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Wii got you down? Or in a hospital?
When I first saw somebody playing
the Wii,
I thought to myself: "If I wanted to exert this much energy, I'd just actually go bowling." I guess some Wii players are thinking the same thing right now. Apparently, Nintendo's new gaming system is racking up the casualties just weeks after being released on the market.
Enough so, for Nintendo to create an almost-hilarious Wii safety page. There are competing Wii-injury sites with Wii Damage and the cleverly titled Wii Have a Problem.
Even CNBC did a report on the dangers of this new interactive gaming. But the commentators did make the point that this, at least, gets otherwise lazy gamers off the couch and into some exercise. Here's a video, via YouTube:
Here's another video, showing the aftermath of one player who ran his hand through a lightbulb:
Posted by Will on December 12, 2006 at 2:26 PM
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