As the evil LibDem/Tories series of ruthless cuts continue to bite into Brits’ threadbare wallets, more folks are abandoning expensive gym memberships and choosing to fire up the Wii instead.
It seems hard to believe, but it’s now a whole quarter of a century since Super Mario Bros was first released in Japan.
We’ve not entirely sure why people commission these studies, but a survey of 3,000 Brits revealed that Mario is the country’s all time favourite video game character.
A survey of 3,000 Britons, commissioned by shopping website VoucherCodes.co.uk, found that 22% of those asked (and who could presumably be bothered to reply) declared their love for Mario, with Sega mascot Sonic mere inches behind with 21% of the vote.
Nintendo Wii users will soon be able to immerse themselves in even more Super Mario action, with the latest in the Wii Galaxy Series bagging a UK release date.
Long term Nintendo fans will know the sometimes weird and wonderful shapes that the controllers have taken over the years, starting from a clunky’n'chunky rectangular number in 1985.
Skip forward to 1996, and the thing had become a spaceship-shaped oddity, before settling down to the fantastically simple Wii controller we all know and love.
It’s been a firm favourite in the Wirefresh offices for years, and we’ve spent untold hours waving our Wii controllers around in the air, so it comes as no surprise to find that Nintendo’s Wii gaming console is now the fastest selling console in UK history.
Independent performance and sales tracking bods, Chart Track-GfK, have rummaged through the figures and discovered that the Wii has now sold more than six million units in the UK since launching on 8 December 2006.
The BBC has teamed up with gaming giants Nintendo to launch a new and improved version of the iPlayer catch-up service for the Nintendo Wii gaming console.
Following the launch of the iPlayer for the Playstation network in September, the new version improves on the frankly rubbish original which we found so clunky that we quickly abandoned it.
The new iPlayer channel will be available to download from November 18, and the BBC are hoping that it will prove a hit among the one million Wii users in the UK.
Wii Fit Plus, the follow up to the massively popular Nintendo Wii Fit exercise game, should be stacking up on shop shelves today in plenty of time for the Christmas rush.
In addition to all the original Wii Fit features, the updated (ahem) “exertainment” game offers no less than fifteen new balance-board exercises, plus six new strength and yoga programmes to coax lardy sofa surfers into some sort of shape.
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