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Originally posted by: Ceric
You get 40% off... Wow...
thats at my other job (hot topic). i found out there are two different discounts i can get at NWS: one is a walk in discount. basically if i buy something on my day off or before i leave work while im there i get 10% off (excluding hardware). they do have a special holiday discount where they order stuff for you thru nintendo and its a much bigger discount (not sure exactly how much though) but i need a credit card for that. it ships to the store in 1-2 business days. sounds like a much better deal to me
anyway my first day was amazingly fun.
i showed up early and wandered around the city cuz i didnt want to hang out IN the store. it would look unprofessional (atleast i thought so). five minutes before im scheduled to clock in i ask one of the guys for the manager and he gives him a ring. while we're waiting he asks if i played Wii yet. I hadnt and he said "well come here and lets get you ready to play, you're gonna have to show everyone else how to play so you gotta learn too!"
i started a game of wii tennis and didnt bother having him explain the controls. it felt great. i was actually a little upset when the manager came and dragged me away from it
. my first impression of the controller in my hand was that it was soo light. i couldnt believe that..
we walk downstairs, he sits me in the staff room and asks t hat i read over a few things and to write down any questoins i have. it was a packet that is basically everything you'll find on the wii site, really basic info about it and its major launch titles, as well as a list of games in the launch window. i skimmed thru it just in case and met a few more members of the team while they were on break, two of them which played a game of smash bros. melee (i was too shy to join, i had new kid syndrome). they actually have three tvs in the breakroom; one hooked up to a dvd player, and two hooked up to various consoles (i saw two GC, a Snes, Nes, Dreamcast and Genesis) and a small shelf with a few games (im suprised there werent more). the manager came back and got my shirt size, came back later and had one but it was too big. came back later after that with one that fit better but i had to use a steamer to get the wrinkles out. when im done he was on the phone so i waited in the staff room and talked to a very nice girl that worked there. manager finally came back, gave me a name tag and gave me a brief meeting about their policies. he sent me upstairs with another manager and gave me a quick tour.
during this tour i was taken upstairs and got to play excite truck for a quick round. Sleeper Hit of the season. thats all i can say. its one of those games where you see it and its like "oh thats cool, i should give it a shot" but you never have enough incentive to do so. you really should though, it was crazy fun. again, he started explaining the controls to me but i already knew them, so we're coming off the starting line and i boost accidentaly..i hit the dpad to steer. i felt like an idiot because i went straight into a river or something because i forgot i had to steer. it really is a hard habbit to break, but in no time i got the hang of it, i got the feel for how sensetive the wiimote was while steering and i was landing some awesome air, and gettign some pretty cool crashes as well.
after that i was taken backdown stairs, actually back to where i spoke to the guy that introduced me to wiisports. i was stationed with him and simply had to help show people how to play and answer any questions they might have. there were a few things i learned from him actually. like in wiibaseball there are different picthes you can execute by holding down certain buttons. i was just telling people to throw lol.
i had people trying the wii out from litereally age 5 to atleast 50. also five or six people from europe (tourists) absolutely loved it and kept asking when it would be released. their follow up question was always the same as well, is it region encoded. also there were many girls and older women playing as well. one mom i actually saw playing Boxing! she loved it.
i cant begin to explain how much fun that was. i was just standing there either playing or showing people how to play for five hours before i took a break. i didntw ant to leave... when i wasnt playing i was wishing i was playing. i just wanted to snatch the remote out of peoples hands and hog it too myself.
on a lil sidenote about wiisports, the boxing is so far my personal favorite game on the disc. the movements are so intuitive and its made so that if you just try to rapid fire punch and flail your arms around like an idiot to "cheat" you're not going to land any hits. i saw many of the younger kids doing this and getting knocked out, y et the older guys who know a thing or two about boxing and take their time properley blocking and ducking side to side always landed a hit. the other great thing about it is how amusing it can be for even on lookers. this one kid knocked the cpu down for the count. as its counting the kid is taunting him, shaking his fist or gesturing for the downed man to get up. when the count got to around 8 or 9 the kid started pumping his fist in the air and so did the Mii on screen. all the onlookers were VERY impressed. in fact everyone was very impressed. i heard nothing but good things about it all day, and some of these people were people off the street that were drawn in by the crowds.
wii is going to be a hit, and if it isnt t hen there ju st arent enough outlets for people to get out there and try the thing! i remember when i first held the wiimote in my hadn and started playing tennis, then the rest of the games...all i could think of was "playing really is believing". even after work, when i had gotten home and told my mom all about work and she saw how much fun i had (smiled aaaaalll day) she kept saying she wanted to give it a try because it sounds fun.
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