By: Brett

This weekend I had my first experience with the Nintendo Wii. At first, I was very sceptical about how much I would enjoy it. From what I had seen it was just a bunch of cheesy characters where you’re just moving your hands around, standing in one place, and just something that didn’t look like it would interest me all that much. Why would I want to play something where the graphics are 10 times worse than my Xbox 360. I have some greatest looking games for the Xbox and moving down to something like the Wii just didn’t seem to make sense.

My boss invited some people over to his house this weekend. He got his son the Nintendo Wii for Christmas. I seems to always be praising how much fun and life like this machine really is. I always kinda laughed and just agreed for the fact that he’s my boss. At first, the idea of just playing Wii wasn’t that great but then he added in some beer and wings and so there I was this weekend, over at his house.

The first game I experienced was the tennis game. I played his 10 year old son and was quickly defeated 3 games to none in roughly 5 minutes. I thought well this system is everything I thought it was and then something less. I didn’t actually think it could be that I totally sucked at tennis. Hell this was a video game, it doesn’t know how bad I am. I consider myself a pretty good video gamer, but yes I am horrible at tennis. The next game was bowling. The first two frames I went gutter ball, six, eight, gutter ball. Then I started to pick up on it a bit. I started counting boards and spinning the ball. After that first game (I believe it was a 168) I started to get a hang of it and it seriously felt like I was at the bowling alley. The game reacted to every little detail. If I didn’t put enough spin on it, the ball wouldn’t break and if I spun my wrist to much the ball would sweep across the lane. I could throw the ball slow or fast just with the basic motion of actual bowling. It was so responsive that I lost the idea of playing a video game and felt like I was actually bowling.

We played about 90 percent bowling and mixed in some baseball and tennis. Baseball is probably the least realistic but still enjoyable. The highlight of the night was clobbering my boss’ 10 year old son in three rounds of boxing. Luckily, I wore sweat pants and a t-shirt because after that I seriously needed a shower. That was by far the best workout I have and will ever get from playing video games.

The next morning my shoulders were flaming like I just worked out for 24 hours straight. I’m seriously considering getting one to accompany my gym membership. Two thumbs up to the Nintendo Wii and bringing a completely different experience to the video game market.

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