The ScooterBlog

So remember that thing I wrote where I said I was sitting out this next-gen launch? Yep … wrong again … but it was fun being wrong this time.

I’m down in Kentucky visiting my parents on Saturday, when I walk upstairs and my mom asks me if I want the new Nintendo system for Christmas. Grant you, this is the same mom who I know feels like the worst thing she ever did was start my video game addiction by buying me a NES when I was EIGHT … so I look at her weird, ask if she’s being totally serious, and sure enough, she is. If I can find the system, she’ll give it to me for Christmas.

So I remembered from reading Joystiq and Kotaku (go Google Reader!) that Best Buy was getting and selling a shipment on Sunday, the next day. So, I wake up, and get to the Best Buy an hour before open, 9 AM. The manager is already outside telling people in the LONG line how the system will work … stay in line, one ticket per household, and there’s going to be 51 tickets total. I get into the back of the line, not extremely hopeful, and not figuring this would go as smoothly as it sounds like it might. So, the tickets start being given out, and it actually begins to look like I might get one. They get to ticket #45, I start to count in my head, and then I get it. The last ticket, #51! So, I wait my hour, enjoy talking to the mom’s and other fanboys in line, and tell the mom’s how crazy it is to spend $69.99 on Nintendo’s 1 GB SD card (they appreciated that), and then we get into the store, and things so as smooth as they could have.

In the end, I got my Wii, got out, but not before 5 Best Buy employees tried to sell me the service plan (ehh, no thanks), but they did finally relent, and I got the Wii.

Can’t play it ’til Christmas, that was the deal to get it, but hey, it’s wrapped and under the tree already, and now my whole family will get a chance to try the bowling game come the 25th. Good stuff it is!