Last week I hosted a movie-and-game-night-themed party at my house in conjunction with Nintendo and Netflix. As you’ve probably heard, Nintendo and Netflix now have a partnership that allows you to watch movies and TV shows streamed from Netflix on your Wii console.

The folks from Nintendo let me choose where to order food from and I chose Pizza Metro. I love the pizza there and I miss hanging out at the counter at 1 a.m. like Dallas and I used to when I lived nearby. The pizza came just in time, right before the guests. Nintendo also provided a lot of movie candy – think Junior Mints, Raisinettes, M&Ms, Dots and Twizzlers – as well as some really delicious movie popcorn.

We started off the party by eating and drinking wine, of course, and then I showed everyone how to stream Netflix through the Wii. Instead of watching a full-length movie, we watched some really early episodes of 30 Rock. It was a school night, afterall!

After that we played an epic game of Bags/Cornhole on the Wii. I chose this game because up to 16 people can play at one time, so we would all be able to play at once, without anyone sitting out. For the 8 of us, it went tournament style and lasted a lot longer than I was expecting, but it was fun. Kate was the big winner in that game. We also played a game called TV Show King, which I thought was a blast.

At the end of the night everyone got a gift from Nintendo – point cards (kind of like gift cards) for downloading free content for the Wii or Nintendo DS. Also, they had originally offered to give me a 3-month trial membership to Netflix so I could host the party. Since I already have a membership to Netflix and didn’t need the trial, I was able to give the trial to one of the party guests. Yay! Fun fun fun!

Last but not least, here two 30-second movies I made using my still camera and a Flip Video camera that Nintendo gave me to help me become my own movie maker. I also used Animoto to compile the movies and photographs together with music.

Disclosure: For this event Nintendo provided Nintendo 2,000 Points cards, a Flip video camera, as well as all the food and a free 3 month Netflix subscription.

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