One of the great things about games is the chance to do things you might never otherwise do. Racing and flying are two good examples. How many of us are going to race an Indy 500 car or fly a WWII fighter plane? The Wii lets you do that and a whole lot more. You can get in the driver’s seat with Mario...

At bottom, WiiConnect24 is ultra simple: it’s the feature of the Wii system that allows it to check for game updates, messages, and other items online. But that simple description can be fleshed out quite a bit. Since it is in essence an Internet connection (that’s where the game updates,...