That's cute. I'm going to send those nice people a copy of Manhunt.

I'm sure there's a joke here about old guys being able to play with their Wii's again, but I can't think of it.

they'll love Wii shuffleboard

mediaho [TotalFark]

That's cute. I'm going to send those nice people a copy of Manhunt.

They'll have to pry Cocoon out of the Beta player.

Damned Koopas won't get off my lawn.

mediaho I LOL'd.

"Grandma, no. Put the plastic bag down, Grandma."

"Mom! Nanna's doing the thing with the broken pill bottle again!"

"God, I hate visiting Opa. He keeps trying to shank me."

I would totally play wii shuffleboard. I Love shuffleboard.

I had a great, great uncle who thought that Duck Hunt what the shiat about 20 years ago. He was awesome.

Wait until they discover Second Life.

wii sex is awesome

"While those rivals focused on cutting-edge graphics and high-tech bells and whistles, Nintendo focused on making game play easier, more intuitive and more appealing to a mass market."

Hey, I remember that same strategy!!


Worked too.

/nothing new under the sun
//kind of like today's news choices on Fark

My dad has 3 perfect games on Wiisports bowling, and about 5 more in the 290s. He's obsessed.

Humean_Nature
I would laugh, by my wife's German grandfather did try to stab me.

/thank god he's dead.

EmmaLou
UGH... the fact that Duck Hunt is now about 20 years old makes me want to be ill.

THE HouseCat: Worked too.

Sure did. Ever hear of games like Archon from a little development house that probably went out of business now. What was their name again? Had a cube, sphere and cone for their logo. They can't possibly be making games any more.

Metamucil: The Game

wii is whooping ass and only been out under 5 months (Xbox360 a little over a year
http://www.vgcharts.org/

rpm

Did they not have the same name as Ed Asner's initials, or was that some other little outfit?

/paid $399 for my C-64 in 1983
//thought; "all this power for that kind of price!"
///how much more computer could someone need??

SwiftFox

They already have. My grandma and grandpa live in Sun City, Texas outside of Austin...the biggest farking retirement community ever. A lot of the old people their play SecondLife.

there play second life

Hold the Wiimote in your hand, and wave it in the air until all the kids are off your lawn.

Dammit, thats why I can't find one anywhere in Toronto! All the old people with nothing better to do are buying them up! You need to wait in line at Future Shop or Best Buy to get one, and of course only the unemployed or retired can stand in line during business hours to get one. This is the first system that I actually want since the original NES, and I can't farking get one!

I think at this point it may be safe to officially declare the Wii a cultural phenomenon. We now have stories of people from under 2 years old to over 80 years old playing the things. Other than the TV when was the last time something hit the market and had this broad of appeal? Nintendo keeps selling the things as fast as they can build them and have been since they day the thing came out.

WoW is pretty popular among retirees, as well. My dad, before jumping ship to my guild full of twenty-something raiders, was in a guild almost entirely made of folks who would disappear with their husbands/wives for two to three weeks for Caribbean cruises and the like.

Well, at least I don't have to wonder if I should buy it, now that it's been made uncool.

rpm: Ever hear of games like Archon from a little development house that probably went out of business now. What was their name again? Had a cube, sphere and cone for their logo. They can't possibly be making games any more.

Free Fall Associates made the game. Distributed by EA.

Myriad Interactive bought the rights and plans on selling a new version this year.

"And the company, a former underdog best known for fun, high-quality games based on off-beat characters like plumbers - think Mario Bros. -..."


What are the odds that anyone reading this article would need help figuring out that they were referring to Mario?

This sucks. I was looking around for a wii online, and I got frustrated, so I came to fark.

AND I READ THIS.

GAAH!

no wonder I can't get a wii. Freaking old people camping at the Best Buy and Target.

Baron-H

Used to live a few klicks from Sun City. Maybe when it is 104 for 2 months they can play wii golf instead.

rpm: Had a cube, sphere and cone for their logo.

Electronic Arts

If it can happen to rock and roll, it can happen to video games - a time will come when only old people are interested.

Ahh, the Wii, how I love thee. I just downloaded Excite Bike...ahh memories.

/damn bike overheats way too fast

2007-03-24 01:15:21 AM Im in ur Fark

Well, at least I don't have to wonder if I should buy it, now that it's been made uncool.

I wouldn't let a few older folks playing a video game turn me off onto buying one. They are pretty popular and hard as hell to find. I can literally walk into wal mart target or best buy and trip over the xbox 360 and ps3 laying around. Can't even find a wii remote in any of the stores.

/wait a few weeks until the stories come out of old folks breaking various body parts playing the games.
//played rayman:raving rabbids and now my shoulders hurt.

Say what you will that article gave me permagrin. That is too farking cool they're having fun with the wii. The shot of the lady with the wiimote grinning her ass off is priceless.

this was nintendo's idea all along
go nintendo
yeah, she is great

WhyteRaven74, skankboy, and,THE HouseCat.

I do beleive that rpm is talking about 3DO.

Unless EA bought them... which they probably have.

You people joke about sending manhunt or somesuch to your grandparents to play...

Think for a second. A lot of our grandparents fought in actual wars.. they might be decent at shooters...

And I fear playing my grandmother in momma cooks...

I fear my grandma in Mortal Kombat revskippy. Never have I played someone so, so cheap as her with sub zero. Her favorite is the first Zelda though.

MisterRPG

Hold the Wiimote in your hand, and wave it in the air until all the kids are off your lawn.

I'm pretty sure that's already one of the games in Wario Ware.

man, a lot of people enjoy playing that wii sports bowling, and its just a generic game that comes free with the console. Now if Nintendo does this sort of shiat and also caters to the hardcore crowd, then the Wii will be one pleasing console across the board.

/lovin' the wii

My grandmother is 93 next month. She still lives in the house she has owned for almost 50 years. She climbs the trees in her back yard to prune them, and gets on her roof to clean off the "chef hats" on the roof. In Los Angeles. She would ace Wii if she had the damn time. She has better shiat to do. God bless her.

drgruney

I was thinking this logo:



Or is my "descriptive image identification" shot all to pieces??

/it's possible!

drgruney

WhyteRaven74 had it right the first time around. However, you both seem to have missed the sarcasm in the comment.

/That game was hard.

I am the only that had Vic-20?

mrGQ

I missed out on the VIC20, at that time I was busy building a Sinclair ZX-81 (only $200 for the kit and it had a blistering 1K memory).

My first year in college the school had just gotten rid of a bunch of old Burroughs key punch machines and replaced them with a room full of Commodore PETs (woohoo, 8K)
We had one cassette machine to service all 12 PETs

/computers have improved a bit since then

revskippy

You're so right. I used to target shoot with my grandfather, a World War II vet and at 70 he was still far better than anyone there. I'd bet he would have enjoyed a Wii.

That seriously brings a tear to my eye. My parents introduced me to video games (early 80s Atari 2600, my dad had high scores kept above his work bench. Never could beat him at Steeplechase).

Definitely going home next week to convince my 63-year-old father to stop trying to beat Doom 3 on the Xbox1 and pick up a Wii.

FTFA and is generating its own buzz with everyone from nuns to cancer patients...

"There's no hope for me, but my grandparents love it."