A two-day late post

So I'm reading my favorite news publication, The Herald-Dispatch, and I find out that there's a video game related story that I MISSED! It was published two days ago.

According to the Dispatch web site, a group of people caused "a disturbance" outside of Best Buy and Circuit City near the Huntington Mall. No injuries were reported, but still - come on people!

Here's the thing everybody: the Wii is great. It's totally great. But like most things, it isn't worth causing a disturbance, or worse, robbery. I can understand causing a ruckus if you haven't eaten in days and then you raid the grocery store with a small, food-deprived army, but even that's only OK if the grocery store has been closed for weeks and an army of grocers are leading people away with pitchforks and torches and stuff. And then your food-deprived angry mob steps in with revolution in mind and tries to overthrow the grocers for some sweet, sweet canned goods. But wait, you remember that you're overstocked anyway because of Y2K, so you boycott the grocery store and don't throw a raid, although other people weren't so cautious, so now YOU'RE being overthrown. But that's all last-resort type stuff. Video games shouldn't do that to anybody (note to self: pitch video game called "Grocery Store 3000").

But it's just a gaming system. If little Johnny or Julie doesn't get a Wii for Christmas, they may be upset, but if you let them know that they will get it, then things will smooth themselves over. Get your kids some available Wii games and an IOU on the system. Don't start a war over the Wii.

In other news, have you ANSWERED THE CALL OF THE ASTLEY CHALLENGE???