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Wii adventure
1.21.2007 10:45 PM \| Link	Since I'm a Nintendo fan and I love innovative games, I wanted a Nintendo Wii almost as soon as I heard about them, but I decided to let the Christmas rush go by. Since then I was just hoping to buy one on Amazon, but after my pal Chris and I read all of the rumors about this weekend's Wii "re-launch", we decided to camp-out and try to get one. Here's my good news, bad news, good news story about my Wii adventure! Chris and I decided to drive around and take a look at possible stores around 10:00 PM. The plan was to keep checking things out until a line formed, then get in the line. We expected this would happen sometime after midnight, but when we got to Circuit City, there were already two people planted in their chairs, with a cooler of drinks and a boom box! We sat in the car for a little bit, and a third camper showed up. So, we knew we had to stake our claim right away. After we setup our chairs, the five of us happened to notice that they had just posted a sign on the Circuit City door that said, "Number of Wiis at this store: 5". We couldn't believe it - only five Wiis were there, and there were already five of us waiting at 10:00 PM! So, we pretty much knew we were going to get one, and the wait began. Overall, the wait was pretty fun. Even though it had been raining earlier, we didn't see a drop during the whole night. However, we did have to make through a 35-degree temperature night! We played some Mario Kart on Nintendo DS - one of the other guys had a DS, so we had some a nice three-way races. Our fellow campers were really nice guys - definitely crazy college students (so crazy that they did some insane shopping cart acrobatics in the parking lot), but nice enough to offer us drinks and conversation. The music from their boom box was a tremendous help - it was an all night dance party! Shawn & Bernadette drove by to visit us, and a cop stopped and chatted with us, too. I only had to pee once "in the wild", and then Starbucks opened at 6:00 AM. The worst hour was 3:00-4:00 AM, which I spent wrapped in a blanket up to my eyeballs. When the sun came up, it was fantastic! However, that's when all the other Wii-hopefuls came by, and we had to tell nearly 100 people that the store only had five (and show them the sign), which got pretty old! But at 10:00 AM, after our 12-hour wait, we got our Wiis! We went back to Chris' house and hooked his up right away, then had a blast playing Wii Sports, especially baseball and boxing! Then I went home and zonked out. Later in the evening I got up to play with my Wii, and had fun for about an hour playing with the internet features. But when I tried to load the Wii Sports disc, it made terrible whining, grinding noises, and the disc became stuck in the Wii! I think the slot loading mechanism was just faulty, but it basically meant my hard-earned Wii was a dud. I tried to stay cool, though, and I called Nintendo right away. Almost immediately they offered to send me a new one via their replacement program, and I should have it in just a few days. So, the final happy ending to my story will be when the new Wii arrives, but regardless of my little setback, I enjoyed the camping experience, and I know I'm going to love my Wii! Labels: games, wii


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