Hi. I'm a 37-year-old graphic designer who fell back into video games after a long, work-shaped detour. This site is the side effect.
My last Nintendo console before the Switch was the Nintendo DS. Two-screen handheld, stylus, the whole deal. I owned a stack of weird import games nobody at school was playing, then drifted away from gaming once design school happened and adult life started charging rent. The years go by. Amiibos arrived in 2014 and I had zero idea, because I was busy color-grading photos for clients and the concept of small plastic figurines you scan onto a Wii U did not penetrate my bubble. Not once.
Then I got a Switch for Breath of the Wild. (As you do.) I was going to play one game, finish it, move on. That is not what happened. About forty hours in I learned the Wolf Link amiibo summons a little Wolf Link who fights monsters at your side and drops extra meat for the cooking pot. That was the first amiibo I wanted. I think most amiibo collections start that way: one specific figure, scratched out of one specific moment in one specific game, and then suddenly you have eighteen of them and your spouse is asking polite questions about shelf space.
My kids made it worse. Or better, depending on the day. They saw the Wolf Link, asked for their own, picked characters, and the shelf grew sideways. The Splatoon series in particular ruined me. The Animal Crossing cards are their own architecture problem, please do not ask me about Series 5.
AMiiPEDIA exists because I wanted one place to look up what every amiibo actually does. Not a marketplace, not a wiki ten clicks deep, just: which games does this one work with, what does it unlock, where can I get it, is it worth chasing. The kind of page I wished existed at 2am when I was trying to figure out whether the Marie amiibo unlocks something useful in Splatoon 3 or a sticker. Spoiler, mostly stickers. Worth it anyway.