I. Heart. My. Wii.

I know everyone is all jacked up about the iPhone 3G today, but (a) I have a BlackBerry, (b) no one can get their iPhone 3G to work right, and (c) Mobile Me is still behaving like my dog, meaning it works when it feels like it and at no other time. So I’m going to buck the trend and write about our new Wii (photo from CNET). In case you are living under a rock, as I evidently was until the last few weeks, you’ve heard that the Wii is the latest and greatest from Nintendo: it somehow has motion sensors in the Wii remote controller widget that allow you to steer and do stuff by moving the controller itself, as opposed to the old paradigm of pushing buttons on a controller. People were all abuzz on Twitter tweeting about the Wii Fit, which has a balance board and basically lets you work out with your Wii. That sounded pretty cool, so I investigated, and I finally told the boyfriend that we should get a Wii. He said no, but then he started thinking about it, and we set out to buy one.

They are sold out. EVERYWHERE. For real! Everyone wants a Wii! And they’re not even new. Weird. I signed up for wiialerts.com and that worked. I got a text message, immediately signed into Amazon, and got the last one still in stock. We got a Wii Fit bundle, and we rented Mario Kart from Family Video, so last night we had Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and Mario Kart to play with. Wicked cool!

The boyfriend is bored by Wii Sports, but I groove on the boxing. You can practice with a punching bag, and I like boxing so this is ideal. When I use a for-real punching bag, I immediately injure myself, but the virtual one is fab. The other sports are so-so fun. Wii Fit is wicked cool, as expected. You have to step through a bunch of boring introductory stuff, but it’s fun and I actually worked up a sweat and got out of breath, which surprised me because it looks like mamby-pamby stuff. But Mario Kart could destroy my life by causing me to do nothing else: you get a little steering wheel and use it to race around tracks. You can pick way more characters and cars/bikes than in previous versions, and it is soooooooo fun. I hypothesize the imminent purchase of this game and a spare Wii remote to allow a two-player game!