I had a $25 gift card for GameStop that I got back at Christmas and never used because it's very hard for me to set foot in GameStop without vomiting. I finally walked over there with my wife today to pick up a card of 2000 Wii Points, so I could minimize how much of the money went to GameStop, and give it to Nintendo instead. They were playing a MadWorld commercial (with no sound) that was pretty awesome. My wife fell in love with the art style. I told her those are the only 3 colors in the game and she was even more interested. Then I told her it had a hip hop soundtrack and she was even more interested. We walked back home and I showed her the full commercials online, with the sound on, and told her it was a Wii-only game. She thought it was awesome that what could potentially be the goriest game ever is Wii-only. She asked when it came out. I looked it up. Holy shit, it comes out in 3 days?!? She made me walk back there, return the card, and put the $25 down on a pre-order.
She told me that she wants to play this game, and she wants to play it with me, and she probably wouldn't want to play the VC games I'd get. I couldln't argue with that. If MadWorld can nerdify my wife a bit more, it must be mine.
(In my defense, I forgot Platinum Games were the ex-Clover guys. I was gonna get the game eventually, but after having my memory refreshed on the Clover/Platinum connection, I actually do need this game on day one.)
And the only things I'd ever pre-ordered before were the Wii and Wii Fit. 
