The wii topic

[Xiahou]

Pape: You want me to stick tacky blue putty stuff on the on/off switch of my shiny white console!? Gah!, I say to you, sir, gah!

Just hook it to a power strip that you can switch off when you're not playing. That'll save you from unplugging it all the time.

Something tells me that I'll be getting Monkey Ball for Christmas, so I'll know more about it then... I have heard some mixed reviews on it though.

I had rented Red Steel, and it's not a bad game. The controls seem a little awkward at first, but I got used to them within the first hour. It's basically just a shoot em up with a thin plot about rescuing your GF who's dad is a Yakuza lord. The sword fighting is kinda fun, but they don't make much sense in the pacing of the game- You're running along shooting everyone in sight, then you go into a room with a guy with a sword and you duel him instead of just blasting with a shotgun... for some reason.

I own Raving Rabbids and it sounds like you got it nailed. It's a collection mini-games with a all but non-existent plot tying them together. The mini-games are good fun and have a sense of humor, but alot of them seem to involve similar motions.

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I just got the forecast channel and the Internet channel installed on my Wii. Both of them are pretty neat w/forecast channel you can view your local forecasts or zoom out to a global views and spin the view to other towns/cities around the world. The Internet channel is just a customized Opera browser, but it supports Flash- which means it can play youtube videos and play Flash online games.