An entire retirement home full of elderly people passing their free time in heated Wii competitions. It may sound like a Nintendo press release, but it's actually a Chicago Tribune article about the Sedgebrook retirement home in Lincolnshire, where Wii Sports Bowling is taking the living community by storm. The game is so popular among the residents that grandparents are teaching their grandkids how to play and a 20 person tournament took place over the weekend. Sure beats watching Matlock reruns all day.
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If people are active more (even if just a little bit), it can be a nice benefit to a little casual gaming.
Will Wii become synonymous with warm, mushy human interest stories? We shall see. :P
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but since are they are old they probably couldent handel the controller and complain about headaches like my parents
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More like "MMM! Sweaty old people!"
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it's blatantly obvious that this is a Nintendo ad of the VNR variety
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_news_release
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So, keep throwing those balls, grampa. Just know that I can SO take you in a game of Wii tennis. (don't make the controller smell like BenGay, k?)
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Laugh now, but when Sedgebrook takes down Shady Hills in a rain of .44 shells, you'll know who warned you.
(PS - this would be what they call "satire", since I know some people out there don't know the word. Look it up.)
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That's cool
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Wow... I never thought I would live enough to read that frase about video-games... Its the end of times I tell ya!!!
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Cool story. my nana loves wiisports, hadnt played a game of bowling in her life before wii and she managed to get a strike and a pretty decent score first time round :)
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The system has family appeal. Not the same can be said for the other big consoles.
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Next your gonna tell me that their eating oatmeal! What a world we live in!
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dude, old people dont sweat
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wii bowling is the shit. im honestly glad old folks can enjoy interactive entertainment like we can.
every retiremnet home should be a wiitirement home
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These people have a sweet set-up. I wish we could do something like this in my dorm...it blows my mind that the campus these seniors live on is way hipper than my college. We certainly don't have a Wii set-up for everyone with a lane set-up and a projection screen
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