Lord Gonchar

Wii has kind of become our little “family thing” to do since Santa was kind enough to drop one of at our house. It really is a simple, easy to enjoy system. With the right game selection (Wii Sports, Raving Rabbids, Wario Ware) you get easy-to-learn gameplay that really is pretty evenly matched for ages 5 to 105 and all experience levels.

And it doesn’t even stop there. Tonight we must’ve blown a good 45 minutes challenging each other’s best times doing the ‘puzzle’ thing in the photo channel. We also dig the new Everybody Votes channel as a family. It’s admittedly dumbed down and trite, but something we can all do together. The simple poll questions, the predictions, the data, the statistics – it’s all easily digestible by the kids (ages 5 & 9) and still mildly interesting enough to keep my wife and I involved. Even the damn Mii channel is a fun group activity – we’ll spend time trying to make little fictional character, famous people or people we know. The kids still check the Mii parade every day to see if anyone new came along. (we’re up to 29 in our parade)

And hell, the fact that my wife even picks up the remotes and plays, let alone plays well amazes me.

I just need more people I know to score one and swap out friend codes. (more Mii migrations, send messages and photos, and supposedly online gaming in the near future)

Basically we spent this evening just wasting time together with the Wii and it was fun as usual. (I’m such a dad…)

Speaking of which, I think I need to get on there now and check out the Virtual Console downloads…I do believe I saw Kid Icarus available. (I had that one way back in the NES days)