How I scored a Nintendo Wii.

Mark Morford, an SFGate columnists writes about how he obtained the most sought after Christmas item this year. The Nintendo Wii.

The sky was still inky and dark when I pulled into the Best Buy parking lot over on Geary at 6:00 am on that flat, cold Sunday morning, cold even for San Francisco, colder than Dick Cheney’s pitiless glare, colder than Rudolph’s darkest revenge fantasies, completely unsure as to what I’d find there and completely unsure if I would be far too late or far too early because there was simply no way to tell.

This was the deal: Two weeks prior, the uber-jaded Best Buy sales dudes told me that each Bay Area store was only getting about 100 units (absolutely the final Wii shipment before Christmas, dude) and they would sell them all when the doors opened at 8:00 am on Dec. 16 and it was first-come, first-served and hence there was no way to know just how insane or depressing or frightening it all might be.

Read the rest of this great article.