Imagine if this:
…was turned into this:
Some dudes want to make this happen with a “Nintendo Amusement Park” rig complete with jump-boosting harnesses. They have the concept and tech down, it appears; they just need the cash (and, obviously, a cast of midgets that likes dressing up and being jumped upon).
This kind of silly shit is the next generation’s equivalent of rich tycoons paying to fly to space. And, well, what can I say? I want in.
There was a Japanese game show that did this once; Extreme Elimination Challenge, I think. It was kind of amazing, and made me wish that they had turned that challenge into a carnival ride.
Nintendo Amusement Park is in open beta. Come play with us!
We will be scheduling trial time in the following weeks in the New York City area. Please send an email to team@nintendoamusementpark.com with your name, age, weight, email address, and phone number.
Otherwise, we are looking for other cities to travel to and need a certain number of testers to make it worth our effort. Please send an email to signup@nintendoamusementpark.com with your city, name, age, weight, email address, and phone number.
Hope to see you soon!
you can try it omg
But what about p-wings?
I wonder if everyone gets a paired up midget twin…just in case you get hit by a goomba half way through and need to call in “Little Mario”.
Takeshi’s Castle was the Japanese game show (one of them at least) that had elements almost straight out of the Mario games. It was dubbed over and turned into MXC for Spike TV in the US.
Lots of full size Ms. Packmen gobbling up fruit.
I’m there.
@1: Those games didn’t rig up super-jump bungie rigs, did they? I’ve watched my fair share of Japanese shows and don’t recall them going to THAT length, but I could be mistaken.
Can we all agree that the game industry doesn’t have a shred of originality and probably never will. Everything you will ever see in a game or related to games exists now, and has in fact been around for years. There is nothing new to report and if you write about games you are writing the same story endlessly on a mobius strip.
@9: I think that’s the kind of shit some record label guy said about guitar-rock music when he passed on the Beatles.
I just wish they could make a real life version of Contra.
@9, I’ve worked in the local game industry since 1993 (SNES era) and truer words have never been set in print.
That analogy is spot on perfect.
as #1 said…been done
http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/1229…
#11:
You’d die in about 25 seconds. Konami Code is useless in real life. I’ve tried.
I got the Meggy Jr RGB for my sweetie cooch last month. Handling a soldering gun is more ‘up her alley’ since she basically ‘wears the pants’ in our relationship. For Christmas I’m now thinking of those Voda earphones Bailo mentioned. She’ll be Hi-Fi heaven, while I’ll be buried in bush.
In my ideal dream super fantasy world, I think this would be the location of my first date with Paul Constant. Yep.
#9:
Wow, that’s a really ignorant comment. I built my latest PC just so I could play Unreal Tournament 3 on it. To me, there is nothing before or since that is like UT3. The fluidity…the physics…the team play. It’s unique. It’s real.
Side tech note: Obama A Penguin?
http://you-read-it-here-first.com/viewto…
I would rather travel into space thank you so very much.
FAIL!!! this post has nothing to do with Obama’s sweep or the Prop8 protests, so it has no right to be here on the Slog.
The amusement park has been “In progress on 2006.05.16.”
http://www.nintendoamusementpark.com/bac…
How will they simulate the fireballs?
@22
Simulate? Put on some goggles an fire-retardant jammies and grow a pair. Fire is fun!
Seems like this would be pretty boring for the participant, at least visually. I mean, what would they be looking at exactly? There’s a reason these game are referred to as “side scrollers”, after all.
@11 – It’s called war.
See “One Flat Thing” Choreography, William Forsythe at Pacific Northwest Ballet. As game as a ballet can get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXxKPbjL8…