Freezing my Wii off
Posted on December 21, 2007
Filed Under: Family, Play
Tagged: christmas, richmond, toys-r-us, wii
[Teagan - I know you’re only 6 but you can read and you know how to use the internet. If you’re reading this blog post before Christmas of 2007, if you don’t stop right now, you’re going to get into trouble.]
Ok, with that out the way…
I had an early start this morning and counted my blessings for having grown up with a grandfather that was a Virginia State Game Warden. He taught me how to dress for a cold morning. While others stood shivering and stomping their feet trying to stay warm, I was as toasty as could be while standing 6th in line outside of Toys-R-Us.
Jill, one of my wife’s co-workers, tipped us off yesterday that Toys-R-Us was getting a delivery of Wiis that would be available for sale this morning.
I snuck out of the house early and found a handful of extraordinarily friendly people already in line. One woman was buying the system for her husband who’d given up on getting one this Christmas. Two other women were picking them up for their kids. I was most pleased by the story of a recreational therapist though - she was buying one for a child, a patient, who’ll be spending this Christmas at Shelter Arms.
Me? I’m picking one up because Anitra and Teagan have been talking about getting one for a while.
Although we love our Xbox 360 and play a number of family-friendly titles together like Viva Pinata, Carcassone, and Beautiful Katamari, the number of kid-friendly games are pretty limited. What’s more, many of the children’s games on the Xbox 360 either suffer from terrible control mapping, making things way too complicated for kids, or are just flat out unengaging and not fun (Meet the Robinsons, Ratatouille, and The Bee Movie Game come to mind).
Because Wii would like to play as a family, we decided to become a multi-console household. Of course, we made that decision at the same time everyone else in the world decided to buy a Wii, which made finding one a little complicated.
Mission accomplished.
