Wii !!!

Well, here we are weeks past the holiday rush and yet I have this pic to share...

It was taken at 8:45am outside of Future Shop yesterday (Tuesday), they open at 10am, and it was about -45 degrees outside. The event was not the launch of Windows Vista. All the people were there cause they knew that Future Shop would have 10 Wii's that day. YIKES. I think Nintendo needs to make more.....

Black Box!!

No, not the 80's band, as good as they were that is not the "Black Box" I'm referring to...

These are the first Nintendo made/published games for the NES when it came out. The boxes were very cool, they told what kind of game it was and gave you one sweet taste of the pixelated graphical glory that you would find inside. You couldn't claim that they overstated the look of the game like Call of Duty got sued for that's for sure.

So, this is one of them, Super Mario Bros. very popular game obviously, there are 29 others plus 3 "silver" boxes that I guess I will have to track down as well. Are they particularly good games? No. Do they look cool? Yep! and I remember pressing my noseup against the glass of Miracle Mart at Bayshore wishing I had the millions needed to buy them at the time.... now that millions is down to mere hundreds to complete the collection. Let's hope this summer will be a good one for garage sales.

Straight from 1983... Zaxxon, the board game....

A very bizarre Value Village find and $3.99 well spent in my mind. Someday I may actually play it, but something tells me it won't be as exciting as I hope.