Thursday, January 26, 2006

Nintendo at Sundance



On Nintendo´s press server there is an article summing up Nintendo´s presence at the Sundance film festival. It reads:
DID YOU KNOW? NINTENDO DRAWS AN A-LIST CROWD AT SUNDANCE

Jan. 25, 2006

Celebrities from the worlds of music, film and television lined up to check out the coolest Nintendo products on display at the Sundance Film Festival. Luminaries like Paris Hilton, Good Charlotte, Rob Lowe, Jessica Biel and the Beastie Boys visited Nintendo this week in Motorola’s Moto on Main celebrity lounge in the heart of Park City, Utah.

Visitors to the lounge got to check out all the hottest new Nintendo games for the top-selling Nintendo DS™, Game Boy® Micro and Nintendo GameCube™. Celebs like Lance Bass, Shannon Elizabeth, John Malkovich, Kristen Bell, Lucy Liu, William H. Macy and Tommy Lee received hands-on demos of the Nintendogs™ puppy training program and the hot Mario Kart® DS racing game, which features wireless online play via Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection. They also got sneak previews of the upcoming Metroid® Prime Hunters, Super Princess Peach™ and Tetris® DS games for Nintendo DS. The music-making program Electroplankton™ piqued the interest of the Beastie Boys, who will receive copies for themselves.

Other Nintendo visitors included Minnie Driver, Dennis Quaid, Chris Masterson, Joe Pantoliano, Adrian Grenier, Michael Rapaport, Nick Nolte, Daryl Hannah and Giancarlo Esposito.
Nintendo´s James Sakshaug was lucky enough to show their games and hardware to the celebrities, including Mixmaster Mike and the Beastie Boys, which suddenly combines my two main passions in life, for the first time. I just knew they´d love ´Electroplankton´.

Want to see for yourself? Head on over to WireImage, search for ´Nintendo´ within the ´Caption´ heading and you´ll see almost three pages of various celebrities playing Micro and DS. Don´t pay too much attention to the taglines, though. They believe Reggie Fils-Aime to be ´CEO Nintendo´ and list Beastie Adam Yauch´s nickname as ´MAC´. Good turnout for Nintendo, though.

Source: Nintendo press server, WireImage
Image source: Nintendo press server, WireImage

18 comments:

  1. fAL
    PLEASE RELAX A LITTLE BIT YOU WORK TOO MUCH GO VISIT THE kÖLNER DOM OR LAY DOWN AND SLEEP TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND FORGET EVERYTHING VIDEOGAME RELATED FOR A MINUTE BUY YOUR GIRLFRIEND SOME FLOWERS SHOW HER THAT SHE IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR YOU THAN VIDEOGAMES TRY OUT NEW THINGS FLY AROUND THE WORLD LEARN THE SECRETS OF TEI-CHI HOW ABOUT SOME YOGA SEE THERE IS JUST SO MUCH MORE TO LIFE THAN NINTENDO IF YOU TAKE A BREAK YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT THE SHEER AMOUNT OF NEWS WAITING FOR YOU WHEN YOU COME BACK EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED AND YOU WILL APPRECIATE AND ENJOY IT MUCH MORE THAN YOU POSSIBLY COULD ON A DAILY BASIS THINK ABOUT IT I MEAN IT IS COOL AND EVERYTHING TO SPECULATE AND POST NEWS SO DONT GET ME WRONG BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY IT COMES DOWN TO ONE THING THAT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO COME AND VISIT THIS BLOG HAVE IN COMMON AND THATS THE PASSION FOR PLAYING

    AND THATS BASICALLY WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO EVERYBODY READING THIS SHOULD STOP THIS VERY SECOND GRAB A CONTROLLER AND JUST HAVE FUN

    EVEN IF OUR BELOVED INDUSTRY IS DECLINING NO ONE CAN DENY THAT THERE STILL ARE GAMES OUT THERE THAT ARE PLAIN AND SIMPLE FUN
    BE IT NEW GAMES OR CLASSICS
    TOO MANY PEOPLE SPEND THEIR PRECIOUS TIME READING NEWS SITES NEGATIVE REVIEWS PREVIEWS RUMOURS SPECULATION GOSSIP AND WHAT NOT INSTEAD OF DOING WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYING?
    TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE I HAVE ADVISE DONT REMINSCE ON THE GOOD OLD TIMES AND DONT LOOK TOO FAR AHEAD YOU SIMPLY DONT NEED TO SEE LIVE YOUR LIFES NOW OTHERWISE YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE DISSAPOINTED EVREYTIME TIME IF SOMETHING YOU WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO DOESNT LIVE UP TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND TRUST ME THIS WILL HAPPEN
    DONT LET NEGATIVE REVIEWS AFFECT YOUR DECISIONS GO AND BUY ELECTROPLANKTON SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS METROID PRIME RESI4 GRIM FANDANGO MONKEY ISLAND KILLER 7 ZELDA MARIO REZ ICO GOLDENEYE BRAIN TRAINER FINAL FANTASY SECRET OF MANA SONIC METAL GEAR SOLID TEKKEN NBA JAM DONKEY KONG SPIDERMAN PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER HALF LIFE 2 SHADOWMAN INDIANA JONES BOMBERMAN SPAWN GRAN TURISMO GTA WIPEOUT STEET FIGHTER NIGHTS METAL SLUG DAY OF THE TENTACLE BURNOUT MORTAL KOMBAT MAX PAYNE ETC.

    SO MANY GAMES SO MUCH FUN TO BE HAD SO DONT BOTHER GO AND EXPIERIENCE SOMETHING NO MATTER WHICH SYSTEM YOU OWN THERE IS ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE TO HAVE A SLICE OF PIE AND EVERY TASTE
    DONT WASTE YOUR TIME JUST LET EVERYTHING BEHIND YOU THIS VERY MOMENT THINK ABOUT IT TOUROUGHLY WHY YOU ARE EVEN HERE ON THIS BLOG HOW IT ALL STARTED REMEMBER THE TIMES WHERE YOU HAD SO MUCH FUN PLAYING BOMBERMAN OR GOLDENEYE WITH YOUR MATES NOT CAREING ABOUT TOMORROW OR ANY ADDITIONAL UNDISCLOSED CONSOLE SECRETS REMEMBER HOW YOU DIGGED DEEP INTO THE WORLDS OF METROID AND ZELDA FORGETTING EVERYTHING AROUND YOU REMEMBER BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF YOUR OPPONENTS IN TEKKEN SOUL CALIBUR STREET FIGHTER ETC.

    YOU DONT HAVE TO CHECK THE INTERNET TEN TIMES A DAY FOR INFO
    ITS NOT WORTH A STRAW YOU JUST LOOSE SIGHT OF THE ESSENTIALS STUCK UP IN THIS INTERWOVEN MESH OF USELESS HYPE AND ANTICIPATION
    TAKE MY WORDS FOR IT DONT LET THE DRAMA CATCH YOU NO NEED FOR ALARM

    JUST ENJOY PLAYING GAMES AND BY NEW ONES TO ENSURE THIS INDUSTRY STAYS VITAL

    PEACE AND IM OUT
    (I HAVE GOT TO FINISH KILLER7)

    -LIGHTSHEDDER

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  2. LOL-I like your sense of humor Fal.
    I presume you know better than me that my words must have had some merit or should I say impact?! but nevermind.(;

    Lass dich net stressen

    -LightShedder

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  3. It's interesting how I rarely see articles about Sony or Microsoft in relation to celebrities trying their products, but about every three or four months I see one about Nintendo.

    It must be their preferred method of advertising and building image. It doesn't work with me though. I hate to admit it, but I had never heard of most of the people in the pictures on WireImage.

    On the same note, the captions are pretty funny to read through. They should of stuck with "Nintendo Products" on all of them. Instead we get:

    Wavebird controllers - "Nintendo Game Boy Cube"

    GB Micro - "Nintendo DS"

    GB Micro - "Nintendo Portable Player"

    I think the inconsistency is what makes it funny. They get it right in some pictures and wrong in the next.

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  4. googleplexer i'm surprised you havent seen this much with the other companies not that long ago they showed paris hilton (the girl in top pic) with a xbox 360 while they are still having supply issues at that. and if you dont know who paris hiltin is when you see her then you must live under rock

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  5. LIGHTSHEDDER
    I agree on most of it, well said.

    But dont play a video game - take a walk, read a book, practice religion, anything where you dont stare into a screen, meet some people and have a discussion about something not technically related. Enjoy your life while you can.

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  6. @ Blizz419

    I said I didn't reconize most of the people. Not all of them. I go mostly by names anyway.

    With the 360, I knwo there was the revealing on MTV with a bunch of celebreties, but that seems like a one time deal.

    It just seems like there are way more "Famous Person + Nintendo" events than "Famous Person + Microsoft/Sony" events.

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  7. I think Paris Hilton is seriousgamer007( http://www.seriousgamer007.com ). I mean look at here face.

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  8. i didnt mean the revealing goggle plexer i was talking about 2 weeks ago or so

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  9. shice, jetzt hab ich die rtl2 news verpasst! was war denn da nun über splinter cell?

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  10. FALAAAAAAAAA !

    there was a splinter cell report on RTL II today !!

    do u have a video of it ? :D

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  11. I;ve never seen a white girl more interest in the camera than she is interested in the DS

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  12. Seriousgamer007.com / On Nintendo.com have updated their homepage. It promises breaking news for February 3rd. I guess it´s just the launch date of the site. I´m interested to see who´s behind it.

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  13. An interesting OT from RevolutionReport

    "According to a job listing at Creative Heads, an associate sponsor for the D.I.C.E Summit 2006 held next month in Nevada, Midway Studios of Austin is looking for a Level Layout Designer for a first-person shooter slated all three next-generation consoles.

    From the Web site:
    "Midway-Studios Austin has exciting opportunities for Level Layout Designers to apply their specialized skills on a high profile, next-generation first-person shooter using the Unreal 3 engine. You will be instrumental in visualizing game levels, and working under the direction of the Lead Level Designer. You will work within a level strike team, with a scripter, an audio implementer, and environment artists, to turn your dream into a reality."

    Up until this point, it could not be determined whether or not the Nintendo Revolution would have the technical capacity to handle Epic Games' Unreal 3 Engine. However, given that Midway is planning development of this game on all three next-generation platforms utilizing the middleware, it would seem Nintendo's next console does have the ability to handle Unreal 3. Of course, this comes without official confirmation from Nintendo."

    If it is true seems a great news for those worried about the supposed lack of next-gen graphic on Revo(not me however).
    Luca S. (Italy)
    P.S. What a snowy day!

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  14. that video would of been nice if it wasnt filmed in the dark with nightvision lol

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  15. This is some irrelevent shit right here. Why the fuck should anyone care if Paris Hilton is playing a Nintendo DS?
    -MNT

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  16. http://www.revolutionreport.com/articles/read/280

    Rev able to run Unreal 3?

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