Mario Kart: Midnight Launch

What a bust. Here's my Twitter for the evening (in reverse chron):

thrustinj: looking for Wii Mario Kart friends. Send me your friend codes! less than 5 seconds ago from web

thrustinj: on my way home. 38 minutes ago from txt

thrustinj: happy the employees finally got back to the store. I'm still the only one here. No one love Mario Kart? about 2 hours ago from txt

thrustinj: so bored. But I'm watching a father and son panic about why the store isn't open yet. about 2 hours ago from txt

thrustinj: still the only one here. At least in hiding in my car. about 2 hours ago from txt

thrustinj: feeling Mario Kart doesn't need a launch like this. And why didn't I bring my DS? about 2 hours ago from txt

thrustinj: watching two guys with a big box walk into Gamestop. Mii thinks it's Mario Kart for the midnight release. about 2 hours ago from txt

About 30 people ended up showing up during the last 15 minutes before midnight. The store guy had a few Mario Christmas ornaments to give out as prizes, but he couldn't think up 3 "Nintendo related" questions, so he randomly threw them out to the sparsely populated queue. Yeah, we're all going to jump around like a bunch of wedding idiots. Then he told us that he had a list of upcoming Wii releases and told us that he highly recommended the new Facebreaker boxing game. I know he's never played it. So why is he recommending it. Stupid.

When I finally got the game back home, I hooked up with a co-worker and we were pretty quickly online and playing. Then after one race, my Wii gave me an error message and said I needed to restart the console. We played a few more and it did it again. I'll have to check the web and see if others are getting this error. If it happens again, I'm taking it back for another disk.

Oh well. We'll give it the weekend to see how it goes.