blog.regalbear.com » nintendo http://blog.regalbear.com the internet is standing by.... Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:02:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 More mariokart http://blog.regalbear.com/2008/04/29/more-mariokart/ http://blog.regalbear.com/2008/04/29/more-mariokart/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:30:12 +0000 drew http://blog.regalbear.com/2008/04/29/more-mariokart/ Continue reading →]]> played again last night while the kid watched on she digs it for the first couple races then gets antsy.

also played online 12 people at once, worked without a hitch no lag people from everywhere. neat.

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Last week the family procured a Nintendo Wii system.(thanks terri, eric and johnathan!) It took me until thursday to play it since Emliy surprisingly doesn’t enjoy watching me meticulously unbox new electronics and move old systems around (sorry gamecube) rewire bits and generally set things up in a neat and orderly manner, tho I’ll have to admit that my solution for the systems in the cabnet beside the TV has its faults the excitement of the Wii kind of overshadowed everything else.

Let me say that this system is a dream to set up. 3 sets of cords to plug in, the RCA, Wii sensor bar and the powerblock. The system itself is quite small and takes up literally no space when used vertically in the provided stand. With the Wii set up on wednesday, thursday was my first play night.

I’m going to have to give it up to nintendo while the system boots fast the one thing I noticed is that there is no launch screen, I was so accustomed to the Gamecube start up screen that I was really looking forward to seeing the Wii start up. Sadly I’m only greeted with a warning not to smash myself or others around me.

The menu system that was developed for the Nintendo DS are in my opinion brilliant. Simple clean and to the point. You can navigate everything so simply. This still holds true to the Wii and while I would have loved to see the two systems share common design cues I can easily be swayed. Set up consists of naming your system entering the date and time. Online set up was simple since I have an open network at home it picked up the wireless signal no problem and I found myself with a set up and newly updated system in about 15 min.

So far the system is great, both Jen and I are highly addicted to bowling while golf seems to be our least favorite sport. I’m getting the hang of boxing but it will take some time getting used to and figuring out all the combinations for the different punches, for seemingly simple concepted games there are alot of intricate things built into each of the sports.

I’m attempting to play the wii for a half hour each day to see if it affects my fitness level, I’ve been bitten by the Wii workout bug and while I type this with the sorest body I’ve had for a long time I’ve been playing through the pain to try and keep my wii sports age low, after an injury filled weekened I’m back up to 35 while on friday i was as low as 26.

we’ll definitly see how this thing goes.

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