wheeeeeee

Having now observed a wii in play, I can see how people manage to fling the controller through their television sets.

I got to watch someone play WarioWare: Smooth Moves. I tried to find a link that did this game justice, but I just can't. It's a surreal acid trip short attention span spastic series of 20-30 second long minigames, and most of them are just bizarre. It's aimed kind of young, but it still makes a great drunk party game. Playing it solo would bore me, I think, but it was great in a group, all making comments at the screen, laughing and joking, and waiting to see what kind of strange random thing might come up next.

The one thought that kept getting reinforced as I watched the gameplay in action was that this was designed to target the complaints that kids never get any exercise because they sit and play video games all day. You actually have to jump and stretch and move around, and some of the games seemed like thinly veiled excuses to sneak a little exercise into a kid's life.

Amusing to watch, though, especially with a bunch of friends and a drink or few.