Nintendo seems to be on a lucky streak of sticking it to me lately, with the first strike against me being my Wii needing repairs and more recently scoring another point thanks to my copy of SSBB not working on my friends’ Wii. I had SSBB preordered at GameStop and figured I might as well pick it up the day it launched as I was in town anyways. The kicker being I had just sent my Wii off for repairs and had nothing to play the game on. Yesterday, we went to visit some friends, excited about the possibility of finally getting to check out the game.

Truth be told, I haven’t spoiled too much for myself as I didn’t really pay much attention to the pre-release hype. I posted a few news bits about videos and SSBB blog updates, but I didn’t really get too far into said videos nor did I continue to follow the blog for very long. And not out of disinterest, I could just tell the game was going to be awesome and wanted to not spoil as much as possible.

So here we are, at my friends house all excited about finally getting to check out the game and getting to go through everything that’s under the hood. We’d play some co-op Subspace Emissary, maybe unlock a few new characters, build a custom level, check out online, all kindsa crazy stuff we had envisioned. We joked around about how “Oh watch it not work, didn’t you hear about certain Wii’s not being able to play them?” which in hindsight, we probably should not have joked about because the truth of the matter is not only did the game not play, the Wii wouldn’t even see the disk.

>:(

We tried the Wii standing right side up, on it’s belly sideways, at a 45 degree angle, turning it on with another game in and then switching them, unplugging the power, we even took it old school NES style and blew into the slot at one point. Ok not really, but it was an option. We knew in the back of our heads the Wii wasn’t going to play the game, but we were desperate and tried everything we could think of. The game simply wouldn’t be recognized by the Wii so we played a few rounds of Guitar Hero 3 instead and still had fun.

On the way home I figured if anything good can come out of this, it’s going to be the amount of excitement that has built up inside me over the game and how cool it will be to finally play it. Nintendo is just teasing me.. I got home and noticed a note on the door from UPS stating I had a package in the office of the apartments here. I wonder what that could be?