Wii Lets Girl With No Muscles Get Her Game On

Dec. 28 10:03 AM by Lynxara

I try to keep the number of Wii 'miracle stories' on this site down to avoid getting too treacly (or repetitive), but this story is something special. Taylor Smith has a degenerative muscle illness called arthrogryposis, which means virtually no muscles in her arms. This makes doing a lot of things most of take for granted, well, hard. Video games, for instance? Impossible.

Until now.

He used four hair ties to attach the console's controller to Taylor's arm and she was away.

The success prompted Mr Watkins to write to Nintendo [of Australia] for help, which came in the form of a new console delivered to the Smith family's Corio home for free.

Taylor and her siblings happily played with their new console yesterday.

She could barely wipe the smile off her face and neither could anyone else.

"This is the first time she has been able to play electric games with her family and it's great to see her smile," Mr Watkins said.

Moral of the story: Wii Sports does magic things.