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Retirement Community Throws Nintendo Wii Tournament

by Evan Shamoon on October 8, 2007 at 09:27 AM



It's becoming increasingly clear elderly people are the new 11 year-olds, and that Nintendo's Wii is the new bingo.

Four Erickson retirement communities put their heads together to organize Wii bowling tournaments in Wii Sports, and eventually the Wii Bowling Championship. Not only are these old folks refusing to eat their dinner and staying up all night playing video games, they're actually getting together for tournaments and making movies about the whole experience...and then putting them up on YouTube for the rest of us to watch. What's next? An 80+ Geek Squad?

Starring such hurlers as Ginger "Ginger Snap" Kotz and Sally "High Roller" Pendergast and featuring more squinting than a George W. Bush State of the Union Address, the whole thing is put together like one of those NFL Films on HBO.

We were wondering where they got the funding for it, until we realized it's also an ad for Erickson retirement communities. Still, as far as feel-good technology stories go, it kinda rules.

From GeekSugar

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Tags: Nintendo Wii, NintendoWii, Senior Gamers, SeniorGamers

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