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Nintendo invades malls for the holidays photo

Unless you're the type that confines yourself to your home and orders all your Christmas gifts through Amazon (not the world's worst idea, really), you're likely to go to a mall at least once this holiday season. If you do, you just might bump into Nintendo Holiday Mall Experience. What is that exactly, you say? Well, it'll be a little area set up in certain malls this Holiday season that will allow people to check out a ton of cool Nintendo games.

Featured will be Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii Fit Plus, Style Savvy, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Sure, maybe you've been reading about those games for months now, but the whole Holiday Mall Experience is really geared more towards the person who doesn't voraciously consume game blogs like the air they breathe. You can also check out the way MotionPlus works and download demos for your DSi. Got to hand it to Nintendo -- they're trying to turn the world into gamers, and I appreciate that -- makes it easier for me to explain my primary hobby to people!

The Nintendo Holiday Mall Experience runs Nov. 23 through Dec. 20 at the following locations:

  • Chandler Fashion Center in Chandler, Ariz.
  • Westfield Culver City in Culver City, Calif.
  • Westfield Parkway in El Cajon, Calif.
  • Ontario Mills in Ontario, Calif.
  • Westfield San Francisco Centre in San Francisco
  • Danbury Fair Mall in Danbury, Conn.
  • Orange Park Mall in Orange Park, Fla.
  • Florida Mall in Orlando, Fla.
  • Tyrone Square in St. Petersburg, Fla.
  • Lenox Square in Atlanta
  • River Oaks Center in Calumet City, Ill.
  • Greenwood Park in Greenwood, Ind.
  • Arundel Mills in Hanover, Md.
  • South Shore Plaza in Braintree, Mass.
  • Burlington Mall in Burlington, Mass.
  • Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn.
  • Southdale Center in Edina, Minn.
  • Deptford Mall in Deptford, N.J.
  • Queens Center in Elmhurst, N.Y.
  • Roosevelt Field in Garden City, N.Y.
  • Galleria of White Plains in White Plains, N.Y.
  • The Mall at Tuttle Crossing in Dublin, Ohio
  • Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City
  • Franklin Mills in Philadelphia
  • Wolfchase Galleria in Memphis, Tenn.
  • Grapevine Mills in Grapevine, Texas
  • Irving Mall in Irving, Texas
  • Ingram Park Mall in San Antonio
  • Chesapeake Square in Chesapeake, Va.
  • Virginia Center Commons in Glen Allen, Va.
  • Tysons Corner Center in McLean, Va.
  • Potomac Mills in Prince William, Va.
  • Northgate Mall in Seattle
  • Westfield Southcenter in Seattle
  • Southridge Mall in Greendale, Wisc.

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Anjo's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 17:32
Anjo
Smart move.
Jared Ari's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 17:37
Jared Ari
Damn, nothing even remotely near me.
Technophile's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 17:53
Technophile
Where did you get that picture of me Colette? :P
MarlinClock's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 18:00
MarlinClock
Nintendo must be strapped for cash or something, the only mall near Chicago they pick is the River Oaks Center? Why not Woodfield?
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 18:20
Monodi
Chandler, AZ? Nothing against the people living there but come ooooonnn. Why not Tucson? Why not Phoenix at the very least?
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 18:21
Monodi
Wait, I just noticed Chandler is a suburb of Phoenix.
Automatic Shotgun's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 18:25
Automatic Shotgun
Snoogans.
Lockgar's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 18:25
Lockgar
Fly fat-ass fly!
killatia's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 18:40
killatia
Damn, the nearest one is like 2 hours from me.
fulldamage's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 19:14
fulldamage
Oh my god. An event is actually occurring at Ontario Mills? Timespace might collapse. I'll have to go there and see what I can do to stop it.
Guagloves's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 19:33
Guagloves
Two of these are actually nearby me for a change and I know where they are. Might go depending on the dates.
mr spooky's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 20:01
mr spooky
Mall Rats pic

nintendo did this a few years ago with wii. Hard to find parking during the holidays.
ikiryou's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 20:24
ikiryou
So..who wants a chocolately, fudgy doughnut?
akaryan18's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2009 21:30
akaryan18
@ MarlinClock

I was just about to ask the same thing. Its the 5th largest mall with PLENTY of space for nintendo to set something up. I work there (manager at hollister. . .dont hate me.)and I know there's 290 shops which 15 are being redone/moving somewhere else. And anyone who goes there knows they have the shittest gamestop with the dumbest kids working there. . . actually maybe thats why.
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/20/2009 15:28
Knivy
I think one of those is like 1 1/2 hours away from me, don't think it's worth the trip.
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