Wii'd on 4/20

Alternate titles to this post:
Wii're Ready to Believe You.
It's the end of the world as Wii know it.
All Wii are saying is give peace a chance.
Wii all live in a Yellow Submarine.
(The puns alone are worth it)

I've been loyal to Mr. Miamoto's little video game company for a while. I've had two different models of Game Boy, plenty of Pokemon paraphernalia, an N64, a Link action figure, a Gamecube, and now two more consoles to the family, both purchased in the same week. Here are the happy totals:

Monday, April 16: $25

• Super Nintendo system
• two controllers
• a Super Game Boy to connect Game Boy games
• Games
  
• Super Mario World
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Super Mario Kart
  
• Super Ghouls n' Ghosts
• Nickelodeon's AAAAH! Real Monsters!

Friday, April 20: $385

• the Wii
• two controllers
• one nunchuck addition to the controller
• Games
• Wii Sports
• Wii Play
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
  

Everybody Wiins! The roommates (3 of the 4) pitched in some money, which I will gradually be paying off in order to gain complete control, and not just a majority share. And this thing is fun. Wii Sports alone is a riot (home run derby drinking game, anyone? Hit one out, everybody else drinks. Don't hit one out, you drink.)

As a loyal Zelda fan in the modern (3D) era, I've been focused mostly on Hyrule these days. There's some badass m*th*r f*ck*ng sh*t (vowels removed for safety) in this one (rated T for teen due to animated blood and fantasy violence!) including multiple jousting showdowns with a giant boar-riding beast of a goblin thing (it's cooler in person), the execution of a Queen by invaders in order to send a message, sumo wrestling, throat-tearing wolf action, and good guy soldiers actually getting killed. It's kinda grown-up.

And there goes the free time.

Come over and play it sometime.