You need to have a wireless internet conection or a wireless router for your modem. You will need to get a WEP code for the wirless router. Once you have the WEP code, go to options on the Wii menu and set up the internet from there (not hard). After you have set up the connection you can buy Wii points. You can buy them with your credit card on the Wii or you buy them in a prepaud card where the games are sold. Once you have some points then buy the internet Wii channel, only costs $5. You can also purchase old NES, super ninitendo, Nintendo 64, sega genisis, and a couple of other older system games online. Games are 5$ to $10. I got the old super mario games ( 1 and 3). We had company over and everybody wanted to play the old games because thats is what they played when they were growing up. Pretty fun!