Weeee! My brother just bought a Wii!!!

[bicentennial_baby]

:bounce:

Sniffa and my bro are playing Wii Golf. Next, my brother and I are going to play the bowling game.

I know what I'll be doing all night! :woohoo:

[suninvited]

1. Be prepared to have a very sore arm tomorrow

spoken from experience !

[bbernardini]

3. Indeed. I played a lot of "Boom Blox" on Tuesday and Wednesday...

...and had trouble sleeping Wednesday night because of the pain in my "throwing" arm.

[bbernardini]

2. Wow. He actually found one?

Most people can't seem to find one anywhere. My wife very kindly bought me one from eBay a while back. Fun stuff.

[Maraya1969]

4. Are they really realistic? Because I need to exercise and my favorite

sport it tennis. I also have asthma so I don't know, (after all these years)if I could keep up on a real court.

Anyway I don't know much about this thing but if it is realistic and I can get some exercise in I would definitely buy one.

[TZ]

5. Yeah,

They are pretty good. I watched my sister play the boxing game a few months ago..She got pretty winded from it...

[Maraya1969]

7. Thanks. I think the next step is to get to an electronics store and ask them

to let me try it out. Of course that won't be until the whirling dervishes of retail leave and I can find a decent parking spot.

[Deja Q]

6. In ways they are truncated, but the physics are very good -- and it's addicting

The Wii Sports games (golf, baseball) are truncated and not full-length. Which is nice because 9 innings would bore me silly; doing 3 innings and starting over was a nice gesture.

Each sport (tennis, golf, baseball, bowling, boxing) has variants and goals (home runs, proper throwing aim, hitting targets, etc) so each variant within each game doesn't get "worn out" as quickly.

Many owners have commented that 3rd party bowling games do not match the accuracy of Wii Sports' bowling. Ditto for boxing. A shame, but at $40~$60 per game, it's saving me money for not buying...

Tennis was sedentary -- it's all arm action, you're not really running around, but it does a good job at things.

I've gathered Nintendo has or soon will come out with an extension to their controller adding more than double the accuracy. That I am looking forward to trying.

Plus, FWIW, all the games were programmed in the USA. So go on and get the lead out! :D

[Maraya1969]

8. Thanks HT. I never thought that I could play tennis sitting down

That's kind of a bummer because I want something to make me get up. But then again it is up to me.

[Deja Q]

11. Well, it can be played standing up

You just won't be bouncing around like on a real tennis court

You can still get good arm exercise from it.

And you can't do bowling sitting down. :) (unless one cheats with the controller, which I try not to do because that's cheating.)

[bigwillq]

9. Wii is awesome!

Enjoy! :hi:

[KoKo]

10. If you want real "Exercise & Performance Scores" ...I hear the Wii "FIT" is the best

extension. The rest is a lot of fun, though.

[malta blue]

12. Wii are playing Guitar Hero III right now....

Little MB was absolutely shocked that I got her a Wii for xmas.

:woohoo:

[Gormy Cuss]

13. What you'll be doing....

Wii Econometrics!!!!
:P

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[AlCzervik]

14. way fun, i love the boxing, it's fun and a workout and i love the wii fit board.

our miis are hilarious, we have one for each of us and anyone who has been a house guest and the rest are all dictators.