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Old 12-24-2009, 12:45 PM   #1
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Wii

It's pretty much a PITA, but I'm posting from my new Wii. I suck at Wii bowling in exactly the same way I do at the real thing!
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Old 12-24-2009, 06:26 PM   #2
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Congrats Wolf!

I played wii golf with my 4 yr old today. She went 1 under par and I got 8 points for 'giving up' (ie: I had too many shots to count them).
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Old 12-24-2009, 06:50 PM   #3
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I've always enjoyed playing with my Wii Wii.
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Old 12-24-2009, 10:53 PM   #4
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ROLF, wait until the kids are all over at someone elses house, and have a game of naked bowling with your "other". Makes losing horribly much more fun

We love our Wii there is lots of Wii extras under the tree this year, games, controllers, zappers... etc.....
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Old 12-25-2009, 03:16 PM   #5
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Apparently I don't totally suck at DDR
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Old 12-26-2009, 01:39 AM   #6
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It's pretty much a PITA, but I'm posting from my new Wii. I suck at Wii bowling in exactly the same way I do at the real thing!
I can't stand bowling, but I'm actually pretty good at the Wii version (if my two games with a 9 year old competitor can be considered an acceptable sample). I'm hopeless at Wii tennis though. Don't know what my eyes are doing, but I can't actually work out where the ball is meant to be, unless I'm serving (the opposite of the real thing...which I'm crap at as well, just not as crap as the Wii version).
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Old 01-02-2010, 06:51 AM   #7
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I can't stand bowling, but I'm actually pretty good at the Wii version (if my two games with a 9 year old competitor can be considered an acceptable sample). I'm hopeless at Wii tennis though. Don't know what my eyes are doing, but I can't actually work out where the ball is meant to be, unless I'm serving (the opposite of the real thing...which I'm crap at as well, just not as crap as the Wii version).
There is a wii here. I've been thinking of the wii fit.
Is the tennis and the bowling a part of the wii fit line up?

No I guess that would be sports huh? I wonder if wii fit isn't ridiculous?
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Old 01-02-2010, 06:55 AM   #8
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some wii fit is ridiculous, and some gives you an actual workout.
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Old 01-02-2010, 07:05 AM   #9
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some wii fit is ridiculous, and some gives you an actual workout.
Hmmm, I did the Wii fit weight measurement thing and I came up as on the borderline of being obese. (Another contributor to the Cellar could testify that this is not the case). Also, given the fact that I do a fair amount of exercise, it seemed somewhat inaccurate. I also did hear (but could not confirm that this is true firsthand) that the whole New Zealand rugby team comes up as morbidly obese on the Wii Fit measurement scale, so I'd be somewhat sceptical about it, but am keen to read what other people have to say.
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Old 12-26-2009, 02:52 PM   #10
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Your mii should track on the ball, so all you really have to do is swing forehand or backhand at the right time. I want to get one of the more sophisticated tennis games. I really like the tennis.
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Old 12-27-2009, 02:36 AM   #11
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That's the bit that I can't seem to do right (not that I've practised a lot).
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Old 12-27-2009, 11:44 AM   #12
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Have you ever played real tennis, badminton, or ping pong?
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Old 12-28-2009, 07:40 PM   #13
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I play squash weekly, tennis semi-regularly (I was playing weekly while I was in Chile) and ping-pong occasionally. I played badminton at school and although I'm not great, I can definitely maintain a decent rally as long as my opponent isn't really competitive. I'm going to blame my lazy eye for my inability to play Wii tennis. Would that be convincing?
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Old 12-29-2009, 01:23 PM   #14
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Absolutely.
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Old 12-31-2009, 12:01 AM   #15
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Cool! Now to work on being convincing all round.
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