This is a video game
Day by Day November 26th, 2007I liked Atari. I even liked the original Nintendo. The Super Nintendo was almost too much for me, and by the time Play Sation came along I was lost.
The games got to be WAY too complicated for me. There were too many buttons, too many combinations of buttons, too much happening. It wasn’t fun any more.
But this week I was in Calgary, and played some games on the Wii game system with my kids. Now this is more like it.
Two buttons. Not three buttons, no combination moves (push up twice while holding the b and d button and pressing the bottom fire button), no frustration.
In fact, in some games ou don’t even have to press a button. You just wave that little controller around in the air, and you’re playing a game.
Simple. Easy. Fun.
And it’s exercise. I was worn out after a game of tennis. I needed the break at the 7th inning stretch in baseball. And Boxing was gonna kill me one way or the other. I needed I shower. I was stinky and sweaty. (Smart remarks are not necessary here 
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I don’t really mean to sound like a commercial. But it was the first video game thingy that I’ve played in years that I didn’t feel like a bumbling idiot. After all, it’s just a game, and it’s supposed to be fun. Not a challenge.
So Santa, if you have a leftover Wii at the end of your journey on Christmas Eve, you can leave it at my house.
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
If you really wanna get exercise,I guess they say the dace mania,or whatever its called,for the PS2 really is an arobic work out.I haven’t tried it,but I know some that have.Apparently,its a mat you lay on the floor,has colors on it,and you probably know what you have to do.Kinda like twister,but much faster.Move your feet to the same colors on the screen.
I have the Guitar hero one.But we dont use the guitar most of the time.Think when we move on to the more difficult level we will have to tho.It will be more difficult using like six buttons at a time.
February 19th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
So Lee, did Santa have a Wii left over on Christmas Eve . . . I don’t think I ever asked you!!