I can’t believe I haven’t posted about this sooner.  I love video games.  A good video game is magical and the Wii is nothing but magic.  If you are not familiar with it, it takes video games to a totally new interactive level.  Remember when you were 13 and you were playing Super Mario Bros and you would throw the controller up to jump on a mushroom even though your movements were totally futile?  Well now they’re not.  You actually tilt your hands left and right to move and throw it back to jump and it’s just like being a kid again only you don’t look stupid anymore.  Your movements actually matter.  The Wii is totally, ridiculously fun to play.

Here are the games that we have:

Wii Sports:  Technically we don’t have this game anymore.  Ours broke but it was so much fun I’d like to tell you about it.  It features tennis, bowling, baseball, golf and boxing.  Our favorites were bowling and boxing.  With bowling you go through the actual motion of bowling a ball to try to get a strike.  Max (my 7 yr old) holds the title in our house.  Boxing is a total work out (Wii Sports does have a workout mode btw).  You hold the Wii Remote in one hand and the Nunchuck in the other and swing away.  A total blast.

Mario Party 8:  This is a board game played on the TV.  You punch dice and move ahead spaces and take turns just like a board game.  The tricky part comes when the board changes to a different configuration or Bowser comes out and starts taking stars away.  The fun parts are the mini games which are played after each round of turns.  Some of my favorites are the ones where you scrub a little chained up ball clean, when you punch a statue apart, where you shake a can of soda to see who’s flies the highest when opened, when you pump a railroad car through an underground tunnel or the one where you lasso barrels for points.  Mario Party is even fun for the Oli (my 3 yr old).

My favorite is Mario Kart.  You can really get into this one as you tilt left and right and rock back to jump and do tricks in the air.  Some of the courses are impossible for me to do without falling over the edge into oblivion (the Rainbow one).  All five of us like this game and can play it 4 at a time which makes it even more fun.

Lego Batman:  The kids just got this one and they are loving it.  It takes some skill as you have to coordinate your hands with the Wii Remote and the Nunchuck but they’re totally picking it up.

So that’s it for games.  That’s all we have but we love all of them.  We did have  Mario and Sonic Olympics but it was so complicated we sold it back.  Tru (my 5 yr old) asks for it on a weekly basis so it was obviously at least a little fun.

What are your favorite games?  Do you have any Wii catastrophes?  Tell me, can you actually walk into a store now and pick up a Wii off the shelf or do you still have to stalk stores waiting with bated breath for the next shipment?