There's different encoding systems for televisions. North America is basically NTSC. PAL is what most European countries use. Basically the tv's have different refresher rates and only specific versions, IE PAL tv with PAL console with PAL game will work. It's called region coding.
Anyways, what you'd do is get someone to import, IE send, you a NTSC one. You'd need something to be able to make your TV watch in NTSC, but most TV's can do both and then you'd have to buy the specific NTSC games, via importing.
A lot of people do it with titles that are only released in Japan, they get a Japanese Wii, or any console, not just Wii for that matter, imported and the game imported so they can play the games.
This also applies to movies on DVD. I bought a region free dvd player, paid a bit more than a normal one, just so I can watch DVD's that are made in Europe that never come to North America.
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