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One of the many things that sucked about NoA'a presentation at E3 '08 was the complete and utter lack of Captain Rainbow footage. In case you missed Chad's previous coverage of the game, here's a quick recap. Captain Rainbow is a television super hero who's alter ego is a nerdy looking guy who loves flowered print shirts. He wanders an island populated by washed up Nintendo game characters like a man voiced Birdo and the guy from NES Golf (who may or may not be Mario) and tries to help them not hate life. Imagine a Smash Bros. "lifestyle" RPG that teeters on "Maximum Risky", and you're half way to understanding Captain Rainbow (which is farther than most people will ever get).
 
Newly revealed to appear in the game are Little Mac, who has since gone the way of Violet Beauregard, and Takamaru, the protagonist of a totally obscure Famicom Disk System game.
 
Hit the jump of a second video of the game, this time depicting Fat Mac chatting it up about the Birdo thing.
 
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mrplow8's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 18:02
mrplow8
This game is like playing NES on acid. And Little Mac really little himself go since his appearance in Smash Bros., which was just a few months ago.
LionheartAce's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 18:30
LionheartAce
Dear God. What is this? Have I taken too many poison mushrooms? Is this the dreaded minus world?
topgeargorilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 18:44
topgeargorilla
Maximum Risky is kinda a Kotaku thing. I'm gonna have to call you out on that.
Verol's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 19:14
Verol
I love phat Mac.

Yes of course, make the American fat. Typical.
NihonTiger90's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 19:17
NihonTiger90
This game is looking good, in that WTF kind of way.
mrplow8's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 19:17
mrplow8
I meant to say "Little Mac really LET himself go". That was a typo, not a bad pun.
SWE3tMadness's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 19:36
SWE3tMadness
I don't know why I didn't see this title earlier here. DO WANT. :D
GohanGVO's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 19:50
GohanGVO
Nintendo has officially gone batshit insane.
Person of Lordly Caliber's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 20:01
Person of Lordly Caliber
Conversely, you can call this Segagaga with Nintendo characters.
Oh Nintendo, Sega steals your good ideas and you steal their obscure ones.
Do you hear that Nintendo? Steal Shenmue and we'll call it even for Sonic's Master Sword exploits.
Genmo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 20:14
Genmo
Why does it sound like the audio was recorded through a can and a string?
Person of Lordly Caliber's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 20:25
Person of Lordly Caliber
@Genmo
They were trying for the whole "rejected 50's TV" feeling to put it in perspective for newcomers that these Nintendo characters are OLD.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 20:51
Mxyzptlk
Little Mac has obviously not been using Wii Fit.
Rainbowblack's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 21:18
Rainbowblack
Not on my DO WANT list, but thats mainly because that game will never see the light of day in the states.

I'll keep my fingers crossed though, if theres anything that will get me to dust off my lil wite paperweight its captain rainbow.
Jonathan Holmes's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 21:57
Jonathan Holmes
Wait a minute, what web site is this? All this time they've been telling that Destructoid is just Yiddish for Kotaku. That's the only way they got me to work here.

I guess this will be my last post ever. Good Bye everybody.
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 22:03
Cheeburga
e_e
Jonathan Holmes's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 22:18
Jonathan Holmes
Was it too soon, Chee?

I'm still grieving Ron's leaving us for the big "K" as well, but just like with 911, you got to start laughing so you can stop crying.

Or maybe the joke just sucked.
Blind assassin's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 23:23
Blind assassin
Definitely keeping at least one eye on this game at all times. I might not buy it at full price when it eventually comes to North America (fucking bothers me when people talk about the US release date when there are at least two countries that matter on the continent) but I'm anticipating it.
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/24/2008 02:17
Justice
This game sure is odd.
Batthink's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/24/2008 03:50
Batthink
Can Captain Rainbow save us from casual games?

He'll be a real super-hero if he does.
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