So in the midst of the insanity that is the mall at Christmas time I actually managed to have some hands on time with the Nintendo Wii. Whilst the wife was looking in an accessories store for various items of cuteness for my little niece I handed in my license at the desk at EB Games to get my Wii-Mote.
The current game up for testing was the arcade racer, “Excite Truck”. I must have looked like an absolute retard attempting to turn the Wii-mote in a way to get it to make sense as a controller for the game. At first I pointed it like a magic wand and I kept driving in circles. Then I tilted it right and left to no avail. Once I figured out you had to place it perpendicular to the screen I was getting somewhere. I then found the "Gas" key and away I went, at first it seemed a little awkward as I determined I had to lean the stick away from the turn to complete it. I guess the EB Games guy had just about enough of my stupidity and informed me, "Sir, you’re holding the controller backward."
Thoroughly mortified I flipped the controller around and now I was really away to the races. I was flying over hills, whipping around hair pin turns and all around getting my race on. If I said that this wasn’t as fun as all hell I’d be lying. I could so see someone like my Dad being able to play this game, and my dad is still intimidated by our VCR from the 80s. I gotta say the horsepower of the Nintendo Wii is underwhelming at best as my old clunker of a computer could still kick the ever-living crap out if it graphics-wise. I don’t think I’ll be running out any time soon to grab one of these but I think Nintendo did something very smart with this system.
I played with my wii in public
