I don’t know what it’s all about.
I dont know if it’s been posted, questioned, or answered yet, but finding an answer to this question has been pretty hard, as a forums/google search for “wii spine grey” doesn’t really help at all, anyway.
Why is the word “Wii” on the spines of all wii games written with a different shade of grey? I line all my Wii games up from darkest to lightest and they go
“Resident Evil 4”, “Wii Play”, “Warioware”, “Wii Sports”, “Excite Truck”.
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the difference between RE4’s almost-black colour, and Excite Truck’svery feint grey makes me think that it’d be pretty noticable to the publishers. i dunno. i compared my library to another guy’s and his are all the same shades of grey as my copies of each game are.
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Stolen, verbatim, from the Something Awful forums
Well theres some kind of code to it. Maybe it reveals a much larger story or perhaps they are keys to a much larger puzzle that we can’t see till we get more games. Only time will tell. Maybe some day, they will rescue that ghost in the machine. Until then, i hope he likes Wii-Sports. Otherwise its going to be a long century
You’re just posting this to see what the UA kids can do with it, aren’t you?
Here’s my answer:
Every time a child plays a Wii game, all copies of the game change shade a little. If the child is morally good, the grey goes very very slightly lighter. If the child is morally evil, the grey goes just a teensy smidgeon darker. You can’t tell the effects except in mass, but you can start to see the patterns. Trucking is more moral than sports, which is more moral than the fiendish Wario, and they’re all more moral than Resident Evil.
The funny exception is Wii play. There’s this one kid who turns any game he plays pitch black. It’s getting lighter again, because she only played it once. It turns out she doesn’t like video games much – she has bigger and more important hobbies.