![]() I paid for it by trading in years upon years upon years of old hardware and games. In a deal that I should’ve negotiated in hindsight, my parents drove me to the store to get the Wii U. Not even Nintendo would deny that, selling a mere thirteen million units total as of the last reported sales data in 2019 Two years later, dejected from the loss of my tennis season and grappling with a serious injury, my ethos made a strong enough case for the console. I loved my 3DS, but part of me always itched for Nintendo’s HD home system, too, which I obviously couldn’t afford since I was eleven at the time of its release. After being denied one during Christmas 2012 (as it turned out, I was receiving an iPod Touch that year, unbeknownst to me at the time), I finally reopened the conversation. ![]() It took mere hours before I was in a full-arm cast.īut this injury and its accompanying pity provided me with something that I’d wanted since its launch: a Wii U. All that remained between my forearm and hand were fragments of bone. I picked myself up, held my arm out straight to assess the damage… and my wrist swung like a saloon door well past ninety degrees. It couldn’t have been more than thirty minutes into the session by the time that I found myself with my feet where my head should’ve been, my wrist making first contact with the court upon landing after a Loony Tunes-type accident saw me slip on a haphazard ball which rolled in from another court. Standing in the middle of three courts, drills unfolding on either side of me, I got to playing. I was ecstatic, tennis being my favourite sport. After my first day of classes, I excitedly changed into exercise clothes as it was time to start tennis practice for the year.
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