My roommate has just purchased a new plasma wide screen, the Panasonic TH 37PV70, and decided that it was time to buy a Wii, to make optimal use of his new screen. Because watching one of the 300+ channels of digital that we have is sooo 2006... Time for some gaming 2.0 therefor, enter the Wii!
We bought a premium kit with extra controllers and an extra game. But the Wii comes standard with four Nintendo games, e.g. tennis, golf, bowling and boxing. This set of games we played last night.
First we tried playing some tennis, after six hundred years, in which we miraculously succeeded. Tennis on a Wii is fairly easy, the console makes no difference between a fore- and a back hand, your Mii just decides which hand should be played. Although the console make sit easier to play, it's not less fun. Especially when you're doubling, the fun increases drastically. People walking on the other side of the street stopped as they passed by, watching us Roland Garros-mentality driven people trying to break a tie.
After tennis, we decided to start boxing. My gf started the first round, against an opponent that – from the looks of it – was working a 9 – 5 on a local insurance company billing department. He was surprisingly tough, though. My gf had to give up half way the second round. Don't mess those billing clerks, I say. I stepped in.
Now, I know that everybody agrees on the Wii making an excellent instrument for obese children who just game all day, eating chips and not getting their exercises. But the Wii also provides for adults trying to watch their diets by eating just south European foods, avoiding King- and Mac Drives when they get in to their car and jumping on their bicycles whenever the rain is not pouring down. When the match was finally over, my chest was heaving, my heart pounding and my back was wet.
Needless to say I beat the light out of this fuckers eyes, though . . . .
In short, the Wii is fun on gaming, its a very 2.0 console where interaction between players themselves is concerned, and is very, very for people of all ages who thing they're missing out on exercises.
