Enjoy. Nintendo makes some damn slick hardware, even though they can’t come up with good names for it.

The childish peals of laughter from upstairs (which you would hear if you were, um, here) would be from mrs tbogg.

Does the lack of paired adjectives in the reference to Mrs. TBogg signify anything other than the author’s weariness after an exhaustive search for Wii-dom?

Two words: Raving Rabbids.

Best. Game. Ever.

Bought it.

I can warmly recommend Super Mario Galaxy. It’s so good I now need glasses. Honestly.

i’ve been trying since November to find one… little fuckers are elusive.

Just be careful … the day we got ours, my daughter also got a nice egg-sized lump on her forehead from wandering into the Wii zone.

You might also want to get a couple of those padded condom/glove things for the controllers in case one goes flying …

*Oddly not a meditation on the Zamyatin novel just in case you felt misled.

Yeah, but Yevgeny never got to play “Indy 500 Legends”, either.

(What that has to do with ANYTHING I have no idea. I’m just bein’ jealous. Pfeh! Fie on thee, state-of-the-art game console owner! I’m going to have to go play “Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever” on my GBA out of spite.)

Not to be a downer or anything, but we’ve replaced our Wii 3 times since last June. The first time it wouldn’t “take” the game into it, the second time it would freeze mid-game and this last time we had the dreaded “disc read error”.

I will say, however, that Nintendo Customer Support has been great. The first two times we replaced it through the “rapid replacement” system where they send a new (refurbished) unit to you and you ship the broken one back (no charge) and this last time they recommended that we send it in for repair. They send a Fed Ex label (email) and then repair or replace the unit and send it back, again, no charge. The only downside is that you can’t save your progress on Guitar Hero III so you have to start all over again…

We’ve had hours of enjoyment with the thing, and family bowling tournaments are a semi-regular event in the house.

I finally pulled the trigger on a PS3. MLB ‘08 The Show is undoubtedly the best baseball game I’ve ever played. Though I was a little pissed when my created player in Road to the Show mode was traded from the Angels to the Phillies. You think the loyalty I showed to the organization would be rewarded, but like so much human chattel, they shipped me east. Bastards.

You knew that those Wii controllers have vibrators built into them, didn’t you? Oh sure, they call it a “rumble feature” but we know better.

Much as I liked bowling and raving rabbids, I’ve been spending more time on my PS3 as of late. Better racing games (Motorstorm and Burnout Paradise are great). Plus it warms up the room quite nicely on cool nights.

Hitler bought a Wii after he gott banned from Microsoft Live:

Part I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYvZnTFpip0

Part II:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFoM0Y2DqL4