Picked up a Wii today

[GoatMother]

Since the woman has shown interest and she loves the DS I decided to bite and will be suprising her tonight.

Fry's had a bundle that was fair enough. Two games plus system for $349.99

So I've got:
Wario Ware: Smooth Movies
Big Brain Academy
extra Wiimote with 9 mini games(Wii Play I think is the name).
Wii Sports in the box
Component cables.

I'll probably grab some games for myself eventually like Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Galaxy, and some downloadable games in the future.

Any other good party or puzzle type games that are highly recommended?

[N0W IM N0THING]

No Mario Party?? I can't think of any puzzle games other than Big Brain Academy and that Cooking Mama game, whatever category that falls into. Get that badboy setup an mingle some Miis!

[GoatMother]

Nope, just the ones I started out with today. I'll look into Mario Party to see if she thinks she'll like it.

Not sure if this puppy will be online soon either, probably in time it will.

[AZRaiderH8r]

Congrats! We just got ours too, and the whole family is having a blast with it. My wife is not a gamer, at all, but every night we've been playing on the Wii. Plus, she gets an extra kick out of the fact that she absolutely destroys me in Wii Bowling every time. I think she's about 15-0 against me at this point, and her Mii has reached the Pro level.

I'm sure you will enjoy it; have fun!

[namehater]

goat, take a peek at that thread azraider started, lots of good recommendations in there

[Serren]

At least rent Rayman!

[namehater]

really, the only games that i have played on the wii that i didnt like was super monkey ball, but i guess if you like those old marble type games you might be into it

my personal wii collection includes-

wario ware
rayman
mario party
cooking mama
wii play
wii sports

all of those are fun party-ish games, my wii doesnt get play on a regular basis as i play most of my games on the 360, but the wii definitely gets some good times spent on it when friends come over and on family nights, we did have the grim adventures of billy and mandy, its pretty entertaining but none of us are really into fighter style games

[GoatMother]

cool, thanks guys. I'll check out the other thread as well.

[kingsfan2099]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets his ass kicked by his non-gaming wife in wii bowling....

[AZRaiderH8r]

Me too! Maybe we need to start a support group or something. "Hello, my name is AZRaiderH8r, and my wife kicks my trash in Wii Bowling."

I feel better already.

[namehater]

meh, i may lose to her at bowling now... lets see what happens when mario cart comes out... BEAAAHH

[Prophet0ne]

Hey, a Katamari game is coming out for the Wii soon...try it and love it forever.

[lovekeiiy]

Congrats. Welcome to the Wii group. Both my buddy and I lost to his girlfriend in Wii bowling. Although she only beat by about ten pins. He lost by a good 30 pins. The kicker, she didn't even know how to bowl, and I had explained how to bowl. Must have taught her too well, LOL.

[AZRaiderH8r]

You'll find that you will quickly improve in bowling. I own it now! I bowled a 243 today, my personal best. Woot!

[kingsfan2099]

Yeah but she's getting better also...i mean i average about 210-220 every game but now she's up in the 240-260 range...oh well i still smoke her at gears...lol...just a joke about the gears thing...

[BrewCityUpstart]

I might get a wii for me and the missus. She can't play real video games, so I figure she might be able to handle this.

[Jon Liu]

I've known plenty of people who aren't "Video game players" who have absolutely loved the Wii system. Heather might be one who converts to playing games because of the Wii!

[BrewCityUpstart]

Dude, she would button-mash Uno had I given her a try lol