The Nintendo Wii is evil!

I spent the better part of the evening playing that damned machine and I'm pretty sure that the muscle damage to my right arm that I sustained tonight trying to pitch a 90mph fastball or serve a tennis ball will be catching up with me in a few hours to the point that I don't think I will be able to lift up my arm. Already I've got that "dead" feeling to my arm. Of course after a solid hour of trying to be the next Nolan Ryan, I was told that it's really more about the wrist than anything...they just let me and my friend go on like that to make spectacles of ourselves...nice huh? So I guess its not the Wii that is evil, more like my friends and family!

The only plus was I did work up a good sweat

I bought it last year thinking the family would get some exercise. Took us about 5 minutes to learn we could play it from the couch and we do.

but your bottom may go numb.

I play quite a bit of traditional video games :P

I just have to wait until I recover

btw, welcome to DU :hi:

Hope all is well soon!

:hi:

:-)

up, down, left, right, A, B, start, select were all you needed to have a good time

I'm comfortable with that for now. :-)

"up up down down left right left right B A B A start" was always the magic trick for maximum Nintento fun!

Guitar Hero twists my hands into a pretzel though

I really only played the "Call of Duty" series on it. And "Ace Combat 4". But mostly I was living the last "good" war we had.

Man, I want to get a real, Army-issue Garand one day.

We had two wiis going at once. One had Wii Sports (mostly bowling, some tennis) the other had a variety of games. We played dodgeball about 30 times I think. It was a blast. We laughed ourselves silly and worked up a good sweat too. My right arm is sore as well.

I was playing tennis and was actually grunting while hitting the ball

face in Dodgeball (well, our characters got smacked in the face, anyway). You get so into it! It's such a blast.

I have hurt myself playing it too. Guess I am too old!