Happy birthday Wii!!

[donathos]

I didn't camp and I didn't pre-order -- I was dumb. They had the U.S. West Coast launch locally (I lived in L.A. at the time) and on the morning after midnight launch, I went to the GameStop up at CityWalk to see if they had an extra copy.

Well, of course, they didn't... So, I wound up driving from site to site in the San Fernando Valley, looking to see if anyone had a Wii. Everyone was out, and it was then I began to understand, and despair. In the days that followed, I took to calling stores, to try to figure out when the 2nd shipment would come in. The GameStop I originally went to were supposed to release pre-ordered Wiis that hadn't yet been picked up, but due to bad information from one of the employees, I wound up a day late for those. :I

Finally, I got someone to agree to call me when they got some in, and I jetted down as soon as was possible when that call came. I remember the employee warning me about walking too far with the package visible, and I remember having my friends over for Wii Sports that night.

For a time, I wondered if I was kind of silly in putting in that effort for a game system that certainly would soon be widely available. It wasn't until finding VGChartz that I found out that if I had just waited to find one sitting on a store shelf, it would have been a while... actually, until now! :)

Happy Birthday, Wii!