My Wife Likes Playing With My Wii

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Okay, so I know the “Wii” pun is the most overused on the Internets right now and I promise this will be the one and only time I use it. The truth is, my wife actually does like playing my Nintendo Wii. This is huge.

My wife and I have known each other for nearly eight years, and throughout our time together, she has been more than a little perplexed as to how a grown man can enjoy video games so much. It's not that she thought it was a bad thing, necessarily; she just didn't get it. I could never get her to play with me. Ever.

It kind of sucked considering how much I love my video games. I've often wished that she would share in the experience with me, but no such luck...until my Wii came along.

She had seen the ads on TV and said it looked “gimmicky.” While I didn't necessarily disagree with, I wanted a Wii in the worst way (having already made my informed decision between a Wii and a PS3. More on that later).

I happened to be at Wal-Mart (something I’m not proud of) at the exact time the electronics department got their shipment of three Wiis in. I, of course, tried to buy all three (hello eBay!) but they wouldn’t let me. I did score one for myself though.

I was so excited I literally almost hit another car on the way home, but as fate would have it, I arrived alive and immediately hooked up my Wii. My wife was there to witness the first game I played: Tennis from the Wii Sports disk. I played one best of three game. Needless to say, it was awesome.

Then I had the shock of my life.

“Let me play it once,” my wife said.

After I recovered from the initial astonishment that my wife was actually asking me to play a video game, I was faced with a serious dilemma. I had only played one game and she was asking me to give up the controller. Under normal circumstances my response would have been a heartfelt “Hell no!”

But this was my wife asking me if she could play a video game. This was something I had dreamed about for nearly a decade. I tenderly handed her the controller. She started to play. She started to smile. She busted out laughing. She was playing a video game and she was loving it.

I could have died a happy man right then and there. Fortunately, I continued on. We switched back and forth through the rest of the night, playing our way through the disk (she kicked my ass in bowling) and had a great time bonding over video games.

Finally, my dream was realized—but it kept getting better. My wife has generally regarded money spent on video games as totally wasted. That’s why I about fell over dead when she called me from the store a few days later to inform me that they had extra Wii remotes and ask if she should pick one up so we could play tennis against each other.

Uh, that would be a “yes." So she did. We even got "his and hers" colored skins for the remotes (blue and orange). Now we Wii together all the time. Life is awesome. Thank you Nintendo, for providing the Wii to a happy marriage.

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