Finding the best family games on Wii

The other day, as I was getting my hair done (no, being a games journalist doesn’t mean you can’t get your groom on), I found out that my hairdresser is a huge gamer. As she colored the locks, she divulged her love for Nintendo games (Wii and GameCube these days), her collection of Mario characters hanging in her car, and of her son’s pride in his gamer mom. She described how she and her husband and her son once passed the controller around for hours as they conquered Zelda: Wind Waker and went on about how heated the competition gets in her family’s nightly WarioWare sessions. Jen totally changed my mind about gamer moms – she’s not just buying whatever her kid wants and plopping him down in front of the TV – she’s as into the games as he is – and that makes her a total badass.