It was 6:00 AM on a cold Sunday morning and instead of sleeping in my bed I was waiting in a queue in front of the 23rd Street Best Buy in Manhattan. I was one of the “lucky” ones that got my Wii. I was hoping to get my shiny new video game system in the mail via a pre-order. But that didn’t pan out. Luckily, I noticed on the Best Buy website that they were doing a ticket system for the Wiis with no bundle tie in. So I set my alarm the night before launch day for the crack of dawn and tried to get some sleep.

I have become quite the coffee connoisseur ever since I purchased the Rancilio Siliva, a semi-commercial espresso machine, as a christmas gift for my mother. I was designed the home barista, as I was the only one to master milk frothing (although I am still lost as to how latte art is made), and I made it my goal to produce excellent espresso. However, as I began trying different espresso varieties, I had a hard time controlling the consistency of the brew. That was when I decided I needed a grinder to remove the variability that was present in using pre-ground espresso. There were a multitude of choices availably ranging from the cheep hand crank to the uber-expensive conical burr grinders costing more than the espresso machine itself. Finally, I settled on the Rocky.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is perhaps the most anticipated launch title of a console ever. Twilight Princess was four years in the making and was not even originally scheduled to be a Wii title! The Zelda series is one of Nintendo’s most loved creations (perhaps even more so than Mario) and its fanatical fan base has come to expect great things from its creator Eiji Aonuma, who has taken over the role once heald by Shigeru Miyamoto, who was the creator the Zelda series. With Miyamoto saying this is the best Zelda game to date, does this sixty hour adventure live up to all the hype surrounding it? Warning: Spoilers maybe contained in the rest of this review!

Planet Puzzle League is Nintendo’s latest addition to its Touch Generations line of video games for the Nintendo DS, which include Tetris, Electroplankton, and the very populate Brain Age and Nintendogs. Planet Puzzle League is a highly addictive version of an old Game Boy game, Tetris Attack. The use of the stylus and the inclusion of play modes such as Daily Play making this rendition particularly enjoyable.

They hype. The sun. The hours waiting in line for a phone that if you were to wait a couple of weeks would be able to drop into any store and just pick it up. Was it worth it? If you are an Apple fanboi or one of those obsessive compulsive types that NEEDS to have the latest technology — then yes. For the rest of you, read the rest of this review to decide for yourself.