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Title: Retirees find Wii not just for the grandkids - Reuters Post by: Mark David on March 29, 2007, 02:10:45 PM Until two weeks ago, Ruth Ebert never had the slightest interest in the video games favored by her one and only granddaughter. "I'm 82 years old, so I missed that part of our culture. Soap operas, yes. Video games, no," chirped Ebert, who recently started playing a tennis game on Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s new Wii video game console at the Virginia retirement community she calls home.... "I played tennis, if you can call it that, as a high school student. I had such fun doing it," she said. Ebert swung the Wiimote just like a tennis racquet and said playing the game reminded her of the feeling she had all those years ago.
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