I’ve avoided video games for years now. I spend plenty of time (understatement) in front of computers, so amusing myself with more screen time hasn’t felt like the answer. Since a short dalliance with Marathon (early FPS on the Mac in the mid/late 1990s), I’ve been almost cold turkey. But the drumbeat of praise for the difference of the Wii is getting to me. Today, I read Steven Berlin Johnson’s “Five thoughts on the Wii.” Sign me up.
Over three years ago, I was enthused by early attempts at bringing gestural computing to games, via the ToySight. The Wii, from all accounts, is a remarkable example of the form.