I guess the stars, sun, moons, planets, and whatever else could be lined up, were lined up on Monday this week when I made a trip to Best Buy to pick up a pair of Shure earphones. After finding the earphones I decided to take a lap of the store to see if there was anything else that turned my crank. I headed over to the video game section, and was blown away to see about 9 Nintendo Wii boxes sitting there!
My first reaction was, “I’m totally getting this thing,” but then after adding up the cost etc, I started thinking that if I’m going to blow that kind of cash, that I should just get a PS3 instead since it doubles as a blu-ray player, and that’s something that I’ll eventually need.
I decided that I may need a little consultation on the purchase, so I spoke with the girlfriend who just about flipped when I told her that it was in stock. Obviously she wanted it, so I went and grabbed one, along with another Wiimote, Nunchuck, and some component cables (which turned out to be shit… word of advice, buy the Nintendo ones instead of the $20 cheaper knockoffs… they are garbage).
Before leaving the store I mentioned the purchase to a buddy who told me to grab one for him as well. He said that finding a Wii in a store is like finding diamonds, and demanded that I pick one up for him. We were wondering if they would enforce the one per customer rule at the cash register, but the fat little dude with red curly hair didn’t seem to care at all. 2 Wii’s in hand, I walked out a happy customer.
So far I’ve got to say that this thing is a blast. I picked up Mario Kart and that thing is a good time… the online games are pretty tough as there are apparently secrets about the game that I’ve yet to discover, but in time kiddies, in time. I also picked up Wii Fit, but haven’t opened it up yet. Maybe I’ll give it a rip today and get my yoga on.
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