1. How long have you owned your Wii?
About four months. We got it about two or three weeks before Christmas.
2. What games do you own?
Wii Sports
Super Mario Galaxy
Rayman’s Raving Rabbids
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
Guitar Hero III (just bought it this weekend)
3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
None
4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
X-Box
Playstation
Sega Genesis
NES
Atari 2600
Magnavox Odyssey (yes, we’re going WAY back!)
(I’m counting the last two even though technically my parents bought them)
Also counting the PC, and the Handspring PDA that I played “Bejeweled” on so damned much that I wore a grid into the screen.
5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
Probably more than your average 45-year-old, but on a scale of 1 to 10 I’d say maybe a 3 or 4.
Having said that, my wife is actually the one who insisted on getting a Wii. (I think her exact words were, “If we get a big screen TV, we can get a Wii!” We got the Wii but I’m still waiting on the big screen TV. :)) I was planning on upgrading my X-Box to a 360 sometime this year but I haven’t even thought about it since we got the Wii. In fact, I think I’ve only played the X-Box a handful of times since then.
We got Super Mario Galaxy and the Rayman game partly because we thought the grandkids (7, 8 and 9) would enjoy them, but all they ever want to play is Wii Sports. That will probably change now that we have Guitar Hero.
Wii Sports
Wii Play
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Super Mario Galaxy
Battalion Wars II
Sonic and the Secret Rings
Need for Speed Pro-Street
3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
None
4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
Game Boy
Game Boy Color
5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
I usually only play online games, the only reason I have the GB was for the many long family road trips as a kid.
1. How long have you owned your Wii?
Since January 2007.
2. What games do you own?-Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
-Ghost Squad
-The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
-Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
-Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
-Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution
-Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
-Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
-Super Paper Mario
-Super Smash Bros. Brawl
-Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
-WiiPlay
-WiiSports
Plus various Virtual Console games
3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
-Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
-Pokemon Battle Revolution
4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
-Atari 7800
-Gameboy (Original, Color, Advance, Advance SP)
-Gamecube
-PC (used occasionally for gaming)
-Wii
5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
Definitely.
1. How long have you owned your Wii?
Since April 2007
2. What games do you own?
Cooking Mama Cook Off
Super Smash Bros Brawl
Petz Dogz 2
Bratz the Movie
Bee Movie Game
Disney Enchanted Journey
Pokemon Battle Revolution
Super Paper Mario
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords
Zack and Wiki
Open Season
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
Super Mario Galaxy
Metroid Prime 2: Corruption
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots
Dragon Blade
Shrek the Third
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
Elebits
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Happy Feet
Wii Play
Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Boogie
Brunswick Pro Bowling
Mario Party 8
The Godfather: Blackhand Edition
Mario Strikers Charged
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
Manhunt 2
The Simpsons Game
High School Musical: Sing It
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent
Barnyard
Disney Pixar Cars
Ninjabread Man
Billy the Wizard
Far Cry
Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz
Spiderman 3
Madden 07
Tamagotchi: Party On
Excite Truck
Rampage: Total Destruction
Star Wars: The Complete Saga
and Wii Sports
3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
None for the Wii. I buy 'em all (usually used)
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4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?**
Wii
Xbox 360
Game Boy Advance
PS2
PSOne
NES
Game Boy
Atari 2600
5-in-1 Pong Game 5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
Not until I compiled this list. I guess so.
1. How long have you owned your Wii?
Since launch.
2. What games do you own?
Currently:
Elebits
Zelda
Super Paper Mario
Mario Party 8
Wii Play
Boogie
Excite Truck
A ridiculous amount of the virtual console titles
Red Steel
3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
I don’t find it worth the usual rental rates for most games…
4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
Tandy 1000
TI 99/4A
Amiga 500
Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo
Nintendo 64
Gamecube w/ Gameboy Player
Atari Lynx
Playstation
PSOne with screen
PS2 (old version)
PS2 (new version)
PSP Phat
PSP Lite
Gameboy
Gameboy pocket
Gameboy color
Gameboy Advance
Gameboy Micro
DS Phat
DS Lite
Xbox
Xbox 360 (launch model)
Xbox 360 Elite
Mulitple PCs used mainly for gaming over the years, usualy self-built
Original Macintosh
Intellivision
5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
Yep. And now that I’ve listed them out, I realize I’m a compulsive gaming nerd who must own every system! Well, the NES to PS1 era I didn’t buy many systems. I got the N64 and Gamecube after the Wii launch…
Analysis:
I play Excitebike more than anything else on the Wii. And I ‘play’ Everyone Votes more than Excitebike. Given that I have so many other consoles, I look to the Wii for non-traditional gaming, but I’m not sure that it’s worth it to me, even though I do love it.
How long have you owned your Wii?
Just after last Christmas.
What games do you own?
Guitar Hero III, SSBros Brawl, Excite Truck, Sports, Rabbids 1, Pokemon Stadium, Transformers, Spider-Man (I was hoping for awesome. It’s still fun to swing around Manhattan, at least) Play, a golf game I forget the name of.
What games have you rented/borrowed?
I don’t rent games.
What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
Pong. Atari 2600. NES. GBAC. PS2, GBASP. DS Lite.
Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
You could say that… though I’m a PC gamer by preference. And if we included my game machines, you’d see the wreckage of (mumble) years of electronics in my closet…
Sports, Play, Zelda, Trauma Center, Marvel Super Heroes, Monkey Ball, RE4, Metroid, SMBG, Link’s Crossbow Training, SSBM, Harvey Birdman, and a few more that I can’t think of off the top of my head.
None.
Er… all of them. Well except XBox 360 and a PS3. Okay, there might be one or two other very low key ones that I don’t own but if a console has sold more than a million units I have one and I have quite a few that didn’t.
I’m not sure if this will help or not, I have a Wii in the house, but am not much of a console gamer. The kids play the Wii more than anyone else.
About a year
Sports, Play, Mario Galaxy.
I’m sure other stuff (Brainiac4 actually uses the console and rents games for the kids and himself, he may tell you).
In the house we have a Playstation 2, XBox360, 4 PCs. We’ve owned a Playstation 1.
Not really, I can get through songs on Medium on guitar hero. And I play a lot of City of Heroes. So more than your average 41 year old mother of two. But Brainiac4 will wax philosophically that we are all gamers - that I play minesweeper, solitaire and catch with my kids and that makes me a gamer - although my aversion to Halo3 may keep me from being a “Gamer.”
Oh, here is the thing about the Wii. Brainiac4’s 68 year old mother was over a weekend or so ago, and she was “bowling” with the kids. Not that she is going to go out and buy a Wii, but you won’t find her button smashing “War of the Monsters” with her grandson. On the other hand, she is a “gamer” - she plays computer games like Bejeweled, Myst and Solitaire.
What the Wii has done is its captured some of the “Bejeweled” market from the PC to consoles. Now, you can say that people who don’t play FPSs and have aren’t gamers - they themselves probably wouldn’t identify as such, but its sort of a snobbish elitism. Plus, its timing is great. Many moms aren’t thrilled with kids sitting on the couch smashing buttons. They are more interested in a dance pad, a guitar controller, or a Wii nunchuck - at least the kid is moving.
The rest of my family is currently playing RockBand on the 360 - the drums were bought last night and my eight year old daughter is the drummer. Our nine year old genetically preprogrammed boy is on guitar and Brainiac4 is being bored out of his skull by bass. I’m being recruited to try vocals.
