The Wallflower Report

So my friend Paris finally got some better video games for her Wii, and all it took was me borrowing Judy’s credit card and her neighbor’s unsecured wireless connection. So far she’s got River City Ransom, Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3, Bubble Bobble, the Legends of Kage and Zelda, and Metroid.

Okay, so all those games are from like the 1980s but playing them on the Wii lets you take advantage of all the amazing technological advancements that have come about since then. Like not having to blow in the cartridge or jiggle it around eleven or twenty different ways to get it to load.

Though I guess with the Wii’s motion sensing thing they could make a console-jiggling minigame in front of the actual game. And some DS games have “blow on the microphone” minigames. Maybe somebody could combine the two to make a real virtual console, that accurately recreates the experience of playing games on an original NES system? I don’t know. It seems like there might be a market for that, for nostalgia or whatever.

Whatever. I’m gonna go jiggle Judy’s handbag and see if I can’t shake loose any more games.

~Ariella Rasputin Wallflower

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