Topic: Wii GET! ***Official "I GOT WEE" thread***

[Jerman]

I got to Wal-Mart at 9 AM. Figured I should, with the stir the PS3 made. Good thing I did. Was 9th in line, and scored everything I was hoping for:

Wii
Monkey Ball
Rayman
Excite Truck
Zelda: Twilight Princess

2 Controllers
2 Nunchucks
Classic Controller
A points card

And my component cables arrived on Friday. Played about 2 hours of Zelda tonight, but I am going to go hit the sack now. Happy gaming!

[GoldenPhoenix]

I have to tell yah my first impression of Wii had to be the slickness of the console itself, I'm sorry but the Wii is probaly the most gorgeous system I've seen, it is small yet looks futuristic. One area where I've changed my mind for the better is the Wii system menu/channels, I really like the look of it now, everything looks so polished and professional. Kind of dissapointed that the Opera browser isn't available yet, but I'm not going to worry too much about it.

[KnowsNothing]

I did not get Wii.

Walmart lied about when they were handing out tickets, so I was too late when I got there.  Target had around 120 people in line.  Best Buy had 45 units.

I was number 46 in line.

[wandering]

I got one. Waiting in line all day at Wal-Mart was fun.

....no, really. We waited inside, in the training room. They provided chairs. We watched Spaceballs.

Playing Wii is also fun.

[Caterkiller]

I waited at the L.A. Party and for the most part I had a great time. Nintendo fans weren't killing each other. We played amazing Mario Kart, and Tetris battles. I met Matt from IGN, got to talk with him a bit, and he took an awesome photo with me posing as Spider-Man. Met George Harrison, got to talk with him for a nice amount of time. Was alot of fun, I was one of the first to get theres, and did a few interviews for tv. Oh boy I had a good time. And I sware, I didn't find a single person who was trying to sell theres on EBAY. There well over 700 people at this launch, it was awesome.

I will post pictures, soon, but right now I have a stunt class, then its ZELDA ZELDA ZELDA!  

[BranDonk Kong]

I got mine at 9:00 (ish) at Best Buy, along with Zelda, so did EVERY OTHER FREAKING PERSON IN LINE. Well, almost everybody. This one girl bought about 5 games and the organizing case and extra controllers. I'd love to give impressions, but my console has been updating for about 2 effing hours!

[Kairon]

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Originally posted by: Shorty McNostril
Hey Kairon, where is your sensor bar at?

*looks left*

*looks right*

Are you talking to me???

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Ghisy]

YES!!!
I got one from Amazon: it's being shipped to a friend in Cali then shipped to me!!
So hopefully, I should be able to play the Wii in about 10 days! ^_^

[BiLdItUp1]

BRAIN DUMP

Hahaha...the TRU @ times square had so much stuff...they were handing out copies of Zelda like candy; all the stuff was in huge bins...almost bought red steel, didn't...still in need of a real multi-player game (besides Wii Sports). No pictures until the Lumenlab Evo comes (another ten days)

Took subway at 6. Played Zelda tracks from OCRemix on the way. Zelda music comes on exactly when I get off; taking this as a sign, did mad dash. Fun.

Segways were insane. I didn't get to see Reggie, as I was on line. Total about 8 hrs wait. (6 to around 2, when I finally got to buy.) Met cool dude on line, glad. There were girls there! Not that many were waiting in front of Circuit City for PS3 two nights ago (saw the line on the way to Casino Royale). More glad. Brought laptop w/Celebrity Jeopardy on it, and my DS, and (sadly) my Econ textbook. No free Wifi (why I wasn't posting from the event). Gripe: cashier gave me stupid ToysRUs bag, not cool cardboard Nintendo bag like most ppl. Ah well. Still got free shwag (Iron-on thingamajig, baseball hat, winter hat, some ppl got tshirts too)

At the end, actually caught a cab in NYC. Yay! Home by two. Ppl evidently OD'd in dorm; ambulance, public safety outside. Downer for 1/2hr, big downer. Eventually snapped out of it. Got to room, slowly opened package, packed up GC. Unpacked Wii. Double Yay! (Time: about 3:20, somehow took an hour to unpack GC (was setting up air mattress and cleaning up room at the same time)

Wii Sports Tennis was cool (had a friend, fun). Baseball was annoying, could not get into it. Zelda - only got to ride Epona (whom I've named Crystal) for a while, though that was fun. Doors in village seemed to be locked. At this pt, it was 4:45, and we both have long Sundays, so we fell asleep.

Wii remote controls - finicky at first, got used to them. May be that it was stacked on top of my DVD player. Moved it down a bit, will try out ltr today (work to do). Altogether - the whole damn thing is pretty anti-climactic., not like Cube launch for me at all. At the very least,  I read NOTHING about TP, so everything is new to me. My theory: I need Brawl. NOW

I'm gonna pick up a real multiplayer game once I actually try it out, to tide me over till ssb:b

According to Firefox 2 spellchecker, 'multiplayer' isn't a word (nor is 'spellchecker', for that matter).

good bye my friends  

[King of Twitch]

I camped out. Longest, coldest night of my life sitting under a blanket of fog but it paid off. I found a Target at 9pm, was the 21st person in line, and they opened promptly at 8am. The place I went to was very organized, the crowds were calm and fun to talk to; they passed out tickets and order forms(!) to fill out at 7am. They had 69 units and the same number of Zeldas.

Got my extra controller set, a VC card and Zelda. Going to go try Wii Sports pretty soon and Zelda later today.

[Pale]

I got one after a ton of stress this morning.  VG and Smash can see my post in the people who didn't get one thread for my admission of being wrong on the readily availableness of them.

So this is how my system went down.  I shot over to Target (who opened at 8am) at around 5:45 this morning.  When I get there no one is in line and I'm puzzled.  I park my car and figure I'll stay warm for as long as I can.  Then some security guard kicks me out of the parking lot saying no one is allowed on the property until 7am.  That explained why no one was there.  Anyway, I pace around until around 6:50 and shoot back over.  I'm second in line.  HURRAY.  Then this huge line of ass hats come walking over from the Lowes that is like a quarter mile away and claimes they made a list and that i had to move.  Of course I'm like, "Like i'm believing your stupid list, you can get in line behind me"

Shouting ensued and the dumb Target manager decided he would solve it with a raffle.  A god damn raffle.  So on the spot they hand out tickets.  I got my fiance to get one too even though we only wanted on system.  When all was said and done, we had two out of around 100 tickets and they pulled 42 out for systems.  One of our numbers got called and I lucked out.

God damn, what a stressful morning.  

[Smash_Brother]

I was stunned when I called Wal-Mart at 3:30 PM and they said 6 people were already waiting, and the hick town wal-mart had SIXTEEN people waiting at the same time.

I thought they'd be easier to get this. I managed to get one for me and one for either my parents or my coworker and his kids: I'm convinced one of the two will want one.

[KnowsNothing]

If they don't want it, you're selling it to me.  THIS IS AN ORDER.

[trip1eX]

The gods were with me. Finally.


I went to 5 or 6 different stores this morning (after being at Walmart at midnight last night) and all were sold out or had more folks in line than the store had Wiis.

And then I happened upon a Sears with 3 people in line. It was almost nine o'clock too. And only 3 in line??? And thank goodness the couple in front of me was only buying one Wii because Sears only had 3 Wiis.  

I was the cutoff. 3rd in line for 3 Wiis.

So I got one and it looks like they are sold out everywhere around.

But as much as I want to play it I might Ebay it. It looks like you can make a couple hundred right now.  :?  Hhhmmmm.  

[Smash_Brother]

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Originally posted by: KnowsNothing
If they don't want it, you're selling it to me.  THIS IS AN ORDER.

Sure, and because I own a home business, I can actually just charge your credit card.

But I'm still rather certain my parents will want the thing once they try it, especially when my mother realizes it's exercise for my father.

[D_MaN87]

Got mine at 8am at Best Buy, Scarborough Ontario.  Got to the lineup at 9:30pm Saturday.  At that time, only about 10 people.  I was number 13.  This store got 55 units.  I saw many people walk away unhappy.  Currently playing zelda, and finished toying with wii sports.

[ShreddersDojo]

Quick report...

Wayne TRU:

Arrived, 10:40PM. Luckilly no dear hit. 40 people in line, 20 intending to get a Wii...
12PM: Same situation, two extra people behind me.

1AM: Mis judged the cold, went inside car for 4 hours.

5AM, waited till 5:30, went back out line. Line now goes beyond TRU to the route road, almost around the building.

8:30AM: Call father, saying I think it would be a good idea if you drove here, we leave one car there, we drive home in my car. Dead tired, cold getting too me with only a sweatshirt on.

8:45 re-inforcments arrive via one parent and winter clothes, ala jacket, glove, and hat . It was only for an hour, but well worth it .

9:50AM: Manager lets people in, (Who I thought was an antsy customer counting people ahead of him to see how far behind he was in line. He obviously didn't need me to tell them they only had 85 units ), I get my Wii after I teach my legs how to walk again. 12 hour experience done in 5 minutes .

Picked up Dragonball and Zelda.

See you in five years )

[Kairon]

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Originally posted by: ShreddersDojo
See you in five years

We'll hold you to that.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[segagamer12]

I got mine this morning at 8:05 AM had to drive 50miles to nearest town to get one. Waited in line at K-mart, I was so right I figured if I went to K-mart nobody else would go there cuz our K-mart is way outta the way and sucks, and I was right! I must admit my first impression of the thing was it seams so small.


I do have 1 major gripe, the Wiishop channel SUCKS!!!!!!! I waited for over an HOUR! for that damn thing to laod and they promised TG-16 games at launch and none were available. Also the web browser doesnt work yet.


So after an hour of waiting I reset mysystem (called Nintendo five times inbetween no answer) then it finally worked. My frist two VC Dls were Sim City and something Key forgot the name but it was fun.


Wii sports is better than I imagined! I like the Bowling and Golf, the seam to work well. Boxing was fun but often unresponsive, Baseball sucked and Tennis also was hard to get to work right.

My sister bought me Zelda TP but she is still in KS for another two weeks so I wont get to play that till seh gets here. But so far the Wii is loads of fun

[Rhoq]

Went to the Toys "R" Us in Deptford, NJ for the midnight sale. Arrived to witness a sea of 200+ people for (160 systems). No go.

People were camping-out in front of the Deptford Target. At that time there were 22 people in line for 68 systems. We headed back towards Philly to try the 24-hour Wal-Mart at Franklin Mills. After 5 minutes of busy signals on the phone, I finally got through and was basically told not even to bother trying since the line was already massive and well beyond theit stock.

My friend decided the only way we would get a Wii was if we camped-out. We headed back to Target and were numbers 26 & 27 in line. We arrived around 10 PM. The quota was reached at about 6 AM. Security began running down the rules around 6:30 AM and handed out a "shopping list" at 6:45 AM and our official numbers at 7 AM. The store opened exactly 8 AM and we were escorted to electronics for check-out.

I came home, took a shower and slept for roughly 3.5 hours. I woke up and hooked-up my Wii. I've only played Red Steel and Monkey Ball, so far. I also have Excite Truck, Trauma Center and Zelda.

[MarioAllStar]

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Originally posted by: Kairon

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Originally posted by: ShreddersDojo
See you in five years

We'll hold you to that.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Everyone make a Wii memo for November 19, 2011.

[Ceric]

Update:

20 Pack of d_Skins

I'm using one to protect Wii Sports initial they make some noise but work find  So I'm using them on all my games so the don't get scratched.

[Dirk Temporo]

My night was... Interesting.

I went to the 24-hour Wal-Mart expecting to wait inside, but what do I find but a bunch of people camped outside. Turns out it was up to the store manager, and I guess she decided to be a douche. So we sat down and hung around. Talked to the people in front of us in the line, they were cool. As it turns out, the stupid store manager had decided she didn't want to deal with keeping track of the line, so she gave #1 a notepad, and told him to make a list, and keep track of it. And of course, what does he do besides sell spots in line? Not to mention he was a total dick in the first place. He kept coming back to the end of the line and telling us there was no point in waiting and that we should just leave.

Interesting side story, a guy walked up to me and said "Dirk?" and naturally I thought it was Smash_Brother because he said he might head out there, but it actually turned out to be a guy I know from ANOTHER forum where my name is also Dirk Temporo, so that was cool.

Anyway, it became fairly evident that we weren't going to get one at midnight at Wal-Mart, so we decided to go to Target. The people who were in front of us at Wal-Mart wound up being right behind us at Target, because they didn't get one either, so we talked to them some more. It certainly was an interesting experience waiting outside in the cold for fourteen hours. Not so sure I'd want to repeat that experience. But we did finally get one, so all was well. Unfortunately, I can't play it until Thursday because it's a birthday present. ;_;

[Babyboy8100]

I got mine today at 11am waited in line at a local Toys'R'Us since 5am but i finally was able to get a Wii, xtra wiimote and numchuck got Zelda and red steel, Rayman Ravvin rabids. i'm still playing Zelda though witch i think is going to consume all my time for now i love it....by the way the TRU that i went to they had a line of about 100 people and i saw everyone getting one TRU must of be Nintendo's favorite or something because even Target had only 40 something Wii's.
oh this stupid guy bought a Wii like around 7am went by there trying to sell it for $600 what a moron not only did he get booed but everyone was telling him off. you F'N Geek get the F out of here before we bust a PS3 and jack your Wii.lol

[31 Flavas]

here are some photo's of my wii. Notice the t-shirt.

tEh photos

Edit: My friends and I blasted Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" with the windows wide open, all the way to shopping center.