Gamers Evolved

There’s another medical condition to hit the market and it’s affecting Nintendo gamers everywhere. It’s called the ‘Wii syndrome’. Medical physicians in Britain are blaming the Nintendo Wii for some minor injuries that thousands of people have been experiencing.

Osteopaths have said middle aged parents roped into playing the games with their children are especially susceptible to neck, shoulder and elbow problems that can result from playing for extended periods of time. “We noticed we were getting a number of middle-aged parents coming in having played for far too long on the Nintendo Wii that they had bought their children,” said Martin Davies, who runs five osteopathic clinics in Cheshire county.

Don’t you hate it when you get your hopes up for something great only to have them dashed when it’s taken away from you? Well it seemed to be the job of the New York Times to do just that to us. The famed newspaper had printed a story stating that Nintendo would be making a way for the Wii to download full DS games.

You can imagine how excited we were to first hear about this. The fact that we were able to go from only being able to download DS demo games instead of the full versions was a great achievement on Nintendo’s part. At least that’s what we were hoping for. Nintendo had to inform the New York Times of their mistake and printed out a statement of their own:

There is only three more days left to finish all that Christmas shopping and the one item that everyone wants is the one thing that can’t be found. Even with Nintendo working together with Game Stop in creating the ‘rain check’ program consumers are still not able to get their hands on that perfect gift. Maybe it’s because they are looking in the wrong place. Perhaps they should be turning their eyes to Ebay.

GameStop has teamed up with Nintendo and created a rain check program that was set up to appease those consumers who are unable to find a Wii to put under the Christmas tree. Holiday shoppers were dismayed when there was no Wii to be found hoping that they could offer the best gift to their child (or for themselves).

Don’t know what to give all your friends for Christmas? Why not buy them a virtual console game for their Wii. Nintendo has created – Gifting – a feature that allows you to use those extra Wii points you have to buy your friends the virtual game they have always wanted.

Virtual Console games are purchased from the Wii Shop Channel at a starting price of 500 Wii Points ($5). Classic NES titles typically start at 500 points, SNES games at 800 and N64 at 1000. Virtual Console games from other classic systems such as the Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, MSX and Neo Geo are also available.