Just a quick story/update for the site (more coming very soon, we PROMISE). Sauer and I are admitted Nintendo fanboys (One a little more so than the other) and of course got swept up into the Wii Fit hype. The problem is, we didn't get excited about it until very recently, thus neither of us pre-ordered it. Of course, that didn't stop us from wanting it day one, so I woke up at the crack of 9 or so and began my foray into the wild and wonderful world of soccer moms that is the Wii Fit launch day.
Got to a Toys R Us at 9:30 (which was when they opened according to an out of date website listing) and saw a line of 20 people in line, each and every one a middle aged woman with a wedding ring, most speaking of their excitement over Nintendo getting their horrible little children off the couch and moving for once. I kept quite for a while, listening to the crazy amounts of strange misinformation being tossed around about the current state of video games. I wasn't here to flex my geek cred to a group of bored housewives and would have been perfectly fine with remaining silent and firing beams of hate in their general directions. Then one insanely attractive housewife spoke up, taking on the silly claims of over the top nudity in games like Mass Effect, dispelling that old Laura Croft nude code myth and even talking about gaming sites like Kotaku. My icy cold heart melted a little when she admitted she was an avid gamer in line for herself, not her hell-spawn of a child, and we exchanged gamertags like the mega geeks we are, promising to murder one another in Call of Duty 4 at some point in the near future.
A few minutes later a zombified store employee came out and said they only had 12 units to sell to those without pre-orders so the hunt was on for the rest of us. Gamer Mom let me know she'd already been to 3 Target stores which were sold out, so I drove around to about 5 different stores finding out that I was just a little to late at each and every one of them. Wii Fit mania is in full effect and I found myself hating bored housewives more and more by the second. Just as I was going to give up, I stopped in a Walmart store and managed to grab the last two copies (one for myself, one for Lt. Sauer) much to the chagrin of the middle aged boar standing behind me.
(Please note this is not a picture of either of us. We only wish we were this awesome)
Expect our impressions pretty soon, as well as a couple GTA IV reviews (now that we've both finished the game), some Live Arcade reviews (Assault Heroes 2, Pinball FX, and Penny Arcade) and probably more pointless stories like this one.
Mahalo,
Duke