The Nintendo Wii is pretty much kicking my butt right now.  It’s so much fun.  Who ever thought that in the days of killer graphics and ultra-complicated games, that I would be playing tons of a bowling game?  Yes, bowling.

 

If you’re not already familiar with it, the Nintendo Wii uses a remote that you wave around and the Nintendo registers your movement in 3-D space.  Nintendo also packaged the Wii with Wii Sports which includes Tennis, Baseball, Bowling, Golf and Boxing. 

 

So to bowl, you physically hold the “ball” up in front of you, and swing it like a real ball.  To golf, you actually swing it like a golf club making sure you adjust your speed and follow through.  

 

You can make little characters for yourself, called "Mii's".  As you can see in the picture above, mine looks just like me.  If you look closely you can even see George W. Bush in the background.  I made one for him (and John Kerry and some others).  You can also see Tom Bastian, who use to be the Decap Music Editor.  He sent me his "Mii" from his Wii to my Wii. 

 

So I have Zelda, which is an amazing game.  And being the spiritually mature person I am I have infused this maturity into naming my character in Zelda. 

 

Behold, the spirit of the forest speaks to me...

 

 

 

That's right I'm coming to save you.  But after another few games of bowling.

 

It really is like real bowling without all the negatives.

 

1. You don’t feel like an ashtray after one game of bowling.
2. There are no parents cussing at their kids
3. The awesome food that are reasonably priced.  And by “awesome food” I mean “old hotdogs made from goats and cigar butts”, and by “reasonably priced” I mean, “as much as a PS3.

 

And by the way.  I bowled a 237.  Try doing that with a PS3. 

 

So far Julia hasn't broken her arm bowling (like the last time she went bowling), but I have hit myself in the face with the wii-mote.  That should count for something.