Alongside the release of the Nintendo Wii in 2006, Nintendo introduced a new form of custom avatar to go with the Wii’s burgeoning ecosystem, Miis. Miis were cute little people you could create in the image of yourself, your friends, and your family, or rough approximations of your favorite cartoon characters. Besides denoting accounts, Miis could be used as playable characters in many Wii games, with the most prominent example being ‘Wii Sports.’ Seeing a little character with a
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