Wii!

[ayashi]

I got in line for a Wii at midnight last night, with Shane and Erin.

I just got home... with a Wii, a second controller (missing the nunchuck piece or whatever... I felt rushed and didn't see it so I just let it go), and 3 games :D (Trauma Center: Second Opinion, Super Monkey Ball Wii, and Twilight Princess!!)

I am going to leave Super Monkey Ball and Zelda to play with Chris so we can experience them together but I am totally going to play Trauma Center in a few minutes!!!

But... Target ROCKS. They gave us tickets for our Wii systems at 7am, and then a few minutes later they came out... with soda and popcorn XD HA, eat that people who waited at Best Buy!! So I enjoyed some "breakfast" and yay I have a Wii!! The sad part was we could have woken up this morning early instead of spending the night (everyone who lined up at Target, even the people who got there at 6, got a ticket - they had 30 Wii systems and pretty close to 30 people showed up altogether)... but at least we got to wait INSIDE the mall instead of outside. I definitely never would have waited for the Wii if I had to wait outside.

We were completely unprepared too. I don't really think any of us really expected to actually wait in line. I brought a pillow and a tiny blanket, and NOTHING TO DO. Shane only brought his Nintendo DS and didn't have a pillow or a blanket. Erin brought a pillow and a blanket and...nothing to do! Haha. Shane played the Super Mario Bros. DS game - the MINI GAMES - for 6 hours. SIX HOURS!

We did meet a nice guy in line though! He was right behind us and apparently he camps out for new systems all the time. He must have money or something because he has bought practically every system ever on release :P

I'm not sure I would ever do it again - at least not without Chris. In fact I waited there BECAUSE of Chris, because I knew how much he wanted one. I really could have waited a couple of weeks haha XD but now we have one!

So that was my story of the first (and probably only) time I camped out to get a gaming system :D

Also because I got 3 games I got a $20 gift certificate, and it is the coolest gift certificate ever!!

When we arrived at Target at the mall and realized we would only be 15 and 16 in line... we all had to stop for a second and be like - wait. Are we really doing this? XDDD

Comments

[caster13.livejournal.com]

Your city must have a low gamer ratio or something because all the stores I just checked out had 50+ people in line ;_;

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

I live in a pretty country-like area. Our "city" which is kind of laughable to be called a city (I'm pretty sure that it technically no longer has "city" status in terms of population - once upon a time is was a bustling and prosperous place I believe but it just isn't anymore) does indeed have gamers, but really this whole area is just a small one, and relatively low-populated overall ^^;

[abbz38.livejournal.com]

A guy in my Hebrew class waited in line, and then some scary man paid him, and each of his two friends, $2000 to take their spots in line. $2000!

[doxamully.livejournal.com]

haha that's awesome! Congrats on your new gaming system :) I think the Wii > PS3 the ridiculously overpriced gaming system. You need to let us all know how awesome it is!

[roninalchemist.livejournal.com]

Wait, which Target? Up in Lanesboro? Yeah, we had 33 I think? I wish I could've been there, but oh well. So far Zelda is incredible, but I've only played 30 min of it.

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

Yes, that Target :) I played Zelda for about an hour (probably 20 minutes of which was figuring out the first real "puzzle" :P) and I'm really loving it!

[kendrasue.livejournal.com]

matt says: lol people who didnt get it at midnight :P