Honestly, the menu screen would have been enough. Sure, I was regressing, but if there was ever a time to step back a few years (or a decade) from today, it’s right now. And when I clicked the console on, the TV began jingling those weird synth menu screen bells, just as I remembered. It felt like opening up a time capsule-video games can really have that special quality sometimes. It was all right there, exactly as I’d left it. When my Wii arrived last week (god bless the USPS), I felt my body leave the apartment and hover peacefully over the city as I began sanitizing the cardboard, the controller and Nunchuk, and the used copy of Wii Sports Resort. Since the outside world is off-limits, I need a bit more movement in my life than just my thumbs. But as transporting as titles like Breath of the Wild and Red Dead Redemption II can be, they’re not enough. #Wii sports golf try again full#Video games have become one of the few activities stopping me and my partner from going full Stephen King on each other while locked in this 50-square-foot apartment. Huh! And from staying inside all day, I’ve also realized-and I never thought I’d say this-I miss motion controls. Last night, I found out that homemade cookies can become as thin as peanut brittle if you don’t understand how baking soda works. Currently locked inside my tiny studio apartment with my girlfriend and her cat for the indefinite future, I’ve discovered that kitties made good face pillows. I’m learning a lot about myself right now. And so we've figured out a few ways to fill it that we can't recommend enough. Our free time, when we're not checking emails and updates and push alerts, stretches on and on.
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