From a Salt Lake Tribune column entitled Diving into the video game experience:
This Christmas, my wife and I bit the bullet and got the boys (and, truth be told, ourselves) a Wii. The nickname we chose for the console (the game asks for one during the set-up process, if you’ve never had one of your own) was “the beast.” After a week, “the meth lab” might have been more appropriate. Geez Louise, this thing is addictive.
Author Sean Means, who says he hasn’t gamed since Atari, cites Wii Sports, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Lego Harry Potter as some of his favorites.
Remember the first time you played Wii?
Yeah, since first day of sale, was awesome, still I remember that feeling.
..Hard to belive its been four plus years. What a great feeling it was the first time. Can hardly wait until March, when it happens all over again!
His Wii asked for a nickname? Mine didn't. Or I guess he assumes we are supposed to know what "the game" is.
Hey, what happened to the favicon coin? 🙁
@Chelsea: It asks for one when you set it up, you'll literally (probably) never see it again, it's easy to forget about.
Also, if I decide not to name my 3DS some version of Philip (as I've done with all my electronics since my ipod) I now have two new names to choose from.
yes i remember moving my whole arm trying to move the little hand
wow that's late.
I guess the blue ocean is still being tapped but playing twilight princess and wii sports back in the cold winter of 2006 remains some of my best gaming memories
First time I actually played it was at a Game Stop. They had it a couple days before the system went on sale. It was the fact that as I twisted the control that the hand icon would twist with me that really blew my mind.
See? Wii is still selling to new people, even if Patcher and "the industry" says that the Wii is doomed…
I remember it pretty well, especially that what impressed me the most was that feedback from the remote when I hovered over the on-screen keyboard and icons… try to beat that, Kinect!!
Liverpool 2006 at a game stop, i felt like it was the first time I played a videogame at all… snifff…those days…
patcher just says what he wants and turns it into nintendo should do this and that look nintendo will have at least 4 big wii games no one has heard of 4 next year its there new way dont spill the beans untill its fairly close to release aswell as Last story/Pikimin3/DQ10/Conduit2/Grinder/Driver SF/Kirbys epic yarn UK/the only thing nintendo would do right in doing is firmware update to 576p that would keep it ED/HD but offer a higher resolution 4 devs and wouldnt take much of a hit in terms of pushing pixels ect
The first two and a half days I had the system at launch (about 57 hours), I played the Wii over 30+ hours.
Only console I own this generation, do have a gaming PC, but it's been a blast the whole way through.
My column on waiting in line for the Wii reservations is still way better from long ago, lol
Game Stop, Puerto Rico 12:00 am….hell yeah I remember. I took my 5 yrs old baby girl who loves Zelda, and I have the picture to prove it. Still have that sweet main screen sound stock in my head since that night. LOVE IT.