Weighing In On Nintendo Wii's Controller
Judy Ramsook
December 13, 2006
When I first started playing video games on the old eight bit Nintendo Entertainment System, I usually did so in the company of friends. Some of those friends were non video game players who anxiously watched to see if that day would be the day I or one of my fellow video gamers would win the day and defeat Bowser and rescue the princess, in say, the Super Mario Bros. game, while the other video gamers looked on to see if your score superceded theirs. Sometimes things became quite competitive.
Then when one of us was at a pivotal point in whatever game was being played and probably became over confident, that was when unfavorable things would take place. Like maybe, the video game character you were in charge of would lose a life.
If that life happened to be the last one and meant you had to start the game all over to get to that point in the game again, (some video games back then did not have a built in save feature) some players became frustrated.
Sometimes, when this occurred, someone would throw his/her Ninendo controller in disgust, while others would simply turn off the system. I have played many video games on a variety of video game consoles since, and I must say that even though I have also been tempted to throw that controller across the room, many a time, I did not.
Plus, in order to do that, one would first have to disconnect the controller from the video game system, especially if you did not have the wireless kind of controller. And by the time you did all that, you might not be frustrated enough to still want to hurl the controller wherever.
It’s a good thing Nintendo makes their products durable enough, if not, there would have been many broken controllers back then. Something which could make a video gamer even more frustrated the next time he/she wanted to play a game and could not as a result of having a broken controller. Enter the twenty first century and the new Nintendo Wii system.
While the Nintendo Wii system in itself is great, all the fuss and warnings lately have been about its slim, controller. Although it looks pretty much like a television remote control, it acts the way it was made to act, like a video game console controller.
Sometimes, when some players become frustrated with a game or too enthusiastic about something he/she has done in the video game, that controller can suddenly find itself being tossed across the room, damaging other appliances and things in its path. That is probably why the thoughtful folks at Nintendo included a strap that is attached to that particular controller.
This strap is what the video game player wears around his/her wrist so if the controller is tossed, it does not leave the player’s hand, and nothing is damaged.
People have been warned to wear the strap so much lately that they are probably tired of hearing the warning, but please remember to wear it. It’s for your own good and the persons and things around you.
For safety precautions on other Nintendo consoles, check out Nintendo’s website at www.Nintendo.com. They want you to enjoy the games you are playing, not to damage anything or any one with a misguided toss of the controller in a moment of frustration or over enthusiasm.
Then when one of us was at a pivotal point in whatever game was being played and probably became over confident, that was when unfavorable things would take place. Like maybe, the video game character you were in charge of would lose a life.
If that life happened to be the last one and meant you had to start the game all over to get to that point in the game again, (some video games back then did not have a built in save feature) some players became frustrated.
Sometimes, when this occurred, someone would throw his/her Ninendo controller in disgust, while others would simply turn off the system. I have played many video games on a variety of video game consoles since, and I must say that even though I have also been tempted to throw that controller across the room, many a time, I did not.
Plus, in order to do that, one would first have to disconnect the controller from the video game system, especially if you did not have the wireless kind of controller. And by the time you did all that, you might not be frustrated enough to still want to hurl the controller wherever.
It’s a good thing Nintendo makes their products durable enough, if not, there would have been many broken controllers back then. Something which could make a video gamer even more frustrated the next time he/she wanted to play a game and could not as a result of having a broken controller. Enter the twenty first century and the new Nintendo Wii system.
While the Nintendo Wii system in itself is great, all the fuss and warnings lately have been about its slim, controller. Although it looks pretty much like a television remote control, it acts the way it was made to act, like a video game console controller.
Sometimes, when some players become frustrated with a game or too enthusiastic about something he/she has done in the video game, that controller can suddenly find itself being tossed across the room, damaging other appliances and things in its path. That is probably why the thoughtful folks at Nintendo included a strap that is attached to that particular controller.
This strap is what the video game player wears around his/her wrist so if the controller is tossed, it does not leave the player’s hand, and nothing is damaged.
People have been warned to wear the strap so much lately that they are probably tired of hearing the warning, but please remember to wear it. It’s for your own good and the persons and things around you.
For safety precautions on other Nintendo consoles, check out Nintendo’s website at www.Nintendo.com. They want you to enjoy the games you are playing, not to damage anything or any one with a misguided toss of the controller in a moment of frustration or over enthusiasm.
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