Nintendo has made my weekend
Shopping List:
There you go. That’s what I spent my money on. Now, I had the Nintendo Wii. I got it back around Thanksgiving when they were rare and kept it back in case I needed a great Christmas present at the last minute. The Wii Fit though I just got today and have set it up, input my height and let it weigh me and figure my BMI (too high but I think it’s doing it wrong) and then set a weight loss goal.
I also got Pokemon Platinum which has nothing to do with fitness, but everything to do with a really fun game. Now, if you’ve played Diamond or Pearl Platinum’s going to look really familiar and maybe I wouldn’t buy it new unless you were addicted, but if you played neither Diamond or Pearl then Platinum‘s a great way to get back into Pokemon.
The Wii and Wii Fit can both be hard to get out in the world. We went to two Best Buy’s and three Game Stops before finally finding it in a little Mom & Pop game store in Ames today so if you want either the Wii or the Wii Fit make your life easier and order it from Amazon. Show me some love and buy it through those links and help get me some affiliate lovin’ too if you want.
This isn’t a paid ad, both are GREAT fun. (Boom Blox
The hard part is I work on the road a lot so some weeks I won’t have access to the wii for exercise etc. While gone I’ll do the exercises that are in Sparkpeople (free remember?) and walk but I’ll miss the wii!
PS: Weekends will tend toward more personal posts than others. I won’t say there will be no management type posts on the weekend and I won’t say there won’t be any personal types in the week, but I’m going to try and focus them that way. Work in work week, and personal on weekends. If I bore you as a person, feel free to Mark all as Read on Mondays. My feelings won’t be hurt in the least.
PPS: Very excited about the Wii Fit. About to exercise on it now. I’ll be gone for much of this next week and the following one, but I’ll get back to you all on how I keep up with it. I know you’re glued to your collective seats!
The Nintendo has made my weekend by Rich Griffith, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
March 29th, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Actually since last winter season I’ve seen Wiis everywhere, Best Buy, Gamestop, ect. The Wii Fit seems to be the hard thing to find, but I’ve found it a few times. I keep saying the next time I see it I’ll buy it, but I never have the money for it when I do see it. I actually bought something really cool today you might be interested in hearing about, but I don’t know if you want it on your blog. Email me for more info.
As for the Wii, money’s been tight this year so far, but prior to that I think I managed to buy every worthwhile game on the system
If you have friends, my number one recomendation is Mario Party 8. We always seem to be playing that, so much so we’ve worn it out after two years and need a number 9 already. Raging Rabbits TV Party is fun too, but it gets old a bit fast I think, more of a budget title IMO, but worth buying once you get bored of Mario Party. I also love Samba De Amigo. And of course there’s Smash Bros, but I have issues getting people to play it with me, and it isn’t that huge a leap from Melee, just more stuff added in. For two-player fun Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (if you have the guns) is lots of fun and so is the Konami soccer game, can’t remember the name.
Pretty much everything from Nintendo kicks ass. Mario Soccer is another one I’d recommend as a huge step up from its Gamecube counterpart. Not so much on Mario Baseball though, which just feels like they added motion controls to the gamecube game. The gamecube game was good, the motion controls work, but the game isn’t better or worse for them, just different, and I wouldn’t complain if it were a budget title like Mario Tennis with the tacked on motion controls, but it isn’t.
Also for one player fun Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition is one of my all time favorite games. Pointing and shooting is just so much fun. Also No More Heroes, despite mixed reviews, blows you away with moments of pure coolness. I did get Chocobo’s Dungeon a bit ago, but haven’t had time to play it, but I do like the Magic Dungeon games, I fell in love with Torneko on my PSX. They’re rougesque, but they took a turned based method as opposed to Diablo’s real time. If you’re thinking about a game and want to know about it, let me know. If I don’t have it, I’ve probably at least heard about it.
PS – You still have the old page up at Icharus Flew. You might want to take that down or redirect as it no longer updates. Also it has this darker look to it and every time I see it I assume you’re dead (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I HATE THE NAME Wii
Stupid
April 7th, 2009 at 1:54 AM
@Fred
How so? The name seems to work well. The Wii hardware was a huge marketing success for Nintendo in every way, expanding the market into previously untapped areas and hugely outselling all of their competitors. The system name is short, simple, original, easy to remember, and is a basic exclamation of joy. It doesn’t follow older naming structures such as combining words that are synonyms for playing games and a box (x-box, playstation, gamecube) or naming it after the company that makes it (NES, SMS, NeoGeo), and it’s not a nonsensical name considering what the product does (Jaguar, Dreamcast).
All in all I think the product name was a well planned and excellent decision on Nintendo’s part and contributed, at least partially, to the high and continued success of the system.
November 7th, 2009 at 8:51 PM
We got a wii a couple months back and we love it now I am hoping that my hubby will get me the wii fit game for it.