Well, there’s much excitement in my house and I haven’t seen my three men (well, the front of them anyway) since yesterday evening when the new Nintendo Wii! arrived. I know they’re Japanese or whatever, but what possessed Nintendo to name their new invention after a bodily function (oh yes, it’s pronounced ‘wee’) is beyond me. I’ve got a vague recollection of this happening before in foreign climes – you know, a Danish pack of biscuits whose name translated into English is ‘turds’ or something…but I digress…
Actually, even though I’m a self confessed games-hater, (my worst nightmare is being coerced into a large family Christmas game of Monopoly, although there was that game of Twister with my Dad’s partner but that’s another story. My oldest is turned into an aggressive two-headed avaricious monster by Monopoly – he would sell his Grandmother for a hotel on Mayfair) I did end up having a little go and jolly good it is too. My men were all playing some sort of sports package and I was persuaded to have a go at ten pin bowling. The controller thing is like a little TV remote control and basically you just pretend that you’re bowling a ball down the alley whilst holding the little remote thing in your hand. It interprets your actions and bowls the ball down the alley. Not just clever but rather addictive and soon we were locked in a fierce battle. Hubby’s first strike nearly caused a riot and poor B nearly fell off her sofa in shock. The other very entertaining one was boxing, where you hold one of these wireless controllers in each hand and ‘jab’ at your opponent. The Wii interprets your movements as punches to your oppo and you have to keep your guard up otherwise you get smacked in the chops too. #2 was worryingly good at this and knocked his opposite number out cold in the first round
I do think they could have given it a better name though – maybe the Nintendo Wehay! Or the Nintendo Woohoo, rather than the Wii! I think I’ll email Mr Nintendo and suggest a change of name. Apparently we were lucky and they’re quite difficult to get hold of. I might get up in the night tonight and stick in on Ebay…mwah ha ha.
