Finally after many days of searching, calling and bugging the crap out of various store clerks Jorma scored a Wii, (pronounced We). He’s in the den now, trying to practice using it, an endeavor that will probably take many years of staying up until 3am on Friday nights, but it looks like it’s going to be great fun. I generally don’t play video games for no other reason than my experience with Quake I, II and then III several years ago, which left me completely addicted and staying up until all hours of the morning while I worked my way through a maze of zombies with a shotgun. Don’t fool yourselves, when it comes to Quake, my skills can only be described as Bad-Ass.
At least working in the IT industry when you show up red eyed with a Big Gulp of iced coffee in hand, everyone understands when you say you’ve been up all night playing Quake. It’s easy enough to pull off an 8 hour work day, explaining to executives with six figure salaries, why they must not ever disable their virus software, when you’ve only had 4 hours of sleep. But that was then.
Since then I haven’t done much gaming. Before we had kids it was because I was busy sleeping at night to prepare for my 50+ hour work week and now that we have kids, it’s difficult to function on 4 hours of sleep.
Our children smell sleep depravation like a shark smells fear and they won’t hesitate to use it to try to drive us mad until they have their fill of cookies, or skittles, something, ANYTHING to make the whining stop. Ah, but I digress.
The Wii looks like it might actually be some fun. One, it requires movement, which I’m into since I quit smoking. At work, there is talk that our HR rep lost 15 lbs just by playing the Wii. Amazing. I’ll have to keep you all posted on whether or not I’m loving it, but prepare yourselves for the Wii jokes that will be invading the blog. Why just yesterday evening, Connor explained to Jorma, “Daddy, you are only allowed to play with your Wii. You and Mommy can play with your Wii but only after Tristan and I go to bed. Ok Daddy? Ok?” Later in the evening, he was following Jorma around yelling, “Daddy, you said you were going to share your WEED with me! Daddy, aren’t you going to share your WEED?!!!!” Look out Child Protective services, here we come.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Wii are the Champions
3 comments:
It's a pity you joined the Everdream C2 crowd a bit late. I remember having one hell of a time playing Quake II on the LAN Jorma had set up in the temp building. "Training Class", I think it was called.
Being geeks, we all downloaded our own avatars and, while Jorma went on and on about Element K, *thunk*aaaaqqqqzzzxxxxxccccxxdddddd...*
Oh, sorry, fell asleep on my keyboard.
ANYWAY, while we were supposed to be learning all about how Ben Stein sound-alikes are a bad idea at 7AM, we would be running about in some hellish ruined cityscape, fragging each other. (Heh, that sounds *so* wrong.) My avatar was Starscream. And just as in Transformers: The Movie, Starscream always died most horribly. My FPS skills... not so hot. Good times nonetheless.
Congrats on joining the Wii crowd. One of us! One of us! One of... yeah, we ought to get our Smash Brothers on soon. We can play online, and there will be much greatness. I promise to play Peach. Ask Jorma what "Playing Peach" means. Hint: Frying Pan to the face, followed by golf club = gaming joy.
As far as the WEED comment goes, I think you may have just found a way to er, mellow Connor out. Heh heh. Mellow.
(Please don't arrest me).
Chris and I bought a wii to get Guitar Hero. We are freaks! We liked it so much, we didnt want to share the guitar, so we bought another full game to get an extra guitar and then sold the 2nd game on ebay! The funniest thing of all is watching Riley play it! I play and let her wear the 2nd one so she thinks she is working it! We were watching a commercial the other day and Barracuda was playing (also on guitar hero) and she turned really fast at me and said "Mommy, whats dat sound?" I said "I dont know, what is it?" She said "Its guitar hero". We all love it!
Ok, seriously, ONE of these days we'll actually bring all the right pieces w/us so we can all play WiiFit. :D I really enjoy playing the short games like Wii play, Boom blox, Carnival games, etc. I've always been drawn to games I can walk away from, while Larry's a sucker for the never-ending RPG games. I just can't do that -- I have an internet to attend to!! ;)
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