I've never owned a console game player, since the original Atari. So that dates me. I have been a PC gamer, though, for more than 20 years, way back to the Commodore 64.

I've seen PC games slip away in importance as a series of great consoles were released. Many of my friends loved the PlayStation. Many liked the Xbox. But I just didn't want to go there. I think PC games still work for me, because me favorite genre is RPG and the PC is an ideal platform for RPG.

This year, I set out to get a Wii, partly because the motion-sensing controllers really intrigued me. I played tennis at a friend's house during a party and that got me hooked. This is really different!

So the Wii took about 30 minutes to set up. The instructions were A+, top quality. Everything worked. In minute 35, my wife, who never plays computer games was playing tennis and bowling with her 80-year-old father. There was no learning curve. Just do it.

That is extremely impressive. I know the Wii is probably a bit of a joke among serious gamers, but I am actually looking forward to playing my first download, Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Again, the game appears very simple but I am finding my first Zelda game to be pretty tough. That will keep me coming back.

And I need to beat those ducking bastards in boxing, too.