Fun fact about Meme Run: the reason why it got on the system in the first place is becuase the creator basically begged Nintendo to put it on like 8 times, and then they finally caved. This makes it even funnier that it got delisted for the Troll Face tbh

gotta love how everyone's like: "oh man I'm so nostalgic for the Wii U and 3DS e shops, Nintendo don't take them away!" and then Ant goes: "screw that, I'm gonna tear this crap apart!"

The reason that PDI Check was on the eShop was so that doctors in developing nations where they couldn't get expensive medical equipment could still get tools to help test the eyes of children. It's honestly really cool that they found the alternative to having to get the expensive equipment, and I'm sure it helped a lot of children.

the letter ruled, bc when it released it was on sale for 1$. played it, there were no enemies, just spooky noises, had a HUGE laugh with my sister. everyone was making fun of the dev on miiverse and he was a super nice guy, taking criticism pretty well and rolling w/ the jokes. the letter is now on steam and he’s actually still making games under the name of TreeFall Studios! it makes me so happy to see him following his dream, even after getting dunked on so hard with his first title

PDI check relies on the 3d aspect of the 3ds. basically you need to pick the one that's at a different depth

LOL!! Bro thanks for the shout out inclusion of The Letter. I also see you have our logo art in your thumbnail as well. That is hilarious. I am torn. Kind of sad it did not make the worst game on your list, and also relieved at the same time. Thanks for the emotions. Hit me up if you want a code for Meme Run 2, or some of my newer games that are much better, just for fun. Nice video, I miss these days. -Eli

In a small defense of pdi check being $100, standard pdi equipment can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Compared to that, $100 is quite cheap.

Actually, the Mario Clock alarm is a really good alarm, precisely because of how much of an earache it is It helped me trough highschool like you can't imagine

I actually had Kutar as a kid, I begged my mom to let me buy all 10 games. That was the worst 20 dollars I ever spent, because each was 2 dollars, which should have been the price for all 10. I still enjoyed it a fair bit though.

The 3DS will always be my favorite handheld system of all time. It’s home to so many of my favorite games and franchises. Plus it actually had wallpapers and music. And the virtual console was pretty good. Too bad all of those features never returned on the Switch.

That isn’t the only Meme Run sequel, there was another on Wii U that was also a first person shooter called “Bigley’s Revenge” (named after a stickfigure drawing of Ridley that was a meme on Miiverse, who also appears in meme run as a secret mode). It’s a first person shooter of all things.

12:34 A year ago I had a crippling social media addiction that made waking up with my phone impossible because I'd spend hours scrolling and then go back to sleep. For a while I actually found Mario Clock quite useful as it allowed me to wake myself up without like 17 notifications in my face immediately. Sounds a bit redundant but with no job at the time I was working with what I had haha.

9:15 As someone who put in literally hundreds of hours into Dragalia Lost, I genuinely miss it. It's a damn shame they didn't at least get Spirits in Smash Ultimate.

"am I finally going insane" Ant, you reviewed DOZENS of Spongebob games, spent over $200 on bad Switch games, and now you've spent God knows how much on bad 3DS and Wii U games.... sanity was never an option!

I hope to give some insight to the eye trainer "game" as there is some much needed context that antdude in my opinion should have considered. This software is not a brain age type thing, it isn't for us consumers, it was made a super cool eye doctor that wanted to create a more friendly and intuitive alternative to the much more expensive specialized equipment. I really respect this dude for making a whole ass software that is cheaper then bulky equipment and I feel like it gets too much flack.

I just discovered Tomodatchi Life and MiiTopia. I cannot believe I have never heard of these amazing video games before. These are the biggest diamonds in the rough I’ve ever seen.

"It's surprisingly easy to mod a 3ds" HE SAID THE THING

That brief showing of Dragalia Lost at 9:20 hurt my heart.

Story time: My Sister and My 3DS’es were never usually connected to the internet, but one connection slipped through the cracks and we got a demo of Dinosaur Office to watch. It’s sad to see such potential on Switch go where they install apps FOR you.

1:25 Yeah it hurts. Especially with Yo-Kai Watch 3. That franchise was done so dirty here in the states (ironic since the third game takes place in America).

I was way more attached to the 3DS E-Shop, and I just spent hours downloading demos and free-to-play games, watching game trailers, and most importantly… *staring at a game I really wanted but couldn’t afford because I was 6 years old.*

As a Kersploosh enthusiast I will not tolerate such slander for the genius of this ball dropping game, but thank you for mentioning it now people will know its existence. Who knows what we will do without Kersploosh.

Bro the 3ds was so good. It took me by surprise when I heard how bad it sold compared to the ds. Edit: Nice Scott the Woz reference at 1:00

I think the funniest thing about Meme Run is that the collision in the game was so terrible, you could just randomly clip through the floor at any moment. And I remember seeing the developer, on Miiverse, make a post that explained "uhh it's actually a gameplay mechanic, it's an invisible troll floor! it's indistinguishable from a real floor and impossible to determine when or where one will show up. It's intentional though!" He pulled a Sonic 3 manual "Robotnik's traps in Ice Cap Zone" bit to explain the glitches away instead of committing himself to patching them.

Kersploosh was actually the first game that I ever bought on the 3DS. As a kid, I would basically play anything.

Looking back on AntDude’s previous forays into the eShop bottom of the barrel is interesting, especially considering how many he compared to high school/college level projects. Because I have a feeling at least some of these _were._ I want to make a top down action roguelike, and put it on the Switch because I’m a big Nintendo fan. I’ve been working on it since my senior year of high school and I sort of empathize with some of these projects, because a few of them show a little, tiny bit of promise from the developer for improvement. Like, I’m sure my game will certainly be no Madden 08 or Gex (and I will most likely not be charging money for it), but the reason I’m making it and putting it out there is so I can improve and make better games in the future.

Oh God, I remember one time my brother and I were home alone and we ordered a pizza and downloaded and played The Letter on our Wii U. We laughed at how genuinely awful it was and had a great time all around.

That fat dragons game looked cute so I looked into the developer a bit. They’re called Nostatic and I think it’s just one dude from what I can tell. A lot of people assume these sorta low production quality games are made by companies who just don’t know how to make good games, but often it’s just one or two people with limited resources making a passion project :)

Nah, Kersploosh! deserves way more credit. Overall it's a perfectly fine, nicely polished time waster. It's short but the whole point is trying to get the best time possible so that gives it some decent replayability if you can get into the gameplay. It even allowed you to send and receive high scores via StreetPass which was pretty neat.

Hearing "Dinosaur Office RAAAAWWWRRR" just sent me back through a time portal

It's a real shame AntDude never came across Harold Reborn. I expected to see it going into this video, but to know he hasn't experienced the best piece of media, he's missing out.

PDI check is being used in countries where computers and medical equipment are not readily available, and it’s still being used as the cheapest option for eye testing there

Most Characters: No! I can't believe I've lost! Kutar: ** E X P A N D **

PDI check was on sale for 5 bucks once and I bought it... I was similarly underwhelmed.

Just so you know, Carlos Ramirez sold the copyright to troll face a couples years ago, but his lawyers absolutely did strike this game back in 2011

The reseal value is the primary reason why I bought those 3DS games I always wanted to play as quickly before they're gone and come back costing hundred dollars. Might as well by them now even if they are a little more expensive before the price gets just ridiculous.

13:59 this reminded me of a dream I had last night where "Garfield Kart 1+2" was a game released on the Switch, Garfield was a final character added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe along with the final dlc tracks, and perhaps the most egregious thing, in this dream the Garfield Kart games were fun, decent little kart racing games.

Great to see these retrospectives. Never owned these consoles, but I’m thinking of getting a 3DS after all.

Garfield Kart will allways be my favourite .

I do respect all the people that sat down and contributed something to the eShop, I have this Horseshoe Crab Rescue game that costed just a buck and it’s a chill little Unity beach simulator. I’d imagine this game has reached a wide number of people and helped them through the day. Also I will never forget Meme Run, and I will ALWAYS yearn to experience it firsthand.

18:18 seeing Cube Creator's title screen brings back so many memories. Back when I had an obsession with wanting Minecraft, I'd try to find any way to play it. The best I could do is play the Cube Creator Demo. I spent hours, days, months even playing the crap outta that demo. Not a great game, but I'll give it a nod of approval for lending me enjoyment. I wouldn't touch it now tho lmao

I love your new set up! It's so much more brighter than before! :)

I would like to add that The First Skunk Bundle was $25. It went on sale for free at one point, but you still got the $25 worth of My Nintendo gold coins. Worth it just for those coins.

I've actually played some of the Kutar games and I always find the losing animations funny

Absolutely love the 3DS. First console I owned that I didn’t have to share with my family and I have so many good memories with it. Still consistently play games on it, too. Any and all acknowledgment of Dinosaur Office being on the 3DS at some point is appreciated. Really was peak.

I have been spending the past week alternating between my Steam Deck, my Switch lite, and my 3DS. I love portable gaming so much.

Friendly reminder the 3DS and Wii U eshops aren't completely gone, you can still redownload anything you bought/downloaded in the past as well get game and system updates. The same is true for the Wii and DSi.

29:37 Fun Fact: This is the final line of The Eagles' hit song Hotel California. You could say it is a song about a haunted hotel, but certainly not one as bad as this.

I actually have Bird Mania on my 3DS! Assuming the leaderboard was actually online, I had most of the top scores. Wonder if that’s changed?

Fat Dragon does have a soundtrack. The main theme is John Cage's "4:33".

Cube creator 3Ds sequel, cube creator dx, is actually really good. It’s less of a Minecraft clone and more of a Minecraft inspired game

Kersploosh has a japan-only expanded version called 新ひゅ～ストン (Shin Hyu~stone) that was never localized. Maybe that fixes some of the issues you were having with it?

1:46 Or… did you know that modding your 3ds is surprisingly eas-

Anyone ever try Block Form? I recently got a New 3DS XL to mod it and was curious about some of the New-exclusive games. One of them was Block Form, and it’s literally nothing more than the default Unity environment with a start menu and a cube as a playable character. I’ve used Unity myself in a college-level Game Dev class, and Block Form could be thrown together by a single student in an hour tops, like it’s so low-effort that all you’d have to do is create a new project and write a short PlayerController script, maybe attach a RigidBody component to it, and that is Block Form

Just so you know, Cube Creator 3d actually has a sequel which was released in 2018. It's called Cube Creator DX and it's actually really good

I miss the 3ds/wii u era virtual console. Back when i could buy a game and own it and play it offline

I had a friend that used to play Meme Run. Needless to say, their decisions in video games resulted in our relationship today!

Dude, Antdude92, I love your content. This one, in particular, made me laugh the hardest I've laughed in a long while.

Bird Mania had a fierce competitive scene, I’ll let you know. Also I actually quite enjoyed The Magic Hammer. The main point of the game is to get blocks from the graveyards to restore the plazas in the various towns, to power up the hammer. It was a simple gameplay loop, but it kind of works for me.

And, if you completely missed this era, always remember the old saying: - "It is actually really easy to mod your Nintendo 3ds" .

Dinosaur Office was my childhood. I laughed my butt off when I watched. I would watch them over and over again. You put a memory from a time long forgotten back into my brain. Kutar was also a game I played a lot. I mean mini game.

The Dinosaur Office reference just uncovered a hidden nostalgia spot I've had and didn't even realized I missed. Thanks Ant

I actually bought pdi check on the Eshop… on sale. At one point they put it on sale for like 5 dollars and I bought it for the memes. It truly is peak gaming ngl

So I can shed the tiniest pinhole of light as to why there were so many questionable quality "indie" games on the Wii U shop at least. I'm speaking as someone who had a Wii U Dev kit back in roughly 2012, and aspirations to develop on it. I guess I was also a member of the indie initiative for a little while. First, they were heavily pushing an older version of Unity branched off from the main engine as the primary tool you would be using to develop on the Wii U. It was a few versions before Unity made some heavy QOL changes and upgrades to the engine, and it was very clunky. If you weren't developing using this old version of Unity, you were programming in some weird version of Javascript. Second, the dev kit was an absolute *bastard* to set up. I say this as an IT professional for 15 years. I got blindly lucky that the motherboard I had on my computer at the time possessed two ethernet ports, which ended up being how I had the dev kit connected into my machine. Nintendo's indie program (at the time lead by Dan Adelman doing everything he could before eventually leaving Nintendo) was extremely unresponsive when it came to support, with the initial setup thread on the private forum having over 10 pages of back and forth technical questions related to just getting the thing working. While I'm still sad I don't think the Wii U ended up reaching the success I thought it capable of, it's not like I was able to contribute to the brighter future. Wouldn't you know it, making your ideas into reality is hard, especially when you see the writing on the wall for the ailing console you're designing the controls and gameplay around.

So excited for may-rio month!

Daikon Set is actually part of a 4 game series on the 3ds and Wii U. Tbh I think they're good for what they are, I honestly love stupid simple games, and I mean Daikon Set is (or was) literally free. Fun fact, one game in that series was sold for 2 cents since launch, and while it's another simple one note game, the reason I found it particularly amusing is bc it has an absolutely absurd file size. It's bigger than some proper Nintendo first party stuff. Which is incredibly damning given the 3DS has such small storage and doesn't (officially) support any sd cards larger than 32GB.

Yeah my boi is back, i haven't played anything Nintendo related recently ive been mostly reading fantays books and watching fantasy movies like The Hobbit recently. Thank you!!!

That’s why I bought all my 3DS games before the e-shop closed. The games that I bought for $30 are now in the hundreds. It’s insane.

The fact that i own most of the games in the video (and all 10 kutar games) says something about me... Also, the Mario Clock alarm was how I woke up at midnight on September 9th to play Splatoon 3 for the 1st time.

The very few parts where Photo-Finder actually remembered that it was a Chibi-Robo game were okay, but yeah, it's a shame those were few and far between

22:08 "3DS is a great console" one of the most accurate sentences said in history

You know it’s a good day when antdude posts

2:20 that Bomberman Hero music, man!!!! Nostalgia hittin me hard, I loved that song as a kid and will NEVER forget where it comes from. Such a damn jam

Oh man, four minutes in and you already unlocked a core memory for me with Dinosaur Office 😂 this is gonna be a good one

All suspension railroad simulator needed was a control scheme menu, I had to look up controls online but it's enough of a game for the title it has. You can even say the name of the next stop over the intercom!

I’m so happy I got my system Homebrewed, because I can play all of this shit for as long as I want. The lack of Charm that the Switch has is so obvious when you just look back on the 3DS and WiiU

I feel bad for laughing so much while you had to suffer through these… but I did laugh a whole heck of a lot. And that’s very much appreciated.

Petition for AntDude to go down the "Garfield Video Game Rabbit Hole" like he did with Spongebob. At least from the NES to, like, PS3. There aren't *THAT* many of them...

I can confirm from prior experience in being a tester who certified games for release on console that there is absolutely no quality standards being checked beyond “Does it run?” and “Does it brick our machine?”

New AntDude video....my day has suddenly got better

I never thought I’d see Anthony reference Doug’s 1st Movie of all things.

Kersploosh is an absolute treasure. It's a quick high score game with super cute 3D effects. I'm sorry you can't see the difference between a doughnut and a piece of wood.

thank you , AntDude , 4 brightening our weekend !! 💗

Glad someone remember that dinosaur office demo thingy

I bought Freedom Planet from the Switch's eShop, and I hope you make a video on that, my favorite game of all time.

Good thing we have Ant here to remind us that the store shutdown wasn’t ENTIRELY tragic.

On the whole 'second-hand physical game prices' thing, funnily enough a few weeks ago I was looking in a charity shop near where my sister lives, and in there, I found a sealed copy of Pokémon Ultra Sun going for £5. Not even kidding, it was still factory sealed, the box looked more or less pristine, and it was being sold for five frigging pounds. I brought it and I'm keeping it as-is, if the price of it ever shoots up, it was a good investment! And yeah, I feel the same way about my copy of Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness how you feel about that Fire Emblem game X'D

AntDude: "The Stonecutter." My Brain: "Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric systems down? We do! We do..."

24:47 Never have i thought i would see a local landmark being shown here. Thanks for reminding me that aside from Dorfromantik and shooting galleries, this is the only type of game my country knows how to make.

kersploosh was one of my fav small games i got on the 3ds. it felt so charming

Hi Antdude I love this and I hope you have a good day and you are awesome and funny

I remember cube creator 3D. I was on the school bus and played the demo and thought it was so cool. I never really had a way to play minecraft

Probably the funniest part about the Garfield Kart sequel is that it is honest-to-God the exact game, with the only difference being that it’s on the Switch and it costs 30 FRICKING DOLLARS

As someone who actually had 3 surgeries to correct Strabismus as a kid, I cracked up at the "Merry Strabismus" joke.

I'll give it to Ant Dude.... his dry, one-word reactions get a chuckle out of me.

"Doug's First Movie." Haven't heard that name in a long time.

18:28 This was actualy one of the first 3ds games I pirated and it honestly brought me back to Fortresscraft 3d. Going into a mineclone expecting the worse can really make parts of it really shine

That kerploosh rant is genuinely so weird. Like imagine going "why is banjo a bear? Why does he collect puzzle pieces? Is it cause they we're so quirky and original haha"

I'm just glad to know I wasn't the only one who binged the dinosaur office content on 3ds when I was bored

I love it when Antdude starts counting with his fingers and then forgets to continue counting. 1:16