Little did we know that we were in the midst of trying to find one the most sought after pieces of hardware since Tickle Me Elmo. I remember going to at least 5 stores in March only to find laughter when asked if they had any of these Wiis in stock. The manager of one store even told me that if I get in early enough, there may be two consoles, but I better bring a bat because the soccer moms trying to find them as well may have rabies.
So Janine and I pretty much gave up on finding the new Nintendo console until last week when I was shopping for her iPod Nano. Sitting there in the back of the store were three Wiis. So now I have my toy hooked up and after a few days of play, I wanted to give my thoughts on the Wii.
The unboxing was a thrill. I had so much fun just taking out the parts and putting everything together. There was nothing difficult about setup outside of having to reach around our honking big TV to plug everything in. Once I got it running, there was very little set up.

The interface is beautiful. You see several channels in a grid which houses space for the game that you have in the console, space for classic games that you can download over your wireless network, and their unique features such as a survey channel, their Opera browser, and a local news and weather channel. Everything is flawless. Of course typing in a web address with a remote is a pain, but we've been able to watch videos on YouTube and I've been watching some of my podcasts through the Wii.
The Wii games are very basic, but fun. A lot of movement is involved, but overall gameplay is a lot of fun and I can see the universal appeal with older people, women who are not gamers at all, and children alike. Janine and I have a lot of fun bowling. I just wish I could get those scores playing an actual game of bowling.
The ability to play classic NES, SNES, Sega, and GameCube games was the selling point for me. I grew up on Nintendo. I grew up playing the original Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Brothers, Mike Tyson's Punchout, and on and on. I am able to purchase points and download these games for the equivalant of five dollars per game. More are being added almost every day. I think I'm looking forward to Metroid. The big drawback however, is to play a lot of those games, a seperate controller is needed. We did not pick one up, much less the two that we would need to really enjoy those games.

The drawbacks though are very minor. I love this console. I am so grateful for Janine purchasing this for me. I am so happy that we can enjoy this together and have something for our guests to play with too. Eventually I will have that PS3, but I can wait for the console to drop in price, and I can definately wait for games to become available and for me to eventually look into purchasing that HD television.
Thank you, Janine, no one has ever been this good to me. I love you so so much!
You deserve it and much more. I love my Ipod. I've finally caught up with 2003. I suppose that now I've got an Ipod I'm not allowed anymore books on TAPE.
ReplyDeleteummmm....you both are geeks... teee heeee...just kidding...
ReplyDeleteHey guys, couldn't remember if we did this while you were here, but you can play your classic games with the Wiimote, just gottsta turn it sideways.
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