OK, I know I'm a tad late ("I'm so two-thousand-late"), but here I am! My own Wii has arrived!

I've been playing my father's (!) Wii with him for some time, and now I got myself one. Me and my wife just started spending some time in it, and our Mii plaza is getting crowded already (snapshots anytime soon). We're enjoying Wii Sports too, and my unexpected favourite sport is... Golf? Never considered playing that before, but it gets me relaxed and it feels good. I thought I would stick to Tennis (since I already played it before in the real world), but Mii's akward-auto-positioning bugs me a little. Baseball is fine, and so is Bowling (despite the fact my wrist always twist the ball to the left). Boxing is funny, but not precise - I can't stop hitting my coach's face while training.

For now I'll play some games borrowed from my father, and I think I will put more effort into WiiWare games because it would be cheaper for me here - no taxes, and no shipping. We'll see what comes next.

A few days ago I was watching a trailer of the new installment in the King of Fighters series and that reminded me of something weird (though funny) that started to happen when all these fighting games came to home consoles: the 'pausing contests'.

Take a whole generation of (teen) gamers being mesmerized by the graphics revolution started with the 16-bit consoles and mix it with some beauties starring fighting games and you'll get a pausing contest: just press 'start' during a match looking for the hottest pose!

I know it's shameful; but it really happened. I was 12 when Street Fighter II was released for SNES and I can even remember some guys falling in love for Chun-Li! How innocent... That's hard to explain to today's boys well acquainted to 3D models.

Along this post you can see sprites of some games that were frequently used for this 'purpose' and you can evaluate how silly it was. God bless us all...

That was an unpredictably nonsensical scene: Wolverine wearing my soccer team's shirt! While visiting Brazil Mr. Jackman went to Corinthians training center to meet Ronaldo, who gave him this unique 'X' shirt. They had a good time and 'Logan' said that 'Ronaldo is the real indestructible one'.
It really seems so since Ronaldo started playing again after three serious injuries and consequent surgeries in his knees. And he's doing well - he has scored 10 goals in 14 matches so far as a Corinthians forward.
Take a look:

Still waiting for the DS' 'Origins' review.