like, a normal enemy, and not even a boss. as for the... emote? people liked it so much and it became probably the most memorable symbol of Dark Souls to the point that it's now in Dark Souls 2 and 3. It's not in Bloodborne or Elden Ring though. tl;dr: that guy is Solaire, and he's praising the sun, which is like a wholesome version of the Fortnite Default Dance. oh, and also: the loot goblins in Diablo don't even look like that! that goblin is so much more cartoony... kinda wish they looked like that in the actual game
@crobinson2624
@crobinson2624 8 ай бұрын
As someone who owns like 80 amiibos although they are a neat collectible, they are sorely underutilized by Nintendo. Nintendo could have made a free to play game that required amiibos to use, they could include amiibo functionality in every Nintendo published game that offered some kind of item or reward, and they most certainly could have produced more for customers to buy instead of every new one selling out within minutes or hours!
@Daniel-kx3zz
@Daniel-kx3zz 8 ай бұрын
Amiibos could have a entire retro game included. Imagine scan the ice climbers and you can play ice climber for nes just like that.
@Harmonia96
@Harmonia96 8 ай бұрын
They sort of did, the Wii U had a section that unlocked demos of the games these figures originated from. But yeah, that easily could've been expanded upon. Disney Infinity tried to pull something off like that, but it wasn't ambitious enough
@crobinson2624
@crobinson2624 8 ай бұрын
@@Harmonia96 Nintendo could have done it better than Disney. Nintendo could still do it, they could do a game based on Super Nintendo World theme park and you use amiibo to unlock content within the theme park game.
@Harmonia96
@Harmonia96 8 ай бұрын
@@crobinson2624 Oh, Nintendo Land was such a great game. Way better than what 1-2 Switch offered
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