melbourne chapter

Thursday night saw the arrival of the Nintendo Wii at Melbourne department stores. It was reported that up to 300 people queued at Chadstone and Southland for a chance to purchase the console. There were no guarantees since many stores had already taken on pre-orders. “Everyone is after the Call of Duty package with the second controller” said Russell Willson, console enthusiast and colleague. Russell came to work on Friday with his Wii and even though I personally have not been caught up in the hype I have to say it’s an impressive piece of gadjetry - Russell tells me he’s actually physically stuffed after playing and hour of Call of Duty. “The controls actually interact with the game through movement. For Call of Duty you use 2 controls, the standard (looks like a TV remote) and the “nun chuk” (looks like an electric shaver). The normal control is used to control weapons and the nun chuk is used to control the character - when he picks things up, rows boats or moves tanks!”

I won’t be surprised if we see Palates come out on the Wii in the next few months! .