The Brothers Chaps, creators of Homestar Runner, have apparently been working on a few new things besides the latest Strongbad Email (which is coming soon the site says). They have launched 4 of the Videlectrix titles (Atari styled games based on their cartoons), for the…Wii.

The page is Videlectrix.com/vii, and you can navigate to it on your Wii through the Opera browser. The games are optimized with special controlls that work with the Wii Remote.

This is the first time that I’m aware of a site optimizing it’s online games to work with the Wii. This is becoming my favorite gaming platform of all time.

Also, Wii News launched this past weekend. Make sure to check out that channel on your Wii if you haven’t already.

I think my first game purchase will be Wario Ware, as that I really like seeing ways that the remote can be used. It’s really the main appeal to the system, the interactivity between yourself and the gameplay.

• Wii Play with Wii Remote (Feb. 14, Nintendo)
• Disney’s Meet the Robinsons (March 27, Buena Vista)
• Bust-A-Move Bash (March, Majesco)
• Prince of Persia Rival Swords (March, Ubisoft)
• TMNT (aka Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, March , Ubisoft)
• Bionicle Heroes (March, Eidos)
• Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII (March, Ubisoft)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Q1, EA)
• SSX Blur (Q1, EA)
• The Godfather Blackhand Edition (Q1, EA)
• Medal of Honor Vanguard (Q1, EA)
• Sonic and the Secret Rings (Q1, Sega)
• Mario Party 8 (Q2, Nintendo)

I’m sitting outside of Circuit City 3rd in line for the Wii. There is an employee out here with his friend, who has said there is only 6 on hand in store. My friend should be here soon to take his place in line. More updates to come throughout the night.

• The store opens up at 10AM, only 8 more hours to go.

• It seems as if the $40 off coupon on Circuit City has been removed from their site and no longer works. There is a guy here who has a different type of $40 off coupon. Hopefully that one will work. It is 60 degrees here and everyone is in heavy coats and bundled with blankets.
• No updates for a while, mainly because everyone has been sleeping. The 6th and final person (as far as we know got here around 5:30). We have told people to go to Best Buy (their ad says minimum 20 per store) 2 blocks away.
• My old roomie just went for a McBreakfast run, so we will be having some food in a few minutes.
• Vouchers will be handed out in 1 hour, and the store opens in 2.
• GOT MY WII!!!!! (Someone in line had a $40 off coupon that was different then the Digg one, and it worked!) I purchased the Wii Classic Controller as well for some classic Nintendo games.
• Wow what a day. I took the Wii over to my parents place and set it up. Played a round of each of the Wii Sport games, then fell asleep for the rest of the day (I’ve had about 6 hours sleep all weekend long).
• My Wii code is:
  7631 1947 2526 5374 add me, and post your Wii friend code in the comments.

This Sunday, both Best Buy and Circuit City are scheduled to release a bunch of Nintendo Wii’s out on the world. With the coupon below, you can get $40 off any purchase over $199, bringing the $249 wii price to $209.

I may not have a place to live, but a deal like this is almost too much to pass up. Looks like I will be camping outside of Circuit City this Sunday morning.

According to research firm NPD Microsoft sold two million Xbox 360 consoles in the USA between the beginning of November and Christmas Day. Over the same period Nintendo sold 1.8 million Wii consoles, and Sony sold 750,000 Playstation 3 units.

I do admit that almost every time I was in any electronics store, I saw someone with a Xbox 360 in their hands at checkout.

I am still waiting to find a Wii to purchase, in the meantime I’m getting excited about the G6Lite I am getting within the next few weeks for my DS Lite.

Do I believe this rumor? Well the first meeting took place on Apple’s 30th anniversary April 1, 2006 (April Fool’s day), and with SOOO much info being known, this rumor is one that I’m going to say is certainly not true, although I wish it were.

Read all the details of this rumor

Other then that I got a bunch of bowling items, including a new ball and shoes. I received tickets to Spamalot when it opens here in Tampa with my brothers as well. I did order an Invisible Shield for my Zune to protect the screen from scratches, and am going to re-new the Zune Marketplace account.

I know a few people got Blackberry Pearls for Christmas, make sure to read my post about using it as a bluetooth modem.

Also, don’t forget to check out iTunes has a 3 for 2 special on select music videos right now, a perfect way to help fill up that new iPod you might of gotten. Some of the sets are even cheaper then regular, I just got 6 music videos for $5.98.

EA has released 2 new iPod games, Soduku and Royal Solitaire.

Sudoku has two different modes. A Normal with a partially filled grid, and a newspaper mode with a completly empty grid. There are a number of different ways to enter numbers in the grids, making it easy for any type of Sudoku player.

Royal Solitare features 10 different styles of solitaire (Aces Up, Beleaguered Castle, Canfield, FreeCell, Golf, Klondike, Peaks, Pyramid, Scorpion, and Yukon). This is visually superior to the solitaire that comes included on the iPod, and tracks your stats comparing them to everyone else in the world playing as well.

Each game runs $4.99 and can be purchased today in the iTunes Store.

You can sign up to have a new strap sent out to you, and it looks like you won’t have to go through the hassle of returning your old one.

Simply fill out this form

I’m traveling this weekend, but might see what I can do about getting to a Target in Columbus, Ohio Sunday early in the AM.

*This post is speculation and rumor, there is no guarantee that Target will have the Wii. This is simply information I’ve acquired and am passing it along.

I think that I might wait an extra week or 3 till these new Wii Remotes hit the US before making my purchase of my Wii.

Speaking of buying a Wii, today’s Dawn and Drew TV episode showed their plight to Wal-Mart at the crack of dawn in an attempt to purchase a Wii. Were they able to get there in time when some people had been camping out since the previous day? Watch the episode here.

The Wii has sold over 600,000 units in the first 8 days it was out in the United States. That’s 75,000 a day or 3125 an hour or 52 a minute!!!!! (On an average scale of course). Sony has only sold around 125,000 and 175,000 even though it launched 2 days before the Wii.

Microsoft was only able to sell 400,000 within it’s first 8 days of being on the market. At it’s current selling rate (if the rate proved to be sustainable) , the Wii is set to overtake the 6+ Million Xbox 360’s sold within the next few months.

The The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has become the most successful Wii game so far, selling about 454,000 units. Nintendo also has more units per launch then the other two consoles, thus leading to it’s larger selling figures.

Either way, I know I’m going to be purchasing the Wii, and with Apple’s iTV coming out soon, the Media Center Extender feature of the Xbox 360 is looking less tempting.

I’m not sure what to think of this game, it seems a bit…strange. Looks to be for the Wii, but could come out on the GameCube. Plenty of videos on YouTube.

All pieces removed 2, originally uploaded by JPinnix.

It started yesterday when I read that there were retails stores selling them 11 days early. I ran over to my nearest Target and Walmart with no luck.

I had school and work the rest of the day so I gave up my efforts.

Today everyone is reporting that Wal-Mart and Target have fixed the item in the system so it won’t scan. Well I try to  go to Target anyway. An employee in the electronics section opens a drawer full of them, but says he can’t sell them to the 11th. I even try to bribe him and he doesn’t go for it.

My receipt from Sears tucked underneath the box…, originally uploaded by marusin.

I saw on Josh’s Unboxing site that someone had gotten one from Sears, so I head to a Sears Essentials store. I called up first and they had 3. When trying to ring it up, there was some RTV error. I tried to get her to ring up an old box and sell me the lite…she wasn’t having that.

Then I went and checked the online page for Sears. They showed you could order it online and they had them in stock….hrm. Now my wallet was recently stolen so I don’t have any debit cards yet…so how do I order online?

Sears allows gift cards to be used to place an order. Back to Sears I go and buy a $140 gift card. I head out to my car and get on the Sprint Samsung A-920 as a bluetooth modem for my MacBook. I place my order from the parking lot.

I drove around back for the order pickup, and the guy has a DS in hand. He then asks if my name is Daren. Apparently someone else was wise to this trick. I tell him no, it’s Nick and he finds my order and hands me the DS.

Now his Palm Pilot won’t accept my signature, and he even tries…not working. CRAP. He tells me to stay right there and goes into the warehouse. Was he going to get some message that said it couldn’t be sold? Should I make a dash for my car with my item?

Fortunately he got it to work and I walked out with my new Nintendo DS Lite. It is a perfect compliment to my white MacBook. The screen is brighter it is such a beautiful piece of hardware. I can’t wait to play Mario Kart online tonight!

So I got my DS Lite, 10 days before it launches….I couldn’t be happier.

UPDATE: Check out my Flickr set of my new DS. There are a lot of good pics comparing the old DS “phat” to the DS Lite

I recently this weekend purchased this game. I have to say, it is a very cool upgrade to the Mario series.

I can’t wait for the DS Lite to come out in June.