Wii Makes Gift Giving Easy With Virtual Console

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Marcus Yam (Blog)

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Virtually send Wii games as holiday gifts

Nintendo will later today launch a new feature on the Wii that will make gift giving this holiday season a little more convenient. A new Gifting function will allow users with Wii to send Virtual Console games to those with whom they have traded Friend Codes.

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.

The new Gifting feature will also take out some of the guess work in virtual gifting. Should the recipient already own a particular game gift, the sender will be immediately notified to choose another title.

Launching alongside the Gifting feature is the first Pokémon game to hit the Virtual Console – Pokémon Snap – originally for N64. As an added bonus, pictures taken as part of the gameplay in Pokémon Snap can be posted to the Wii Message Board and shared with friends.

Other new additions to the Wii Shop are Ghosts'n Goblins from the NES and Baseball Stars 2 from the Neo Geo.

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Wii, Ladies, No Shirts

This isn't kind of NSFW, it's totally NSFW and totally After Dark. British lad magazine Nuts has clips of "models" Cara and Kayleigh playing games like Wario Ware on the Wii. Innocent enough! Save for the embarrassing fact that they are not wearing shirts and oiled up. Get this: There are 12 (count 'em, twelve) shameful Nuts clips. Endless jubblie overkill!
NSFW Clips [Nuts, Thanks Sean!]

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Wii Fit Hits Japan

Posted by Takahashi @ 6:30 pm

Yes Wii Fit is finally out in Japan and early indicators show that the public there are eating it up.

Okay, I’m done for the day.I did these exercises:

Body Building:
Sit ups - which aren’t like I was used to back in school, you rase your legs and your upper body and meet at the middle, I did pretty well, but towards the end I could really feel the burn in my stomach

Push ups - again, it’s not just straight push-ups, first they teach you the proper form, (which I didn’t know) and they put in these side arm stands in after every push up, alternating left and right. This exercise really got me, it was tough. My arms feel heavy after doing it.

Twisting excersize - spin your body left and right without moving your legs, then do it while bending over. this was easy, but they try to focus more on your balance and rhythm, which…wasn’t so easy lol.

Lunges - This was tough also, you put yourself in a front stance, then bend your back knee down and then raise it up, basic level was 10 reps per leg, this was tough.

Walking something or other - You stand in place and then extend your arm and leg to kind of simulate walking\skating, never heard of it before, was kinda easy to do. Another one where they focus on rhythm and balance.

Yoga:

Hero stance - Kinda like a light version of the lunge, Yoga isn’t that stressfull so it was kind of a nice way to calm down. This was part of my leg training they had me set for the day.

Balance:

Skiing - This is hard, but fun.

Soccer - HARD ARGGG, I think most people will suck hardcore when they play this for the first time. It’s hard getting used to the BB.

Ski Jump - Easy, super fun.

Monkey ball - Starts out easy, gets super hard, but never feels “too” hard.

Tight rope - I fell You have to walk forward by shifting your balance left and right. It was kinda tough. (unlockable)

Cardio:

Hula hoop: This is the game that will make you look the most ridiculous. So for people who are embarassed by pelvic thrusts, do not try this game.

Jogging: It’s kinda weird seeing Hitler wave back at you while you are on a nice afternoon Jog.

Dancing: Awwww yeah, fun as hell.

That’s all I’m playing for now, gotta go get lunch.

A forum poster at NeoGAF shows the long lines that awaited him on launch day:

Another Neogaf poster unpacking here:

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