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Photo story: Nintendo Wii launch night

By Rory Reid on 08 December 2006, 12:28pm

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Midnight on 8 December 2006 marked the release of the most anticipated next-generation gaming console of the year, the Nintendo Wii. Hundreds queued outside Game and HMV on London's Oxford street to be among the first to purchase the new Nintendo machine.

The UK launch mirrored those of the Japanese and US markets and brought with it a clutch of celebrities, including ex-footballer Ian Wright, model Nell McAndrew, former tennis star Pat Cash and boxer Ricky Hatton who, incidentally, lost to Wright in a bout of Wii Boxing.

Wright later made a fool of himself by presenting the first Wii to HMV customer Marwan Elgamal (who had camped out for two days) and asking him if The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was a fighting game. Down the road at Game, Vic Ainsworth was rewarded for being first in the queue with a console and a few glasses of champagne.

Check out the pictures from the launch to see how it all went down. -RR

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