It begins -- as the Wii kiosks go up around in GameStops everywhere, we're starting to see more hands-on impressions of the system. Reader Nick tipped us off on this one, and it's not much, but there's something interesting in these few quick lines about the Wii. He and his wife, Katie (who he says is "pretty much a nongamer") stopped by their local store to check out the Excite Truck demo in action. In their blog, Katie reports that Nick had a little trouble with it, but she found it easy. Why? Because it was really like steering and not just about pushing buttons. That was something we noticed at the Fusion Tour as well -- that those of us who spend vast oceans of time with a controller in hand may not have it so easy with the Wii, at least in the beginning.
[Thanks, Nick!]
[Update: Removed photograph at reader request.]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-06-2006 @ 2:27PM
adam said...
I felt the same way. I kept trying to push the d-pad to steer. In excite truck, the d-pad activates the boost. Took me a few minutes to get the hang of (after boosting into some trees)
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11-06-2006 @ 3:39PM
AlexL? said...
Adam, LOL I feel suddonly like I'll do the same, I wanna find out when my EB puts up the Kiosks..MAN I wanna play it so badly..
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11-06-2006 @ 4:20PM
Tush said...
sucks to be in the midwest, we get things so late (compared to the rest of America)
I guess it's because we all sit around tipping cows and race tractors with prairie grass sticking out of our teeth.
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11-06-2006 @ 4:35PM
Jeremy said...
My local EBX has the kiosk now, showing Excite Truck. Sadly, it was nonfunctional as the wiimote had a broken D-pad. :(
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11-06-2006 @ 5:08PM
adam said...
@ Movlin
why don't you post your pic so we can mock you? You are a tool.
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11-06-2006 @ 5:58PM
Marc said...
Well we all know now that Movlin has no life.
And don't try and say so other-wise. You have no life cuz you think its funny when you can make fun of people you'll never meet. No matter what you think, you know its wrong and immoral.
But what do you care. Your just gonna "relish in the anonimity of the internet", you cowardly bastard.
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11-06-2006 @ 6:10PM
Tim Harding said...
I got some good pictures of the Wii kiosk if anyone cares to see some detail on the thing. Unfortunately my local EB Games hadn't gotten it set up yet, so I still haven't played the Wii...
PlayWii
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11-06-2006 @ 6:12PM
Tim Harding said...
Sorry, I guess it doesn't like html tags: http://www.playwii.com/
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11-06-2006 @ 8:43PM
FinalDelerium said...
Congratulations movlin, you have won the Bogan Of The Year award. Now i know what you're thinking, you've never heard of such an award. well that's because it has been created just for YOU!
Btw, for those of you that arent aware of the term, bogan is the australian equivalent for a redneck, but kinda worse.
Seriously, where the hell do you get off? Actually, i dont think i want to know where you 'get off' using your 'anonymity' it's no doubt somewhere like www.badboysbigbirds.com or something like that.
Congratulations for being the most shallow person i have encountered on the internet within the past.....month. And a half.
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