As you know, it is common among video game blogs to have a "What Are You Playing" feature on Fridays. Or, well, in my case, 12:29 AM Saturday morning!

However, I thought it would be much more fun to turn to the Howard family black sheep, little known crazy uncle Zeppo Howard. Zeppo, you see, has one of those crazy, "modded" Wiis you hear whispered about, and often shops for his games in a dark alley from a shady fellow named "P-Tron." As such, Zeppo often plays, well, some rather curious variants of the latest Nintendo Wii and DS games....



This is uncle Zeppo. He looks quite a bit like Ernest Borgnine, as you can see.

Rob Howard: "Hey there, uncle Zeppo. I'm writing for a new Nintendo blog now, House of Nintendo. I'd like to ask you every week about the games you are currently playing. I know you stay up on all the latest releases. So, what'd you think of Cruis'n? Is it a worthy follow-up to the old N64 classic?"

Uncle Zeppo: "Oh, yeah, it's great! I really love how you have to manuever around Oprah's couch, paparazzi, and angry studio executives!"

RH: "Huh? Isn't this a racing game? Um... well, never mind. Let me ask you about one more release this week. Mario Party came out on the DS. How are you liking that?"

Uncle Zeppo: "I don't know. I really didn't think it was fun at all."

RH: "That's understandable. Some people just don't like Mario Party. The board game format is a little..."

UZ: "Board game? I WISH it had a board game! It's all about this former NY Governor, and how I have to help his son get a job at a major TV network, and..."

RH: "Ok, ok, we get the idea. Well, there you have it, Nintendo fans. Crazy Uncle Zeppo. Who knows what odd black market finds he'll stumble upon next week?"

Check out the actual week's releases, via nintendowiifanboy.com.