{"id":758,"date":"2012-11-18T17:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T22:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2012-11-18T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T22:41:50","slug":"wii-u-a-fanboy-perretro-spective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/wii-u-a-fanboy-perretro-spective\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii U: A Fanboy Per\/Retro-spective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote an article published on <a title=\"Toy-Tma.com\" href=\"http:\/\/toy-tma.com\" target=\"_blank\">toy-tma.com<\/a> about my thoughts about the new Wii U, from a fanboy&#8217;s perspective. I am really happy with it. Maybe it will convince you to go out and buy a Wii U right now!<\/p>\n<p>My favorite excerpts are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But I ended up trading that Nintendo 64 and all of my games for a Sony Playstation at the very same game store in which I had originally fallen in love with it. \u00a0The Sony Playstation offered more mature games like Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy. (Later in life, of course, I regretted parting with my Nintendo 64, and I\u2019ve since worked to rebuild my collection.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But that brings us today &#8211; the Wii U about to launch. Wii U is a horrible name, by the way. I wasn\u2019t as disappointed by the Wii name as some were back in 2006. I would have preferred Nintendo Revolution. (Of course, that name would just be painful to swallow now.) But this new name is just downright confusing. Is it a Wii? Yes&#8230; but no. It still works with all our wiggle waggle wiimotes, but they are launching traditional controls that look awfully similar to another famous controller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full article here:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toy-tma.com\/toys\/wii-u-nintendo-fanboy-retrospective\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.toy-tma.com\/toys\/wii-u-nintendo-fanboy-retrospective\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote an article published on toy-tma.com about my thoughts about the new Wii U, from a fanboy&#8217;s perspective. I am really happy with it. Maybe it will convince you to go out and buy a Wii U right now! 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