Some Basic Information on Nintendo's Wii for Nongamers

Video games and video game systems are quite complicated. Many people likes to play games. But if you can't devote a lot of time or you aren't born with an ingrain video game skill, most games are just too hard for the normal adult person.

Knowing all of this, I was a little reluctant to buy a Wii by Nintendo. I saw the ads on the television (plus the one that my local Wal-Mart plays continuously back in the electronics department). The machine looked so interesting. My family and I could actually get up off of the sofa to play these games. We could get exercise and have fun.

But could looks be deceiving? Would it be that easy for my husband and I to play it?

We gambled. We went on Ebay, found a great deal, a week later the Wii arrived at our doorstep. (Our local stores are only getting few Wii systems in stock at a time and they sell out quick. My hubby hates to wait.)

It was easy to set up? Okay, that was no feat. We also easily set up our Playstation 2 and our Xbox machines. That doesn't mean we can play the games.

The first thing, we did was input the date and time. Again, this was easy.

Now the fun part began. We got to create our Mii characters. Mii's are characters in which we can use to play our Wii games. You can give them names, choose their sex, hair color, put hats on them, give them beards, choose their hair style and dress color. That part was fun and I found my finished Mii to be adorable.

After that we put in the Wii sports game that came with the Wii machine. For those who do not know anything about the Wii system, it comes with one game disk. (Imagine that, a free game!). This game is called Wii sports. It includes, bowling, baseball, tennis, boxing and golf.