Life is grand

A friend very kindly lent me his Wii for the night and Fi I spent a few hilarious hours cursing like sailors while prancing about our living room. Firstly I have to admit Fi kicked my arse in everything but the Wii Play Duckshoot. She KO’ed me easilly in Wii Sports Boxing, thumped me in Bowling (even though she has never played ten pin bowling in real life while I have done it many times) and even beat me in Golf (I birdied two holes and then double bogied the last. I even got a Chip In shot on the second hole. Argh!) I thought I was doing well in the Cow Racing but somehow Fi always ended up with more points. Who knew cows jumped?

The Wii Play Laser Hockey is just mad, mad, mad! My tactic of carefully directing the puck with subtle movements was completely defeated by Fi’s crazy tactic of swinging the Wii controller in mad circles at a frantic pace. We were literally rolling on the couch laughing at that.

We both sucked in the Baseball game only managing to get to first base once each. I hit so many foul balls I doubt my player was facing the right way. Excite Trucks was fun too though I swear the music in the background is the theme from CSI.

All in all the Wii is an awesome amount of fun.

Crikey, the Nintendo Wii is seriously fun. A co-worker had one upstairs and I spent a few minutes playing tennis. It took me a few minutes to stop worrying and just start swinging the controller like a real tennis racquet. The next thing I knew balls were going over the net, serves were being made and it was so natural. When you make contact with the ball the controller in your hand even rumbles giving you some real tactile feedback.

I then watched as two co-workers beat each other senseless in a game of boxing, all with two controllers and some deft moves.

XBox 360, Playstation 3, start running for your lives boys ’cause the Wii is what you aren’t; fun.