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VincentVega
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I was wondering how people who you've shown your Wiis to have reacted to them (assuming you've got one, of course!).
I set mine up downstairs on a standard Sony CRT TV and fired up Wii Sports with a couple of remotes ready and waiting.
My brother, who as far as I can remember has never played on any of my consoles in the past or shown any interest in getting one himself instantly took a shine to tennis and we had a couple of games together. He seemed really to enjoy himself and even said it was "cool" at one point. He also had a brief go at bowling. He adapted to the controls without any problem and was even showing my mum how to do things.
My mum, who last played a game in 1983 on a Tatung Einstein (i.e. ages ago) also played tennis and got to grips with it pretty quickly. She had trouble with bowling but was getting there (slowly) when the console refused to recognise the remote she was using (so I had to reset).
My dad would probably not be seen dead playing on a console nevertheless stopped and watched for a good couple of minutes and seemed somewhat amused by the rest of us waving our arms around like lunatics.
All in all, it went down very well. Nintendo, you've got a wi(i)nner here, IMHO.
Any other stories to share? Or is my family a one off?
I set mine up downstairs on a standard Sony CRT TV and fired up Wii Sports with a couple of remotes ready and waiting.
My brother, who as far as I can remember has never played on any of my consoles in the past or shown any interest in getting one himself instantly took a shine to tennis and we had a couple of games together. He seemed really to enjoy himself and even said it was "cool" at one point. He also had a brief go at bowling. He adapted to the controls without any problem and was even showing my mum how to do things.
My mum, who last played a game in 1983 on a Tatung Einstein (i.e. ages ago) also played tennis and got to grips with it pretty quickly. She had trouble with bowling but was getting there (slowly) when the console refused to recognise the remote she was using (so I had to reset).
My dad would probably not be seen dead playing on a console nevertheless stopped and watched for a good couple of minutes and seemed somewhat amused by the rest of us waving our arms around like lunatics.
All in all, it went down very well. Nintendo, you've got a wi(i)nner here, IMHO.
Any other stories to share? Or is my family a one off?