I walked into Gamestop at midnight, picked up my Wii, and haven't stopped playing it yet. Well, except for right now because I'm at work...

I woke up at 7 on the 19th with the plans to wait in line for a Wii at a Supersotre here in Calgary (it's Canada's version of Wal-Mart). On the way there, myself and my two roomates went and swung by a mall with a Best Buy and a Futureshop to get a feel for the line there. Futureshop was ligned up at least 60 deep (they were opening at 10) and Best buy was a giant mob as they just opened the doors.
A little surprised we headed over to the Superstore and saw a small gathering of about 15 people in front of the doors. We were informed when we got to the line that they were sold out and everyone who was waiting had pre-order tickets, so we got to head back to the truck (did I mention that it was below zero centigrade?) and contimplated our options. Last ditch effort we headed over to a mall that had a Toys 'R Us, a Zellers and a EB and saw quite a few campers waiting at the OUTSIDE enterances of the Zellers/TRU. Being sneaky/curious, we tried the main doors of the mall and found them to be open so we headed to EB and joined the line of 10 others (it opened at 11 and it was 9).
TRU opened and sold out in 20 minutes, Zellers opened and turned away almost everyone who was waiting outside (no preorders, no Wii).
It was about 10 when someone with a Wii in a TRU bag waited BESIDE our line with a large "For Sale" sign on it trying to entice a buyer near the end of the line.
At about 10 a manager came out of EB and counted down the line and lo and behold I we were #15 of the 30 availible. We had our Wii, but were informed that almost all the games were preordered (no Zelda for us). Rumor then spread through the lineup that Zellers had a ton of games and there was a mini mad-rush of people who ran to scoop up their last of the copies of Zelda.
Once we got the Wii in our possession we realised that the entire city of Calgary (pop. 1million) didn't have a single Nunchuck availible for sale, wtf?
All in all the crowds that were waiting were pretty hospitible and I'm hoping that no one froze to death in our cold winters.

i am an Electronics manager at Target and we had 60 Wii available to buy. My wife wanted to camp out overnight with her friend( i wasnt allowed to as the manager) so i took her with her stuff round to target. We got there about 730pm Sat nite and there was 30 people in line (my wife and her friend were 34 and 35) and i got no sleep as i kept driving round to 1. Check if my wife was ok and 2. Makes sure all the peeps in line were safe and needed anything. I brought them some pizza round( god bless little Caesars hot n ready!!) and i called the local police dept if they could patrol the parking lot every hour to see if the people waiting were ok and they completely obliged (they had a squad car there all night!!)

Come 615am when i went out to hand the tickets out there was about SEVENTY people in line, most of the guys tried to tell the peeps after 60 there was no point in waiting but they stayed anyways. So before i handed the tickets out i informed everyone if there was any pushing or shoving they would be escorted from the premises by the police (didnt want anybody who had been camping out to get cut). I then announced to the crowd that NO 1 had been waiting since 8am Saturday morning and i had everyone gave him a round of applause(was hilarious). It was a great crowd outside and everyone was well behaved once we opened at 8 and my wife got her Wii!!!!. But alas she played it for 30 mins and the ac adapter died :( but nintendo are sending us a new one via UPS red free of charge and my friend lets me borrow his when he is at work. It was a great day that ended with a little disappointment but was quickly avoided with nintendo's amazing response to my problem. I am truly exhausted and i hope i haven't typed too much but i just wanted to share my experience with you all.It was a great day and everyone who waited overnight( you know who you are) should be very proud of themselves. I kept asking everyone in line if they knew what destructoid was and they didnt(!) so i kept telling them to check it out.

SCPimp, I have no issue with your wife standing in line, or any store employee, given that they're in line with us. But I think it's retarded that Target wouldn't let you stand in line with your wife the night through. I know she's going to be a grown woman who can take care of herself, but that's really besides the point. Does that thin layer of diversion by making her stand in line alone really mean a lot to corporate? I mean, what the hell? I'd think, if I saw a manager in line, and he's IN LINE, that he'd be a pretty swell guy. There are some that I've seen of the a-holes who think otherwise, but screw them. I mean, at the end of the day, which customer warrants your business more? The happy one who doesn't care? Or the vicious nasty a-hole who does nothing but pee all over everyone's parade by being a whiny douche?

The store kinda screwed me. But I didn't camp out, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Blogged about it here:

http://notawesome.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/wii-midnight-launch-at-ballard-fred-meyer/

Lessons learned: 1) Ask more than one employee what the deal is, preferably a manager, before launch; 2) Most retailers are fuckers.

DBZ is fun if you love the series and wouldnt mind learning all the specific movements for playing on the Wiimote. I played a little bit of training mode as Vegeta. It was pretty easy to remember some of the remote movements for his Blasts. Sometimes the motion is unresponsive, because they demand you to do it exactly as said in Skills List. I havent really played through it much, but I think that to truly enjoy the game, you need to have a friend who either has the game or very knowledgeable with the game.

Hahaha NO ONE got a ps3? Surely someone can give me some feedback, I'd be interested to hear

THNX Maxpower, I will keep an eye out for this one, never played the DBZ games, but somehow this one appeals to me.