Finally Got A Wii
I randomly happened to be in Best Buy this afternoon with Julian and we were wandering past the shelves of Wii games.
“Hey dad! There’s a Diego! game here, can we get it?”
“Sorry little dude, that’s a Wii game and we don’t have one those consoles.”
Cue the little dude doing the “I’m sad, you suck” thing, when I look down and see about ten boxes of what look like consoles. Note that I’ve never seen a Wii console retail box before - noone ever has them…
I pick it up. I feels heavy.
I look at it. It does indeed appear to actually be one of those fabled console units.
“Little dude! You’re in luck! Go grab a second controller, a second nunchuck and a component AV connector while you’re at it!”.
“Dad, I lost you at ‘controller’.”
“Just grab that Diego game, I’ll get the rest.”
And we left the store fully loaded with Nintendo gear…
Diversion: This evening I set everything up and am now determined to get a new A/V receiver for the home. Our TV our has one HDMI input, but tons of component ones. I really want it to switch the video signal, so I’m investigating something that can take 2 HDMI inputs, 3 components inputs, a smattering of optical and regular audio and just switch it all for me.
Any suggestions?
Anyhow, this little game unit rocks! I recognize I’m over a year late, but playing tennis and baseball, etc… with a motion sensitive controller is awesome. I also had a lot of fun creating Miis for all the family..
Little dude is going to have so much fun.
When I let him have a turn, that is.
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Try the Onkyo TX-SR605; the newer model (606) has 4 HDMI inputs, but only 2 component.
Hate to say it, but...I told you so......the Wii Kicks ass.
Get the Wii fit, my kids love the soccer(heading), ski jumping(visions of Eddie the Eagle) and believe it or not, they like the jogging. And now.....Rock Band too. Get Tiger's Golf while at the shop next time.
We love the thing. It's so small & portable, we even take it on the road sometimes. Next, I'm gonna hook the thing up to my truck's DVD player, and play Guitar Hero around he camp fire(we'll test the wii-mote distance)....yeehaw.
As you were...
DW1