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[Chukchi Husky]

I just got an e-mail from PC World. They began processing my order.

[Showsni]

So hopefully it will come soon.

[Chukchi Husky]

They said five to seven days after being dispatched.

[Wolf O'Donnell]

Cube Twilight Princess arrived this morning!! I can't believe it came a full two days before release, I only preordered it last week!

And there's Zelda cards in a sealed Triforce-emblazoned envelope!

Lucky. I ordered it from Play.com and they still don't have stock yet.

Went to the Science Museum in London on Wednesday. They had the, "Game On" exhibit (sponsored by Nintendo). I sucked at all the games, including Zelda: Ocarina of Time (despite the fact that I've played it so many times). Maybe I just can't play games whilst there are other people around.

They had a Wii demo available and they gave me a ticket to play it in the 5 o'clock slot. Unfortunately, I took so long seeing the other exhibits and the "Game On" exhibit, that I didn't have time to have a go. That's £8.50 wasted.

And no one had any problems with the Wiimote slipping out of their hands, as far as I could tell.

[Veteran]

I guess the extra £3 GAME charged was worth it then, if I'm the only person here with the GC version.

Went to the Science Museum in London on Wednesday. They had the, "Game On" exhibit (sponsored by Nintendo). I sucked at all the games, including Zelda: Ocarina of Time (despite the fact that I've played it so many times). Maybe I just can't play games whilst there are other people around.

If I were to pick up a N64 controller now I'd be pretty useless with it, such is the difference between that and modern analogue sticks.

[Chukchi Husky]

They finally sent it off. It's being delivered by DHL. I went onto Amazon and found they had some RGB scart cables for the Wii, so I ordered one of them (along with a selector).

[Showsni]

And no one had any problems with the Wiimote slipping out of their hands, as far as I could tell.

My brother managed to throw mine playing tennis... Good thing he had the strap on tightly.

GAME in town today were doing buy Twilight Princess, get a (used) Gamecube for £20.

[Toan]

From 2AM Sunday.... After 6 hours in the bleeding cold weather outside of Target, unable to feel either hands or feet... I finally got a Wii.

30 people had lined up by the time they handed out voucher "tickets" (Target business cards with Wii information and a number... I said that they should have handed out Wonka bars with Golden Tickets inside, and at the opening time of 8AM Gene Wilder opens the doors and does a cartwheel, leading everyone inside for a plethora of chocolate, candy and moral values before we get Wiis, but I digress) for us. There were only 18 Wiis, and myself and my two friends were respectively numbers 10, 11 and 12. Numbers 1, 2, and 3 had been there since 9PM Saturday.

In a night/early morning full of freezing fun (including watching Dane Cook's HBO special on my laptop), I'm glad I walked away with a Wii, an extra 'mote and chuk, and TP.

...but now it's under the tree until Christmas, considering my mother's money bought it. XD

[Steel Samurai]

Heh. I preordered a few weeks ago from EB, came in on launch night with a friend, got a ticket, waited for a couple hours till midnight, and was 12th in the queue. That's the beauty of small aussie shopping centers.

[Mad Scrub]

I couldn't make the midnight launch because public transport doesn't run that late at night. I picked mine up at 9:00am.

Edited by Mad Scrub, 18 December 2006 - 01:33 AM.

[Chukchi Husky]

It came today, but I put it away for now.

[Wolf O'Donnell]

I guess the extra £3 GAME charged was worth it then, if I'm the only person here with the GC version.
If I were to pick up a N64 controller now I'd be pretty useless with it, such is the difference between that and modern analogue sticks.

Nah, I was only playing Majora's Mask the night before.

The Science Museum, though, could only give tickets out to play either the Wii demo or the PS3 demo, not both. And by the time I got to the demo units, some guy had crashed their vehicle (I think the PS3 was running a racing car game). They had also, at the same time, crashed the PS3, which I found rather funny.

For those of you Brits who still don't have a Wii, Play.com still have some in stock apparently.

Edited by Wolf_ODonnell, 19 December 2006 - 09:02 AM.

[Veteran]

For those of you Brits who still don't have a Wii, Play.com still have some in stock apparently.

Not anymore they don't.