Wii had fun

December 18th, 2006 - 11:27am

Yesterday, Justine and I decided to pay a visit to see Dad and Cheryl (it’s also close to USA Foods, which is no coincidence). Seeing another opportunity to evangelise the Wii to yet more unsuspecting people, I packed my Wii into it’s bag (that I got “free” for pre-ordering, but didn’t think I’d ever use) and took it along.

Sadly, Cheryl has done a bit of damage to her back, which makes playing games like Wii Sports a bit of a stretch, so she sat this one out, but we gave her a great show looking like complete fools.

Dad loved playing Wii Sports and was able to compete with me on a pretty level playing field. That’s probably one of the best things about the Wii (or at least a well-developed game on the Wii), it removes the difficulty for non-gamers of having to co-ordinate moving a joystick while pressing a button which has no bearing on what’s happening on screen.

We must have played for 3 or 4 hours and it only took a few short minutes in each of the the Wii Sports or Wii Play games for Dad to get the hang of it, though most of the Monkey Ball mini games are dreadful and not worth mentioning.

Everyone who’s played the Wii thus far (admittedly not a huge amount of people) has expressed interest in owning their own in the future; it seems to be hitting it’s mark as far as demographic is concerned. Wii Sports alone seems like it could be a massive system seller, and it’s a pack-in game (then again, Super Mario Bros was too)!

Tags: gaming, outing, wii