We successfully tested Wii Music against a cheerleader and real musicians, but it was the last test that took the cake. As it turns out, Nintendo wasn’t ecstatic on the dog playing the Wii idea, but neither was the dog. We were however able to convince them to let us bring the dog in the trailer to see if he would react to the barking in Wii Music.
After the cheerleader, it was time to take real musicians and line them up against Wii Music. Three of my very good friends, Matt Schultz, Patrick Behan, and Shawna Riley were kind enough to drive down to Denver from Boulder to handle this one. The results were as we expected.
So what happened after that cliffhanger ending? We finally found the van trailer. It turns out they were just repositioning it. Of course, as soon as we saw them pulling out of the driveway we thought they were taking off to another city. So after all of that we managed to find a parking space, grabbed our gear, and headed over to the Airstream to surprise Nintendo. For our first test Katie Farland, the cheerleader, put Wii Music to the test. If you missed the first Nintendo Holiday Van post we decided to bring a dog, a band, and a cheerleader to Denver with us to see if Nintendo’s Wii Music would hold up to its real life counterparts.
Wii Music is an interesting breed. Not only does it allow a player to collaborate musically with their friends, but oddly enough it includes a cheerleader and a dog in its instrument database. So what happens when you bring musically inclined individuals, a cheerleader, and a dog to try out their respective avatars in the game? That’s what we wanted to find out.
