Monday
Belatedly, I joined the craze and had a go on one of my friend's Wii games the other weekend. Terrific stuff: I played the golf, tennis, ten-pin bowling and shooter games. Bloody marvellous. You do need to get a large-enough television to make it work; unfortunately, I don't really want to mess up my sitting room by putting a huge plasma screen on the wall, but some of my friends seem to be less squeamish.
The main downside, I find, is that if you are playing this game and have not stretched and warmed up properly first, you can actually do a bit of damage. The next morning, when I woke up, the left side of my back was quite painful. This is what happens to a 41-year-old wealth management geek who has not spent enough time doing sport for real. Time to turn off the technology and put on the training shoes.
A link to some Wii-related injuries. I wait for the first politician to try and bleat about the "Wii menace".
You'll be wanting Wii Fit that comes out this Friday then...
Posted by Stray Taoist at April 21, 2008 08:39 AM
I haven't gamed for ages and was thinking of getting back into my heavy, serious, PC games like Civ and SimCity and flight sims.
I have always regarded Nintendo as being for kids but the Wii looks good. I'm almost tempted.
Posted by Nick M at April 21, 2008 11:55 AM
Nick M: If you want heavy, serious and a flight sim, may I suggest Falcon: Allied Force. You can even get fit lugging the manual round if you print it out (struggling to stay on topic here).
Posted by Rob Fisher at April 21, 2008 12:39 PM
I bought a wii on friday (and I'm sufficently plebian to have a big telly :)
It's great but omg my right arm is throbbing from wii tenis. Fat, Fifty and Foolish I maybe but it's terrific fun.
Posted by DavidNcl at April 21, 2008 05:26 PM
To MikeG
For most games it doesn't matter, for games like Tennis and Bowling etc. you tell the Wii what hand you are using before you start playing.
Posted by Jason at April 21, 2008 09:06 PM
Links are in the Engadget site, but in case anyone missed 'em...
http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/
Classic.
Broken TVs seem the most common problem.
Posted by Robert at April 22, 2008 07:05 AM
The best video game currently on the market? The Half-Life mod called Counter-Strike.
It's an FPS so probably of little interest to cerebral types like yourselves, but I refuse to let a thread nominally centred on video gaming to go without a mention for CS.
Over 7 years old the game is still run on 2 x more servers than all other MMFPS combined.
Fire in the hole!
Posted by JezB at April 22, 2008 09:56 AM
Lol! The Wii is standard definition so an HDTV will just expose blemishes. The larger the TV the worse the quality! It works fine on any size TV.
Posted by Tom at April 26, 2008 11:05 PM
