GOT YOUR Wii?? I DOOOOO!

[OldSkoolNJ]

So I live in South Jersey near Philly and got a call two days ago saying that my pre orders will be available for pickup at MidNight on Saturday. First thing I thought is that was awesome, as I work all day Sunday and was upset I would have to wait until Monday. I am not as lucky as some kids where I can request a day off because the newest toy is coming out. Anyway.. we, girlfriend and I, went to pick it up tonight. I am uber excited over this as I love oldskool games and just the whole concept around this system is awesome. So tonight I realized a huge bonus. Now my house is a welcome mat for console gamers and we play all the time here. The girls, my girlfriend and others girlfriends, get very bored with all the other systems or have little to no interest. My girlfriend is I beleive more excited about the Wii than I am! She loves oldskool Nintendo also. SO finally she will be into this also. SO I am uber stoked about this. She was so excited when we got it we decided to drive by the Target in the same parking lot with 30 people camping out freezing and hold the Wii up and holding down the horn. The look on their faces was priceless. We decided that was great and hit the Best and Circuit City by our house. We got, count em, four middle fingers! LOL .. priceless.... ANyway .. onto to set the syetem up and play for about five minutes and then off to bed for early work. Interested to know if anyone has any similar experience with the game systems and their significant others?

Kevin

[2nyRiggz]

Great, post pics and enjoy....


Bless

[iBookG4user]

I hope that I can even go to try to get it, hopefully my parents will let me get into even more debt to get the Wii. But I also hope that even if I do get to go, that it won't be a wasted trip.

[XNine]

So I live in South Jersey near Philly and got a call two days ago saying that my pre orders will be available for pickup at MidNight on Saturday. First thing I thought is that was awesome, as I work all day Sunday and was upset I would have to wait until Monday. I am not as lucky as some kids where I can request a day off because the newest toy is coming out. Anyway.. we, girlfriend and I, went to pick it up tonight. I am uber excited over this as I love oldskool games and just the whole concept around this system is awesome. So tonight I realized a huge bonus. Now my house is a welcome mat for console gamers and we play all the time here. The girls, my girlfriend and others girlfriends, get very bored with all the other systems or have little to no interest. My girlfriend is I beleive more excited about the Wii than I am! She loves oldskool Nintendo also. SO finally she will be into this also. SO I am uber stoked about this. She was so excited when we got it we decided to drive by the Target in the same parking lot with 30 people camping out freezing and hold the Wii up and holding down the horn. The look on their faces was priceless. We decided that was great and hit the Best and Circuit City by our house. We got, count em, four middle fingers! LOL .. priceless.... ANyway .. onto to set the syetem up and play for about five minutes and then off to bed for early work. Interested to know if anyone has any similar experience with the game systems and their significant others?

Kevin


No, what would have been priceless is if those people mobbed your car, pulled both you and your girlfriend out of it, beat the living hell out of both of you with a tire iron, burned your car, stole your Wii and your wallets.

[tweakers_suck]

No, what would have been priceless is if those people mobbed your car, pulled both you and your girlfriend out of it, beat the living hell out of both of you with a tire iron, burned your car, stole your Wii and your wallets.


Yes, that is the thought that came to me as well. That must be the difference in age between us oldfer folk and the little ones. We see and perceive danger everywhere. The young ones have no idea and unwittingly invite danger!

Have fun with your gaming station. Oh, and do your homework first.

[Malus]

Didn't get one at walmart....gonna try tomrrow at other places....good job gettin one!! Have fun with it!

[Gimzotoy]

Yes, that is the thought that came to me as well. That must be the difference in age between us oldfer folk and the little ones. We see and perceive danger everywhere. The young ones have no idea and unwittingly invite danger!

Have fun with your gaming station. Oh, and do your homework first.

I was thinking the same thing. After the numerous stories of PS3 buyers being followed home/around town after their purchase, that was a pretty stupid stunt. They'd then have their homes or cars broken into as soon as they left. Out of the 90 people you pissed off, there's a good chance there's a few whackos in there. Lock your doors! :)

[SamIchi]

Nope, but drove around to Target, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and Circuit City, they all had people waitin' except WalMart. I'm jus goin to wake up tomrrow and get one.

[Archmagination]

Got mine!!!!! I went and waited in line at 2pm.. was 9th. I could have actually waited until 5pm and I would have still got one. Anyway our Walmart really didn't have it togather.. 1st off we get told that they have 20.. then is was 16.. 4 were apparently reserved. Then we got the Manager their and he said it was 20.. Final figure ended up being 18(I wonder who got the other 2 consoles?) Also THEY DIDN'T HAVE ZELDA OR EXCITE TRUCK!! They also stupidly waited until we asked and COULDN'T find the Wiimote, Nunchuck or Classic Controller. All in all I wonder wtf was up with Walmart.

[Virtualball]

I'm leaving to wait in line in 2 hours (my Target doesn't alow campers :( )

Wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OldSkoolNJ]

Yes, that is the thought that came to me as well. That must be the difference in age between us oldfer folk and the little ones. We see and perceive danger everywhere. The young ones have no idea and unwittingly invite danger!

Have fun with your gaming station. Oh, and do your homework first.

Well as much as I would like to consider myself one I know I am not a kid anymore. I am 28. We deffinitely do perceive danger. Which is why car was locked and windows up and also this is just not an area stuff like that would happen in. Nothing wrong with some harmless fun even if I am becoming a geezer. Most the people around here even going to buy the game systems are soccer moms and fathers with too much money who spoil their kids.

PS - Will have pics up sometime .. right now time fer bed.

Kevin

[rtdgoldfish]

Just got home from camping 22 hours at my local Wal-Mart. Way longer than I expected but it was well worth it. Zelda is AMAZING and Wii Sports is a ton of fun. I'll work on a better review in the morning, I need some sleep.

[7on]

I got a Wii Play sticker

[bobber205]

Only 20 at my local Wal-Mart. The whole time they were saying 29. Lots of people didn't get one. Got the 3rd to last Zelda!

Got to sleep a bit first! It's not fair! :D

[Markleshark]

I'd like to think I could get one on our release day (8th of December) but its looking like it might be a little more of a challenge that was expected.

Oh well, all those of you who got them... Enjoy.

[seenew]

I camped out from 10:30pm last night (friday night) until 3pm Saturday at a 24-hour Walmart. At 3:30 they issued tickets and let us leave, but said if we weren't back at midnight, they'd sell our system. The camp out was necessary because when my two friends and I got there, we were numbers 3, 4, and 5, shortly followed by 6 and 7, and they told us there were 20 units. The list was full by 8am Saturday.

I took plenty of photos, I'll be sure to share when I get them online. We managed to each get a system, but they wouldn't sell us games or extra controllers...? They were really stupid and basically had no idea what was going on-- they didn't even know Zelda was a launch title.

Oh, here's a quicktime VR of a few of the campers. http://seenew.net/wii/wiiPanoVR.qt

[Oblivious]

I got mine about 4 hours ago at the Toys 'R' Us midnight launch in Peabody, MA. I've been playing Zelda ever since... so awesome.:D
They had an enormous stock of 200 Wiis... I was 102 in line and waited for about 5 hours. Met some cool people, froze my balls off, and uh... yeah.

Okay, it's 4:45... I need to go to bed.:p

[XNine]

Well as much as I would like to consider myself one I know I am not a kid anymore. I am 28. We deffinitely do perceive danger. Which is why car was locked and windows up and also this is just not an area stuff like that would happen in. Nothing wrong with some harmless fun even if I am becoming a geezer. Most the people around here even going to buy the game systems are soccer moms and fathers with too much money who spoil their kids.

PS - Will have pics up sometime .. right now time fer bed.

Kevin

"it just doesn't happen here" is a false perception that will likely get you killed one day. Crime is everywhere. If you think that you're safe from being killed by someone enraged by your actions then I'm sorry, you're wrong.

As far as "harmless fun," at 28 I'd like to think you'd have a little more küth than to go about mocking other people. It's more asinine than anything to do something like that. Might as well have driven by homeless people with a bucket of chicken waving about. Same concept.

Just remember what goes around comes around.

[seenew]

Okay, here's the pics.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/walmart.jpg
This is the Super Walmart we camped out at, since it's open 24 hours.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/walmart2.jpg
This is how far away they made us stay in order to camp. :(

http://www.seenew.net/wii/milesAndy.jpg
I was accompanied by my roommate, Miles, on the right, and our friend Andy on the left. They both also got a Wii.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/andyJump.jpg
Excitement!

http://www.seenew.net/wii/oneTwo.jpg
Number One and Number Two, I don't remember their names, but they were the first ones there. They're brothers, but Number One is a prick, totally anal about controlling the whole thing, and Number two was more laid back about it. My friends and I were numbers 3, 4, and 5 on the list of 20 when we got there around 11pm Friday night.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/deadMouse.jpg
A mouse that died waiting for the Wii.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/coldAndy.jpg
It was 37°F that night.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/sunrise.jpg
We were greeted with a beautiful sunrise, and more people joined the list. It was up to 15/20 now.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/milesTired.jpg
Miles, tired in the morning from trying to sleep in a freezing car all night.

[paddy]

As far as "harmless fun," at 28 I'd like to think you'd have a little more küth than to go about mocking other people. It's more asinine than anything to do something like that. Might as well have driven by homeless people with a bucket of chicken waving about. Same concept.

Just remember what goes around comes around.

Hopefully it will in this case anyway, I'm not a fan of that behaviour. :cool:

[seenew]

[[PART 2]]

http://www.seenew.net/wii/andyTired.jpg
Andy, in the same situation.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/camp1.jpg
This is the group, right before the list was completely full. A group of 3 guys showed up, with only two spaces left, so they tried their chances at another store so they wouldn't have to abandon their friend. Oh, that's my drawing final project for this quarter over on the left. Yes, this launched right in the middle of my first college finals. :( I had to work as I waited.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/camp2.jpg
Another view of the group.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/number1.jpg
This is Number One, the prick, who for some reason liked to throw out there every ten minutes or so that he was married... :confused:

http://www.seenew.net/wii/number2.jpg
Number Two, looking like a hobo.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/number6.jpg
Number Six, kept two himself mostly.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/number7.jpg
Number Seven, this guy was pretty cool. We joked around with him most of the time, especially about the three ten-year-olds some parents had dumped off to wait in line.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/10yearOld.jpg
Speaking of ten-year-olds... Yeah, these guys thought it was necessary to show off every curse word they knew, and also informed us that they loved South Park, Family Guy, and Viva La Bam. We told them we couldn't wait to get a Wii so we could finally play Happy Feet.

[seenew]

[[PART 3]]



http://www.seenew.net/wii/list.jpg
The list Number One was keeping. He misspelled all three of our names. Even though we spelled them aloud. N-E-W. NOT KNEW.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/andy5.jpg
At 3:30, a manager came out and gave us official tickets, told us we could leave if we wanted, and come back by midnight. This gave me time to sleep and work on my finals. ^Andy was excited about his ticket.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/line1.jpg
http://www.seenew.net/wii/line2.jpg
We got back at 11pm, and we all lined up again, this time it was 35°F.


http://www.seenew.net/wii/gonnaGetIt.jpg
At 11:45, we were finally led inside!
They didn't allow further photography, so the last shots are of us in the dorm unpacking it all.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/3wiis.jpg

http://www.seenew.net/wii/wii.jpg
Wide-angle exaggerates the proportions here. It's actually quite tiny.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/milesWiimote.jpg

http://www.seenew.net/wii/lick.jpg
It passed my taste test.

http://www.seenew.net/wii/thumbsUp.jpg

[GFLPraxis]

It's 3:30 AM, so I have to go to bed, no time for much. Let's just say two of my sister's friends that stayed to spend the night came to see what I was so excited about, and played for over two hours. One of these girls has an XBox, the other hates video games. Both called it awesome, both are thinking about getting one, and we literally worked up a sweat playing multiplayer (all laughing and having tons of fun).

Best gaming fest I've had in a LONG time, and with a non-gamer at that! We all created Mii's and went at it in Tennis and Boxing, then did a little Excite Truck.

I LOVE THIS SYSTEM!

I refused to put Zelda in because I will not be able to sleep otherwise and I have to get up early tomorrow.

[OldSkoolNJ]

"it just doesn't happen here" is a false perception that will likely get you killed one day. Crime is everywhere. If you think that you're safe from being killed by someone enraged by your actions then I'm sorry, you're wrong.

As far as "harmless fun," at 28 I'd like to think you'd have a little more küth than to go about mocking other people. It's more asinine than anything to do something like that. Might as well have driven by homeless people with a bucket of chicken waving about. Same concept.

Just remember what goes around comes around.

We also can't go around leading our lives in the preverbial turtle shell afraid of what may happen next. Then we forget to do what we were put here and that is t live life to its fullest. It also saddens me that you would condemn my behavior, which is by far leagues away from waving food in front of the homeless, over the behavior of the morons who would do the things that are being done around the country over a game system... a toy. If you can't laugh then why bother. Sure make sure you have limits. I guess what I also failed to mention were the many in lines who got a laugh out of it, so stop living your lives hidden away from it all and just live.

Kevin

[Malus]

Only 20 at my local Wal-Mart. The whole time they were saying 29. Lots of people didn't get one. Got the 3rd to last Zelda!

Got to sleep a bit first! It's not fair! :D

My walmart had 29 as well....they were telling people they were getting 60......its lame hahaha. And I got the 2nd to last Zelda, man are we lucky or WHAT! hehe.

[Dagless]

Very nice pics Seenew . It's a pity that over here all my mates are getting the Wii for Christmas. A crying shame, but testament to our spending of iMacs, climbing gear and power kites in the past :( still. enjoy. all enjoy.

[Foxglove9]

I enjoyed that photo journal of your Wii purchase :)

[Dagless]

I enjoyed that photo journal of your Wii purchase :)

Indeed! Any other Wii launch photo journals?

[SamIchi]

I just went to CC and they handed out vouchers at 8AM. They had 24 and I was number 25. Eh I probably should've went earlier but I wasn't going to camp. It's freezing. I think I'm going to drive around trying to find one around 10am. I think I'll try Best Buy and TRU later.

[takao]

finally some mac rumors user with wiis

that aside anybody seen this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXilwqb2y8Y
?

that's just crazy ... i wonder how many people will be waiting in front of the store when i'm going to pick up my pre-ordered wii on the 8.12.

[FleurDuMal]

http://www.seenew.net/wii/line1.jpg


That guy in the anime t-shirt is wearing officially the most geeky t-shirt known to this world.

Anyway, looked like a good ol' sausage fest at that line. Hope you enjoy your Wii :)

[SamIchi]

finally some mac rumors user with wiis

that aside anybody seen this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXilwqb2y8Y
?

that's just crazy ... i wonder how many people will be waiting in front of the store when i'm going to pick up my pre-ordered wii on the 8.12.

I want a Wii hat!

Do you know where that is?

[shortyjj]

Fingers still frozen as I type, but

Arrived at my target at 6am, 46th in line, they had 87. Ok, fingers are done now.

[zelmo]

All thawed out now. Got to my Target around 11.00p, was #21 waiting for 42 systems. We had a ful house by 2.00a, and another dozen or so who simply wouldn't leave. It was a very laid back, friendly bunch.
Manager came out at 7.00a to distribute tix, and the store opened at 8.00a.

Got my Wii, 2nd controller w/nunchuk, Wii Points card, Zelda, Monkey Ball and Excite Truck.

[gloss]

That guy in the anime t-shirt is wearing officially the most geeky t-shirt known to this world.

Anyway, looked like a good ol' sausage fest at that line. Hope you enjoy your Wii :)

Someone gave me that shirt for Christmas, and I have yet to wear it.

And this is coming from someone who has worn a 'I Want a Persocom' Chobits shirt.

[2nyRiggz]

Okay so i got one and really enjoying excite truck.....zelda has not caught my attention yet but ET is cool....haven't tried wii sports either but this damn thing is so small and light....cool.



Bless

[takao]

envy ... killling ... me

man at least we don't have to wait until april like last time

[Mavimao]

Okay so i got one and really enjoying excite truck.....zelda has not caught my attention yet but ET is cool....haven't tried wii sports either but this damn thing is so small and light....cool.



Bless

When you said ET, I thought you meant the Atari game and I was like...Okay....

But yeah, jealousy = me. Maybe when there aren't so many DS games I want, I'll buy a wii, but til then....

[backsidetailsli]

http://www.seenew.net/wii/andyTired.jpg
super sick glasses

[mfacey]

Holy geek-fest batman!:D :eek:

[Archmagination]

Geez.. My Dad was wondering the reason why I was bouncing around my room and so he came to check on me.. and found me just switching from Boxing to Bowling on Wiisports. After a minute or so of watching me bowl he almost physically takes the controller away from and starts playing the game.. he really got into it(For years he was in a Bowling League) 3 games and 20 minutes later I almost have to physically push him out of my room.. and this is a guy who couldn't even play Super Mario on the NES!!

[sam10685]

turns out my bad wireless router does work on the Wii! but it's slow. (it doesn't work on the DS lite.) this is the coolest thing ever! i was up until 5:30this morning. (i got it at midnight.) need more games... think i'll sell my PS2 and it's games. really wish the Wii did hollywood DVD's so i didn't have to unplug it. WTF? oh well. if USA ever gets a DVD capable one, i'm selling this and getting one of them. i don't care if i loose money. thaat's what's happening. by the way; all you dudes in Europe and Asia-- you have SO much to look forward to! this thing is awesome!

[Markleshark]

super sick glasses

Rather, I can only think *Weezer*

[iBookG4user]

Well I got one. Here's what happened. It was very iffy if my parents were even going to let me get one (as I'm already in debt from my MBP) but at around 11:30PM PST they said I could get one. Woke my dad up at 7AM, left at 7:15AM to go to BestBuy (they were suppostedly getting 300 Wiis in, misinformation from my friend though), signed up on the list and was number 70 of the 102 Wiis that they had. Waited an hour and a half and got a Wii and Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.
http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo00011hj7.jpg
http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo00021xv9.jpg
http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo00031we1.jpg

[seenew]

Anyway, looked like a good ol' sausage fest at that line. Hope you enjoy your Wii :)

Actually, there were two women that looked to be in their thirties, and three teenage girls there. Whether or not they were getting the system for themselves, I don't know. But the younger girls seemed to be really interested in Wii Sports and Zelda.


OH, forgot to post, I made a QTVR of the camp site. Haha.
http://seenew.net/wii/wiiPanoVR.qt

[beg_ne]

I got my Wii today, I had to go to about 6 stores to finally get it and twice on the way I was just after the last person to get one at the store.

Anyway I just set it up to see if it would with with my EyeTv Hybrid, and everything seems great so far. So here is my setup. Everything goes together so well ^_^

[n-abounds]

Sweet setup Beg_ne

And to the dude with the glasses...invest in some Cetaphil. It works wonders.

[Dagless]

envy ... killling ... me

man at least we don't have to wait until april like last time

Or March 2007! :D

[zap2]

Or March 2007! :D

i was talking to my friend when we were sitting out for our Wiis...and we felt bad for people outside of America! I mean the Wii is pretty fun!:D

[topgun072003]

So I live in South Jersey near Philly and got a call two days ago saying that my pre orders will be available for pickup at MidNight on Saturday. First thing I thought is that was awesome, as I work all day Sunday and was upset I would have to wait until Monday. I am not as lucky as some kids where I can request a day off because the newest toy is coming out. Anyway.. we, girlfriend and I, went to pick it up tonight. I am uber excited over this as I love oldskool games and just the whole concept around this system is awesome. So tonight I realized a huge bonus. Now my house is a welcome mat for console gamers and we play all the time here. The girls, my girlfriend and others girlfriends, get very bored with all the other systems or have little to no interest. My girlfriend is I beleive more excited about the Wii than I am! She loves oldskool Nintendo also. SO finally she will be into this also. SO I am uber stoked about this. She was so excited when we got it we decided to drive by the Target in the same parking lot with 30 people camping out freezing and hold the Wii up and holding down the horn. The look on their faces was priceless. We decided that was great and hit the Best and Circuit City by our house. We got, count em, four middle fingers! LOL .. priceless.... ANyway .. onto to set the syetem up and play for about five minutes and then off to bed for early work. Interested to know if anyone has any similar experience with the game systems and their significant others?

Kevin

Only someone from Jersey would drive through parking lots and love the middle fingers people were giving them. Have fun working on Sunday sucka, the rest of us will be playing.

[TequilaBoobs]

surprisingly, the wii sold out in 10 minutes in malawi.

[Dagless]

i was talking to my friend when we were sitting out for our Wiis...and we felt bad for people outside of America! I mean the Wii is pretty fun!:D

Well it's only December the 8th. I mean just under 3 weeks? That is nothing compared to how shafted we normally get! March 07 :D :D :D

I think it's also interesting that the Playstation 3 is launched in America, with the right numbers of stock it could have destroyed the Wii launch. But with there being so many Wii's out there, it just feels like Sony had a great chance to snatch some market share.

I'd love to see what the market share of both Wii and PS3 is in America right now :D First time Nintendo have given Sony a bloody nose (in the non-handheld market) for quite a while!

[Chambana Kitty]

Here in Champaign, IL.....

By 10:30 pm Saturday night, all 20 tickets were gone at the 3 local walmarts and 7 tickets at the Meijer.

By 7:30 am Sunday, all 20ish tickets at Target were given out

By 8:30 am Sunday, all 12 tickets at Circuit City were gone

...so we waited at Toy R Us from 8 am to 9am. They had 19 tickets and I was the last one to get a ticket!! But I was just waiting in line with my boyfriend, who wanted the wii, so I declined my ticket and gave it to the boy behind me. :D .

The bestbuy here also had 102 available, but I do not know if they sold out too.

Goodluck to everyone who still wants one! ;)

[ReanimationLP]

Heh. Walmart is great.

We got 102 Wiis. ;) And everyone was spoken for before I even got off at 12am.

Whats even dumber is people kept lining up, even when we told them that they weren't getting one.

[zap2]

Well it's only December the 8th. I mean just under 3 weeks? That is nothing compared to how shafted we normally get! March 07 :D :D :D
!

Wow...March 07...that SO long...sucks to be a PS3 fan there!

[zap2]

Whats even dumber is people kept lining up, even when we told them that they weren't getting one.


That happen at my line...some lady comes up at 6 or 7 am...we all so "No Wiis left) , she looked at us Like we were attack her, and told us to go away.


I was like WTF? Why would I go away...I have a Wii ticket.

[twoodcc]

I got my Wii today, I had to go to about 6 stores to finally get it and twice on the way I was just after the last person to get one at the store.

Anyway I just set it up to see if it would with with my EyeTv Hybrid, and everything seems great so far. So here is my setup. Everything goes together so well ^_^

that does look like a sweet setup

[Foxglove9]

Have fun working on Sunday sucka, the rest of us will be playing.

So cruel. I had to work on Sunday too so I was unable to buy one. However I will search this week for one.

[TheMonarch]

My local target had 51 units. I was lucky 31. I camped out straight after getting off work. Physically, It was horrible, but the people I met there were awesome. I've had this Wii since 8:00am and am so exhausted, I havent even opened the box.

What a weekend...

Oh, and Sunday I called in sick :D

[seenew]

By the time we 30 with tickets to buy the console actually got into the store, there were so many people wanting to get one that they were actually offering to buy our spots in line! $400!
I had to pass it up, though. I've been waiting for 2 years!

[bobber205]

I was hoping some poor fool would offer like 600 dollars for my Wii. No such luck.:p

[ericsthename]

Some of the dudes in that photo montage were incredibly greasy looking. Granted it's hard to look good waiting overnight in the cold, but seriously, there were haircuts in order!!!:p