Cheryl LaGuardia

Wiiiiiiiiiiii!
May 7, 2008

Having spent one entire dismal-graded semester of undergraduate school obsessed with pinball, when online and electronic games came into vogue I was a ready and willing victim. I was high (wo)man on Galaxian for 9 months at the local arcade, they had to tear my hands away from the machine at 5 AM (no lie) the first time I played Maniac Mansion, and I was set for entering a game-detox 12-step program before graduate school set me straight – I transferred my electronic obsessions to online catalogs and databases, go figure. 

So by the time the X-Box and the X-Box 360 rolled around, I was able to resist their allures. I was deaf (or so I thought) to the gaming siren song, having achieved my MLS and proficiency with OCLC, DIALOG, and BRS. Later Web-based resources and their reviewing fortunately moved me safely farther away from gaming.

But now comes the Wii.

Yet another friend has purchased a Nintendo Wii, and I feel my resistance slipping. Other friends have been disappearing over the weekends, “Wii-Lost,” emerging only as absolutely necessary on Monday mornings as they slide the wrist strap from their arms, sighing deeply. Indeed, there was the infamous Valentine’s Day Incident when a hard-to-acquire, one-to-a-customer Wii was mistakenly purchased for a friend (as a favor) rather than delivered into the hands of the anxiously-waiting Wii lover – that couple has gotten past that little bump in the road, but someone wasn’t talking to someone else for a while.

I realized this fun-loving piece of electronic equipment was a serious threat to my gaming recovery when the latest friend to fall to the Wii’s blandishments explained why she just had to buy one: her 65-year old mother is fast becoming a double threat at Wii bowling and Wii boxing, and simple pride requires my friend be ready for the upcoming smackdown challenge matches. That competitive urge to be the game-best resonates deeply within my gamer's soul. And to further weaken my no-Wii will, I just learned of the availability of And Then There Were None on Wii.

Like Oscar Wilde, I can resist anything but temptation. I just hope that if I do succumb, I don’t slam the remote into the TV… or worse….

More as it happens, gamely,
Cheryl

Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on May 7, 2008 | Comments (0)