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June 4, 2009

New Super Mario Bros Wii - E3 2009 Trailer

I love Love LOVED the 2D DS Super Mario game, and can’t wait to throw my money at Nintendo for the Wii version.

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October 14, 2008

2D Boy: World of Goo

Stonking little indie game, finally officially released. Filled with bizarreness and imagination, I’ve been having a blast with it.

January 13, 2008

2007's Worst Wii Games

Thankfully, I was completely unaware that any of these games existed — I had to do a quick search to make sure they were real, and not created purely for the purposes of this article!

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November 12, 2007

Buy Super Mario Galaxy at Toys 'R' Us, get a $25 gift card - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Toys Backwards-R Us are giving away $25 gift cards when you buy Super Mario Galaxy from them. Since I was already planning on getting it, that makes me happy. (I’ll probably use the gift card to buy some Wii Points, so I can download Super Mario Bros 3 off of the Virtual Console. Woo!)

July 15, 2007

Nintendo E3 2007 - Wii Fit

Video of Nintendo’s forthcoming workout game for the Wii. Looks like a Brain Age for your whole body!

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May 17, 2007

ThisIsNotALabel.com - My Wiimote Drum Kit

Virtual drumming with a wiimote. The video gives a good idea how it works.

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February 13, 2007

Everybody Votes

I’m in the middle of flipping between writing two emails and a document, and getting nothing completed, when I get distracted by the shiny blue light on my Wii. A message has arrived! What can it say? I must drop everything immediately and become distracted.

It was heralding the arrival of a new free channel called Everybody Votes. (there are some photos at Kotaku)

It’s kind of cute. You vote (with entertaining Mii graphics) on silly little questions like “Do you prefer cats or dogs?”, then predict how you think the majority will vote. Nosing around it, it looks like you get feedback on how well you predict the populous, as well as how far you verge from normal.

Joy happened to walk by as I was playing, so I got her to join in. It was fun comparing our votes, and if Nintendo were to expand it to allow you to compare with your Wii friends, I could see this becoming wicked popular, especially when you consider all the silly meme polls that flood LiveJournal and the like. People like showing off their opinion (plus comparing scores!)

If nothing else, it acts as an example of out-there thinking from someone at Nintendo. You wouldn’t see this on a PS3!

February 3, 2007

DDR Hottest Party First Look - Wii News at GameSpot

Dance Dance Revolution is headed for Wii, and there’ll be arm movements with the Wiimote thrown in for good measure. Hopefully this’ll be easier to find than DDR Mario Mix was for the GameCube.

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February 2, 2007

Clip: Conan Vs. Serena Williams In Wii Tennis - Kotaku

Conan O’Brien takes on Serena Williams at Wii Tennis.

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January 26, 2007

Wii News Channel

Wii News Channel

It just seems right that the first story I pulled up on the new Wii "News Channel" was about the European PS3 launch.

January 9, 2007

Mii Buttons

Badges made with your Mii and your Wii Number to make it easy to find new friends for your Wii.

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January 4, 2007

finetune wii player

Finetune, Boston-based music streaming playlist geezers, have a nice Flash-based player designed with the Wii web browser in mind.

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December 23, 2006

WiiCade.com - Flash Games on your Nintendo Wii

Flash games designed to be played on the Wii’s Internet Channel. What a clever way of getting “homebrew” games onto the Wii!

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It’s Me! On TV! Courtesy of Wii! Eeeeee!

It’s Me! On TV! Courtesy of Wii!   Eeeeee!

Not terribly legible (wonder if component cables will make a difference), but here's my blog on the telly, courtesy of the freshly-launched "Internet Channel" on my Wii.

Rather surprisingly, the browser supports Flash video, so the combination of Wii and YouTube finally gives me a way to, if you can imagine such a thing, enjoy watching video on my television.

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December 22, 2006

Woot! PS3's...Oh Wait - Kotaku

Woot slam the PS3 in their promotional copy, and still sell out in 4.5 minutes! “In fact, we love the Wii so much, we want to give a Wii to everybody on our payroll. To fund this Wii-for-the-People program, we’re selling this Sony PlayStation 3.”

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December 19, 2006

Opera for Wii will be released on Dec 22nd

With the Weather channel being released this morning, and Opera later this week, it’s going to be fun to see how the non-gaming side of Wii grows.

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December 16, 2006

Amazon Customers Vote: Wii & PS3

Amazon are rather sensibly randomly distributing the chance to buy a Wii or PS3 from them. Sign up before midnight tomorrow for a shot at getting one.

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December 15, 2006

WII Mod WII: Mii Transfer Station

Smart people have worked out how to download/upload Miis from/to the Wiimote over Bluetooth, and set up a forum for Celebrity Mii trading.

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December 8, 2006

YouTube - Rayman European Launch Trailer

Raving Rabbids is by far my favourite Wii game. This promo clip does a good job of showing why. (If only I could find a second Wiimote so Joy & I could play together!)

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December 7, 2006

DarwiinRemote is released! (Hirolog)

Use your Wiimote as a mouse on a Mac.

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December 5, 2006

Wii Safety: The Missing Pages - a photoset on Flickr

Do not taunt Happy Fun Wii.

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December 1, 2006

Gawd Bless the Qwiin

Gawd Bless the Qwiin

My Wii, looking all patriotic after the application of a decal from DecalGirl.com.

November 30, 2006

Penny Arcade! - Lubricado

“The Wiimote just slipped right out of my hand and broke my TV.”

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November 29, 2006

GameTrailers.com - User Movie: The Mii Lebowski

The Big Lebowski, remade with Miis and Wii Bowling.

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November 28, 2006

Skid Prooof Glove for Wii Controller

Hands getting sweaty from too much Wii-playing? Here’s your solution!

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November 27, 2006

Wii Skin - Retro Revolution @ DecalGirl.com

Make your Wii like a bit more NESy! (I just ordered a Union Jack skin for my Wii, so I can play Super Monkey Ball for Queen And Country)

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November 22, 2006

A Selection of Miis

A Selection of Miis

Four Miis currently inhabiting our Wii.

Top left, it's me. Top right, the missus

Bottom left, the prince of darkness. Bottom right, some Austrian bloke.

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November 20, 2006

My Wii number

is 8208 9478 2034 3274.

If you want to see my scruffy, portly (and endearingly accurate) Mii strut his stuff in your Mii Parade, or just want to send rude messages to my TV screen, let me know your friend code.

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November 19, 2006

Wii in Action

Wii in Action

Home, unpacked, and rawkin'! Four hours in the cold? Worth it!

We have Wii!

We have Wii!

The Wii bundle (the console plus Excite Truck and Zelda, neither of which I really wanted, but which I should be able to sell on eBay no problem), plus Super Monkey Ball and Rayman: Raving Rabbids. In my car boot. Mine!

I'm a happy camper.

Updated to add: Zelda and Excite Truck both sold on half.com in about 10 minutes, recouping my $90. Ace!

Got my ticket.

Got my ticket.

Twelfth in line. My Costco had 48 to hand out, and everyone in line at 9am got one. In fact, the manager had to stand around outside with a spare ticket until a family showed up at 9.31am and claimed the final system!

My hero

My hero

This kind gentleman showed up with a Box of Joe and donuts to share amongst the line.

Costco Wii line

Costco Wii line

The line for Wii, outside Costco in Everett MA at about 7.30am.

Originally, I was planning on going to Target, but when I got there about 6.30, they'd already handed out tickets to the line for all the systems they had. (Some students were offering to sell their places in line. I didn't bother asking for how much)

The official word from Costco earlier in the week had been that they weren't stocking Wii's in their retail stores, to avoid lines. This turned out to be untrue, as when I wandered round the corner, there were 11 people waiting, including an off-duty Costco employee who said they had 48 in stock!

November 5, 2006

WiiSeeker

Mashing up the “leaked” (and possibly true) information on how many Wiis each branch of Target will be selling on launch day with Google Maps. I might try the Everett Target instead of the Somerville one — they’re looking to be getting almost three times as many.

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September 19, 2006

Game Informer Online: Will Wii Be Disappointed Again?

Are us Nintendo fanboys just setting ourselves up for disappointment again? Frankly, I’ve never been disappointed with Nintendo consoles: They were the only places to play Donkey Kong Country or Pikmin, and well worth the price of admittance.

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September 14, 2006

Wii.com - Introducing Wii Channels

Videos of Nintendo’s non-gamey stuff built in to the Wii. Browse news and weather on your television set. What a concept! Someone should invent that 30 years ago and call it Teletext.

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Live at Nintendo's NYC Wii press conference - Engadget

The Wii details are out: Launches Nov 19th (two days after PS3), $250 including one remote+nunchuck and Wii Sports, Extra remote+nunchuck for $60. From the download service, NES games will be $5, SNES games $8, N64 games $10. I can’t bloody wait!

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June 20, 2006

Warioware Smooth Moves - E3 footage of the game.

Sweet Jeebus, this looks like fun.

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May 15, 2006

Life After the Video Game Crash

Fun rant predicting an impending crash. “We’ve now advanced from realistic 3D to slightly prettier 3D and… even slightlier prettier 3D with slightly better reflection effects and slightly better animated water ripples and - oh, look! This game has the most realistic fog yet!”

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May 8, 2006

TIME.com: A Game For All Ages

Time Magazine preview of the Wii. I’m positively giddy at the potential for a Wario Warez game with that controller.

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April 27, 2006

Revolution has a new name!

Nintendo Wii? Hrmmm… sounds a bit pish to me.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.