Nintendo Wii: Nothing Like It!

Picture this; it’s Christmas morning. The Yule Log is crackling on the TV, you and your younger sibling have opened all of the gifts, exchanged with your parents, and are ready for breakfast and a day of family gathering. Then, your mom hints that in the cabinet at the bottom of the TV stand is something else, a gift for the whole family. You hurry over together, open the doors, and there it is- a Nintendo Wii. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:875/1*pRLN5Ig-WHJSmRG5MMImwQ.jpeg" style="height:935px; width:700px" /> An old family Christmas tree (mid-2000s). In a world of million dollar games being developed for high end hardware that seemingly never live up to the hype, there has never since been another anomaly like the Nintendo Wii. Released in November 2006, Nintendo’s seventh generation console arrived with <a href="https://youtu.be/9PSGgFHLPek?si=gC5eKzjBaHXMEm_U" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">roaring hype & overall intrigue</a> surrounding the innovative motion controls. I was just a kid at the time, and had not begun to hear about the console until <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc_EeTtOtwM" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">ads began running during Friday Night Smackdown!</a> through the winter of 2007. After this, some of my friends from school began getting Wii’s on Christmas or for their birthdays, and after playing Wii Sports for the first time in my neighbor’s basement, I was hooked. <a href="https://medium.com/@dsb.poetry/nintendo-wii-nothing-like-it-56299d336e48">Read More</a>