Now that was fun! Last night we were at our Middle Daughter’s house and both before and after dinner, we joined that large crowd of folks who have Wii’ed at least once in their lives. We’re veterans now. And as an elder, I can recommend it for those over 65. Want to get your heart rate up? Do a couple rounds of Wii boxing! Too aggressive a sport? There’s Wii tennis and baseball. And if you’re really sedentary; try Wii bowling. It can be played while seated if necessary. It’s even good for you!
Middle Daughter’s family has the perfect setup for the game; large screen TV at one end of a lengthy living room. You have all kinds of room to throw the perfect strike…baseball or bowling.
The programming is great; I would love to see the logic charts used to control the flow of the games. And I wonder how many lines of code were used to make the baseball player glance upward after hitting a foul pop up over his head? The graphics are good and I can imagine that they will only get better. I can only imagine what they might be with HDD and a High Definition monitor. But, Nintendo doesn’t have it available…yet.
So I started looking around the gaming world this morning, trying to learn a little more about it. Very complicated. ‘Gamers’ seem to control the direction and focus of the programmers and most of the games seem to be of the violent shooter genre. I didn’t spot many friendly games out there. Nintendo seems to have the best of those. For computing power, it looks like Sony (Play Station) has the best going, especially since it can use Blu-Ray technology and that appears to be the winner in the
Sounds like fun! It is a bit pricey but that will come down eventually. Erin and Mike invested some $$ in a local company creating game software for the much anticipated Stargate game. From the news article recently, I think they may have made a good investment. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=11EB6FD43ABF17D0&p_docnum=1&p_theme=gannett&s_site=azcentral&p_product=ARPB The name of the company is Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and they are running a contest to get your personal character written into the cast of characters...pretty good marketing idea. See their website at http://www.cheyenneme.com/
ReplyDeleteI'm having bad luck with the links. The Stargate World site was unavailable and Archives wouldn't let me see anything!
ReplyDeleteI did find this... http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/stargateworlds/news.html?sid=6167289
Which only validated my opinion that 'gamers' are different from me. But, there's a whole bunch of them and they spend money like crazy! I bet they do well with their investment.