Wii Fever

Over the last two weeks i've been involved in a personal mission: to find a Nintendo Wii. It's been a while since i bought a new video game system. almost 10 years, to be exact. But this year i could resist no longer, and being a longtime fan of Nintendo ("classically trained," as they say, on the original NES), i decided the Wii was they system i needed. Unfortunately, actually getting one proved quite difficult. two weekends ago i scoured just about every big-box store in the greater Albany area for one and came up dry. Multiple trips to GameStop, Target, Best Buy, and even the Nintendo store in Rockefeller center here in NYC also yielded nothing. I had a chance to play it for the first time last monday and that only made me want one that much more- it is so fun. Finally, last friday, I chanced into the Nintendo store again and there it was: an enormous line of customers leading to the counter, where the cashiers had stacks of boxes of the system piled up next to each register.

The wait was worth it. The sports games alone are endlessly amusing, and the boxing in particular provides you with a shockingly exhausting workout. Or maybe i'm just shockingly out of shape. in either case, I can tell that i'm probably not going to get through that stack of books i new years-resolved to read any time soon, and there are already plans in the works for a Shore Fire mini-tournament on the Wii. In the words of Ferris Bueller, "if you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up."