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To Wii or Not To Wii

For my nephew’s 10th birthday, I got him a Wii Fit.  I actually went around to a few stores before I decided to just order it online.  I’ll confess the temptation was pretty strong to pick up a Wii myself.  Then after the Fit arrived in the mail, I spent all day Saturday with the family playing video games.  It was a lot of fun.

Not part of that is obviously just hanging out with family.  But some it was just enjoying playing video games.  The last system that I actually owned was a ColecoVision.  The last system I played with any regularity was the old Nintendo NES back in college.  I’ve pretty much resisted the call of video games since then.  But the Wii, and especially the Fit, have me re-thinking that decision.

I just got a nice bonus at work and there is the itch to spend some of it.  Most of it is simply going to savings, but that’s not really “fun”.  So, I’ve decided that on Thursday I’ll make the drive over to Best Buy.  If it is in-stock, then I’ll buy it.  If not, then I guess it wasn’t meant to be.