Nintendo Wii
I’ve wanted one of these things since before they were even released. Now, several months later, my terrific wife was awesome enough to find out that Best Buy was getting a bunch in and all we had to do was wake up early and wait for it this past Sunday. As soon as we got home, I set it up and we started playing Wii Sports and played all of the games in it: Tennis, Golf, Baseball, Bowling, and Boxing. If you aren’t familiar with how the Wii works, the controller is motion sensative, so in tennis, you have to swing it to hit the ball, in golf, you have to do a full swing to hit it or a short little swing to putt. We also got Wii Play which includes a second controller and offers us another 9 or so mini games whose purpose are to teach you how to use the controller to its fullest and has some crazy games such as cow racing, some sort of tank war game, duck-hunt-esque target practice, fishing, and a few others. The game that I’m hooked on right now is the golf game included with Wii Sports, but I can’t wait until we start building up our collection and get games like Super Monkey Ball, which was great on the GameCube and looks even better on the Wii, and possible a better golf game like Tiger Woods golf.
