Do you remember when we told you about Nintendo's "one of a kind" celestial event that was supposed to happen today? We guessed that Nintendo was going to pull off some cool stunt to promote the new Kirby game. Well, at least the Kirby part was right.
By the way they were talking the other day, I seriously thought Nintendo was going to block out the sun and take us back to the dark ages. Or at least something grand and flashy. But Binge Gamer went to one of the "sighting" locations, Kirby Park in Kingston, PA, only to find three college students running a bubble machine. That's it. No fanfare, just lumps of bubbles laying on the ground.
Nintendo, what were you thinking?
[Thanks, Jim Walker]
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2:24 PM on 09.18.2008
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BIG SHOCKER!!! STOP THE PRESSES!!!
I had my hopes up that we would get a kirby console game.
The future is so unexpectedly hilarious!
Had I gone, you would have been reading about a man going psycho on a couple college students.
It's like it's the 80's all over again, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y52Wz0r6Iho
wait for the ads, they should be cool, big powerhouse hired for the ads
Nintendo, do yourself a favor and find the guy whose idea it was for this stunt and fire him.
The idea behind this event was to use kirby-shaped bubbles (made of soap and helium) to represent Kirby's ability to fly.
At least the Kirby DS commercial is pretty cool.
Nothing for the hardcore gamers? Hardcore gamers are the kind of people that would get excited about a sheet of video game related stickers. The people complaining about what Nintendo's not; isn't even a demographic Nintendo cares about.