After following the rumors online, I drove 45 minutes out to Harrisburg, PA in hopes of scoring a Wii. There was already a line when I got there at 8:30am, so I grabbed Electra, and sat down next to the nerds. Actually, there were much fewer nerds than I thought there would be. In front of me was an elderly woman who was there for HER HUSBAND! Not her son! Her husband was going to some football game so she was braving the cold for his Wii. Ah what someone will do for his/her man's Wii. In front of her was a woman making the line for her friend! And she was elderly too! Man people are nice!
In front of both these lovely women were the true geeks. They had all these stats about how many Wiis Best Buy had and shit. Noone belived them.
The line in front of me.
The line behind me.After half an hour and and thirty pages of Electra, a lovely Best Buy manager walked out to greet those in line. Behind him, another Best Buy guy...this one in a blue shirt carrying some sort of banner. He placed it on the ground next to the line. It read:
"We have 41 Wiis this morning"
Wii indeed! And the nerds were right! And only an hour more to go!
The Best Buy peeps.Well to make this long story short: Waited for an hour, finished Electra, was #15 in line, got a Wii, an SD card, no extra controller, drove home. I didn't open it because I was leaving PA and wanted to wait to be in Boston, but once I did, oh man!
The Wii is freaking great. A lot of my friends have stopped by to make a Mii... And Zelda might be the greatest game ever made. I'm only 15 hours in, but at hour 10, the thing blew my mind unlike a game has in recent memory....maybe Half Life 2 come close.
And now: Bob playing Wii
Tomorrow, he and Liz are trying to score one, as I try to find another remote for some multiplayer Wii Sports.
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