WiiI can’t believe it!  I went looking for posts about the Wii and found that although I have talked about my PS3  and XBox 360, I haven’t talked about the Wii.  How absurd, I mean to say, one of my favorite games is played on the Wii – Animal Crossing: City Folk.

Paula and I brought the Wii quite some time ago when we upgraded from the GameCube Console ( although I haven’t yet manage to part with my gamecube). The main reason being that we love playing Animal Crossing and more so now than ever, because we can visit each others town through our wifi networks.

So we don’t even have to be in the same room, or across the hall as we were in Bangkok, to play this as an interactive game.

Believe me if you are looking for a gaming platform that the whole family can enjoy then you can’t go past the Wii and you if you aren’t into shoot em ups then you really want to try Animal Crossing.

But Firstly the Wii gaming platform:

Here is a compact unit that has 512 MB of internal flash memory, two USB 2.0 ports and a slot for SD memory expansion.

The processing chip was developed with IBM and the graphics chipset is from ATI.  Unlike the other gaming systems that have a tray to hold the discs, the Wii has a single, self loading media slot that lets you play both  the 12-centimeter optical discs that have been designed for use in the new system as well as any of your favorite Nintendo GameCube discs.

I was playing my gamecube Animal Crossing game until the new one with all the added interactive functionality was released.

There is no clunky controller to manage. Even the littlies can hold onto the Wii Remote Controller which is about the size of a tv remote control. Now this remote has the most amazing functionality.  There are acellerometers within the controller that measure your movement in all directions and speeds.  So when you are playing tennis the remote becomes your raquet,  when playing games like Zelda – it becomes your sword and in a first person shooting game it serves as your firearm that you point to shoot the enemy. 

 There is also an additional accessory, the Nunchuck which gives you additional trigger buttons.  Up to four controllers can be linked at the one time and the Wii makes use of standard Bluetooth wireless technology.

The contoller comes with a comfortable non slip sleeve.

 What’s in the Box:

  • Nintendo Wii Game Console
  • one (1) Wii Remote controller with Wii Remote Jacket
  • one (1) Nunchuk controller
  • Wii Sports
  • sensor bar
  • power cord
  • standard composite cable
  • stand

And the beauty of having Wii Sports included is that you have hours of fun right from the time of opening the box.

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