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The ‘Wonderful World Of Nintendo’ is a phrase that is used often within the gaming community – magazines especially. Well, we know what’s so wonderful about the games, but what’s so wonderful about this world? Well, a plane ticket to Japan and a few hundred miles later I was at Nintendo HQ, outside the portal, anxiously waiting to find out. I didn’t have much time to admire the room though, as I was rudely shoved into this vortex by someone I couldn’t see, just as it closed up.
I felt the ground disappear, only to be replaced, seconds later, with a rough uneven surface. The wind had picked up too and it wasn’t long before it occurred to me that I was moving fast. Very fast. After a while, I managed to come to my senses and I soon realised I was on some kind of meteorite speeding through space. Amazingly I could breathe, but questioning science wasn’t too high on my priority list, as I was suddenly thrown backwards due to a sudden collision. Almost immediately after this I was hurled forwards and landed on some kind of spacecraft in which I saw a rather small fellow frantically working the controls. I hammered hard on the window with my fist and the spaceman looked up, startled. He pressed a button and I fell through the window, into the craft. I landed on my head – hard – and this caused me to black out, but I am uncertain as to how long I was unconscious.
When I came to, I was lying on soft ground. Soft, moving ground. Shocked, I sat up, only to find about ten small creatures, of different colours carrying me. On closer inspection, they appeared to be Pikmin, and dropped me by the kind man who had taken me inside the spacecraft. He introduced himself as Captain Olimar, and explained I had just ruined the opening sequence of ‘Pikmin 2: The Pikmin Strike Back’. He waved his hand vaguely to the bushes behind him, explaining that the ‘Super Mario Travel Service’ could take me to the city. Puzzled, I pushed my way through the shrubs and thicket to find a rather colourful green dinosaur standing in a clearing. Feeling stupid, I enquired about the travel service. The dinosaur, to my amazement, replied: ‘Yoshi!’. Even more perplexed I repeated the question, this time with obvious hand gestures. I got a longer answer, but it was less than helpful: ‘Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi!’. I was about to call back to Mr Olimar for help, but I was suddenly gripped by a strong pink rope (well, on first inspection it appeared that way, but it turned out to be this dinosaur’s tongue). I was so taken aback, I barely resisted, and ‘Yoshi’ promptly ate me. Or so I thought…
About thirty minutes later, my surroundings cracked and shattered, and I realised that I had been enclosed inside some kind of egg. I turned to mutter some gratitude for the ‘transport’ but ‘Yoshi’ had already jumped away, twice, with some sort of flutter and odd noise in mid-air. I picked myself up lazily, and dusted off the shell that remained on my clothes. When I pulled myself together, pinched my arm a few times, and managed to stand without my legs buckling, I eventually had a look at my surroundings.
The ‘city’ was a blast of vibrant colours and imagination. It was like being in a dream world, everything seemed so fun and enjoyable. The houses were toadstools, and the roads had boxes with ‘?’ written on them, hovering just above the ground. No space seemed unaccounted for, and there was a mammoth amount of things to see and do.
To my left, there was Donkey Kong and Link, having what seemed like a hardcore match on Samus’ home planet, Brinstar. A group of people that looked like toadstools themselves stood a safe distance away, chanting ‘Go Link!’ or ‘Donkey Kong!’ when something happened. All of a sudden, Peach and Bowser zoomed past me, smashing into those question mark boxes. Three red shells materialised around Bowser, and after a stern look at Peach, who saw the shells and ran crying to Toad, he took the lead. On my right, James Bond and Joanna Dark were having a shoot out, with a number of scared scientists mixed up in the action. After a gruesome battle, it looked like Ms Dark was going to win, until 007 managed to somehow open a mechanical door with his mind and run to safety.
Exasperated, I sank to the floor, trying to take all this in at once, but I was suddenly brought back to reality when I was jumped on by a portly man in a red T-shirt and dungarees:
“It’s-a me! Mario!”
Dusting myself off, I stood up and looked at the grinning plumber. He was a good two feet shorter than me, and every so often would do a back-flip accompanied by a “Woo-hoo!”. I finally managed to ask him about this strange and wonderful world I was in. He gestured to a large monumental statue of Shigeru Miyamoto, their God, and told me that was where ‘brothers’ were born. Another interesting thing was that lives could be automatically bought for one hundred coins, and that various portals could take you to various worlds such as The Mushroom Kingdom, Hyrule or, as Conker so gracefully put it – “The high life”. This one had an ‘18’ certificate hovering next to it…
On hearing the word portal, however, I started to get excited. Perhaps this was the way back home? Without hesitation, I asked Mr. Mario Mario about this, only to find that the way back was across a series of high jumps, fire breathing dragons, gorillas and.. er.. X-Boxes. Turning around, I shook my head and said it was impossible.
“For Shigsy’s sake-a! Have you not-a been listening? Just collect one hundred coins for extra life-a!”
And so, feeling like an idiot, I quickly ran into every gold coin around me. At what must have been one hundred, I threw up a large green ‘1-Up!’ and it floated away. I staggered around, choking and spluttering for a while, before standing up and looking at Mario.
Laughing, he suddenly lunged forward and pushed me off the cliff, to whatever oblivion lay below. I was so shocked and taken aback, instead of crying out in fear, pain and anger, I turned to the ‘screen’, shrugged, grinned and fell to my death.. At least, that’s what I thought…
I hit hard, uneven ground, and felt air rushing quickly into and around me. It was after but a few seconds that I realised everything had started over, and I was back on the meteorite speeding through that physics defying space. Without a second thought, I turned and jumped into the portal from whence I came, just as it closed up.
“So,” said Mr Miyamoto “did you have fun?”.
I felt the ground disappear, only to be replaced, seconds later, with a rough uneven surface. The wind had picked up too and it wasn’t long before it occurred to me that I was moving fast. Very fast. After a while, I managed to come to my senses and I soon realised I was on some kind of meteorite speeding through space. Amazingly I could breathe, but questioning science wasn’t too high on my priority list, as I was suddenly thrown backwards due to a sudden collision. Almost immediately after this I was hurled forwards and landed on some kind of spacecraft in which I saw a rather small fellow frantically working the controls. I hammered hard on the window with my fist and the spaceman looked up, startled. He pressed a button and I fell through the window, into the craft. I landed on my head – hard – and this caused me to black out, but I am uncertain as to how long I was unconscious.
When I came to, I was lying on soft ground. Soft, moving ground. Shocked, I sat up, only to find about ten small creatures, of different colours carrying me. On closer inspection, they appeared to be Pikmin, and dropped me by the kind man who had taken me inside the spacecraft. He introduced himself as Captain Olimar, and explained I had just ruined the opening sequence of ‘Pikmin 2: The Pikmin Strike Back’. He waved his hand vaguely to the bushes behind him, explaining that the ‘Super Mario Travel Service’ could take me to the city. Puzzled, I pushed my way through the shrubs and thicket to find a rather colourful green dinosaur standing in a clearing. Feeling stupid, I enquired about the travel service. The dinosaur, to my amazement, replied: ‘Yoshi!’. Even more perplexed I repeated the question, this time with obvious hand gestures. I got a longer answer, but it was less than helpful: ‘Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi!’. I was about to call back to Mr Olimar for help, but I was suddenly gripped by a strong pink rope (well, on first inspection it appeared that way, but it turned out to be this dinosaur’s tongue). I was so taken aback, I barely resisted, and ‘Yoshi’ promptly ate me. Or so I thought…
About thirty minutes later, my surroundings cracked and shattered, and I realised that I had been enclosed inside some kind of egg. I turned to mutter some gratitude for the ‘transport’ but ‘Yoshi’ had already jumped away, twice, with some sort of flutter and odd noise in mid-air. I picked myself up lazily, and dusted off the shell that remained on my clothes. When I pulled myself together, pinched my arm a few times, and managed to stand without my legs buckling, I eventually had a look at my surroundings.
The ‘city’ was a blast of vibrant colours and imagination. It was like being in a dream world, everything seemed so fun and enjoyable. The houses were toadstools, and the roads had boxes with ‘?’ written on them, hovering just above the ground. No space seemed unaccounted for, and there was a mammoth amount of things to see and do.
To my left, there was Donkey Kong and Link, having what seemed like a hardcore match on Samus’ home planet, Brinstar. A group of people that looked like toadstools themselves stood a safe distance away, chanting ‘Go Link!’ or ‘Donkey Kong!’ when something happened. All of a sudden, Peach and Bowser zoomed past me, smashing into those question mark boxes. Three red shells materialised around Bowser, and after a stern look at Peach, who saw the shells and ran crying to Toad, he took the lead. On my right, James Bond and Joanna Dark were having a shoot out, with a number of scared scientists mixed up in the action. After a gruesome battle, it looked like Ms Dark was going to win, until 007 managed to somehow open a mechanical door with his mind and run to safety.
Exasperated, I sank to the floor, trying to take all this in at once, but I was suddenly brought back to reality when I was jumped on by a portly man in a red T-shirt and dungarees:
“It’s-a me! Mario!”
Dusting myself off, I stood up and looked at the grinning plumber. He was a good two feet shorter than me, and every so often would do a back-flip accompanied by a “Woo-hoo!”. I finally managed to ask him about this strange and wonderful world I was in. He gestured to a large monumental statue of Shigeru Miyamoto, their God, and told me that was where ‘brothers’ were born. Another interesting thing was that lives could be automatically bought for one hundred coins, and that various portals could take you to various worlds such as The Mushroom Kingdom, Hyrule or, as Conker so gracefully put it – “The high life”. This one had an ‘18’ certificate hovering next to it…
On hearing the word portal, however, I started to get excited. Perhaps this was the way back home? Without hesitation, I asked Mr. Mario Mario about this, only to find that the way back was across a series of high jumps, fire breathing dragons, gorillas and.. er.. X-Boxes. Turning around, I shook my head and said it was impossible.
“For Shigsy’s sake-a! Have you not-a been listening? Just collect one hundred coins for extra life-a!”
And so, feeling like an idiot, I quickly ran into every gold coin around me. At what must have been one hundred, I threw up a large green ‘1-Up!’ and it floated away. I staggered around, choking and spluttering for a while, before standing up and looking at Mario.
Laughing, he suddenly lunged forward and pushed me off the cliff, to whatever oblivion lay below. I was so shocked and taken aback, instead of crying out in fear, pain and anger, I turned to the ‘screen’, shrugged, grinned and fell to my death.. At least, that’s what I thought…
I hit hard, uneven ground, and felt air rushing quickly into and around me. It was after but a few seconds that I realised everything had started over, and I was back on the meteorite speeding through that physics defying space. Without a second thought, I turned and jumped into the portal from whence I came, just as it closed up.
“So,” said Mr Miyamoto “did you have fun?”.
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Thanks for the feedback Cyclone. ;D
Is that a Weezer 'Say it ain't so', or a Blink one?
(dringos tag I mean)
;)
(dringos tag I mean)
;)
Lol. I should point out this is supposed to be more subtly amusing that on the floor in stitches humour.
No I want my money back!
The ‘Wonderful World Of Nintendo’ is a phrase that is used often within the gaming community – magazines especially. Well, we know what’s so wonderful about the games, but what’s so wonderful about this world? Well, a plane ticket to Japan and a few hundred miles later I was at Nintendo HQ, outside the portal, anxiously waiting to find out. I didn’t have much time to admire the room though, as I was rudely shoved into this vortex by someone I couldn’t see, just as it closed up.
I felt the ground disappear, only to be replaced, seconds later, with a rough uneven surface. The wind had picked up too and it wasn’t long before it occurred to me that I was moving fast. Very fast. After a while, I managed to come to my senses and I soon realised I was on some kind of meteorite speeding through space. Amazingly I could breathe, but questioning science wasn’t too high on my priority list, as I was suddenly thrown backwards due to a sudden collision. Almost immediately after this I was hurled forwards and landed on some kind of spacecraft in which I saw a rather small fellow frantically working the controls. I hammered hard on the window with my fist and the spaceman looked up, startled. He pressed a button and I fell through the window, into the craft. I landed on my head – hard – and this caused me to black out, but I am uncertain as to how long I was unconscious.
When I came to, I was lying on soft ground. Soft, moving ground. Shocked, I sat up, only to find about ten small creatures, of different colours carrying me. On closer inspection, they appeared to be Pikmin, and dropped me by the kind man who had taken me inside the spacecraft. He introduced himself as Captain Olimar, and explained I had just ruined the opening sequence of ‘Pikmin 2: The Pikmin Strike Back’. He waved his hand vaguely to the bushes behind him, explaining that the ‘Super Mario Travel Service’ could take me to the city. Puzzled, I pushed my way through the shrubs and thicket to find a rather colourful green dinosaur standing in a clearing. Feeling stupid, I enquired about the travel service. The dinosaur, to my amazement, replied: ‘Yoshi!’. Even more perplexed I repeated the question, this time with obvious hand gestures. I got a longer answer, but it was less than helpful: ‘Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi!’. I was about to call back to Mr Olimar for help, but I was suddenly gripped by a strong pink rope (well, on first inspection it appeared that way, but it turned out to be this dinosaur’s tongue). I was so taken aback, I barely resisted, and ‘Yoshi’ promptly ate me. Or so I thought…
About thirty minutes later, my surroundings cracked and shattered, and I realised that I had been enclosed inside some kind of egg. I turned to mutter some gratitude for the ‘transport’ but ‘Yoshi’ had already jumped away, twice, with some sort of flutter and odd noise in mid-air. I picked myself up lazily, and dusted off the shell that remained on my clothes. When I pulled myself together, pinched my arm a few times, and managed to stand without my legs buckling, I eventually had a look at my surroundings.
The ‘city’ was a blast of vibrant colours and imagination. It was like being in a dream world, everything seemed so fun and enjoyable. The houses were toadstools, and the roads had boxes with ‘?’ written on them, hovering just above the ground. No space seemed unaccounted for, and there was a mammoth amount of things to see and do.
To my left, there was Donkey Kong and Link, having what seemed like a hardcore match on Samus’ home planet, Brinstar. A group of people that looked like toadstools themselves stood a safe distance away, chanting ‘Go Link!’ or ‘Donkey Kong!’ when something happened. All of a sudden, Peach and Bowser zoomed past me, smashing into those question mark boxes. Three red shells materialised around Bowser, and after a stern look at Peach, who saw the shells and ran crying to Toad, he took the lead. On my right, James Bond and Joanna Dark were having a shoot out, with a number of scared scientists mixed up in the action. After a gruesome battle, it looked like Ms Dark was going to win, until 007 managed to somehow open a mechanical door with his mind and run to safety.
Exasperated, I sank to the floor, trying to take all this in at once, but I was suddenly brought back to reality when I was jumped on by a portly man in a red T-shirt and dungarees:
“It’s-a me! Mario!”
Dusting myself off, I stood up and looked at the grinning plumber. He was a good two feet shorter than me, and every so often would do a back-flip accompanied by a “Woo-hoo!”. I finally managed to ask him about this strange and wonderful world I was in. He gestured to a large monumental statue of Shigeru Miyamoto, their God, and told me that was where ‘brothers’ were born. Another interesting thing was that lives could be automatically bought for one hundred coins, and that various portals could take you to various worlds such as The Mushroom Kingdom, Hyrule or, as Conker so gracefully put it – “The high life”. This one had an ‘18’ certificate hovering next to it…
On hearing the word portal, however, I started to get excited. Perhaps this was the way back home? Without hesitation, I asked Mr. Mario Mario about this, only to find that the way back was across a series of high jumps, fire breathing dragons, gorillas and.. er.. X-Boxes. Turning around, I shook my head and said it was impossible.
“For Shigsy’s sake-a! Have you not-a been listening? Just collect one hundred coins for extra life-a!”
And so, feeling like an idiot, I quickly ran into every gold coin around me. At what must have been one hundred, I threw up a large green ‘1-Up!’ and it floated away. I staggered around, choking and spluttering for a while, before standing up and looking at Mario.
Laughing, he suddenly lunged forward and pushed me off the cliff, to whatever oblivion lay below. I was so shocked and taken aback, instead of crying out in fear, pain and anger, I turned to the ‘screen’, shrugged, grinned and fell to my death.. At least, that’s what I thought…
I hit hard, uneven ground, and felt air rushing quickly into and around me. It was after but a few seconds that I realised everything had started over, and I was back on the meteorite speeding through that physics defying space. Without a second thought, I turned and jumped into the portal from whence I came, just as it closed up.
“So,” said Mr Miyamoto “did you have fun?”.
I felt the ground disappear, only to be replaced, seconds later, with a rough uneven surface. The wind had picked up too and it wasn’t long before it occurred to me that I was moving fast. Very fast. After a while, I managed to come to my senses and I soon realised I was on some kind of meteorite speeding through space. Amazingly I could breathe, but questioning science wasn’t too high on my priority list, as I was suddenly thrown backwards due to a sudden collision. Almost immediately after this I was hurled forwards and landed on some kind of spacecraft in which I saw a rather small fellow frantically working the controls. I hammered hard on the window with my fist and the spaceman looked up, startled. He pressed a button and I fell through the window, into the craft. I landed on my head – hard – and this caused me to black out, but I am uncertain as to how long I was unconscious.
When I came to, I was lying on soft ground. Soft, moving ground. Shocked, I sat up, only to find about ten small creatures, of different colours carrying me. On closer inspection, they appeared to be Pikmin, and dropped me by the kind man who had taken me inside the spacecraft. He introduced himself as Captain Olimar, and explained I had just ruined the opening sequence of ‘Pikmin 2: The Pikmin Strike Back’. He waved his hand vaguely to the bushes behind him, explaining that the ‘Super Mario Travel Service’ could take me to the city. Puzzled, I pushed my way through the shrubs and thicket to find a rather colourful green dinosaur standing in a clearing. Feeling stupid, I enquired about the travel service. The dinosaur, to my amazement, replied: ‘Yoshi!’. Even more perplexed I repeated the question, this time with obvious hand gestures. I got a longer answer, but it was less than helpful: ‘Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi!’. I was about to call back to Mr Olimar for help, but I was suddenly gripped by a strong pink rope (well, on first inspection it appeared that way, but it turned out to be this dinosaur’s tongue). I was so taken aback, I barely resisted, and ‘Yoshi’ promptly ate me. Or so I thought…
About thirty minutes later, my surroundings cracked and shattered, and I realised that I had been enclosed inside some kind of egg. I turned to mutter some gratitude for the ‘transport’ but ‘Yoshi’ had already jumped away, twice, with some sort of flutter and odd noise in mid-air. I picked myself up lazily, and dusted off the shell that remained on my clothes. When I pulled myself together, pinched my arm a few times, and managed to stand without my legs buckling, I eventually had a look at my surroundings.
The ‘city’ was a blast of vibrant colours and imagination. It was like being in a dream world, everything seemed so fun and enjoyable. The houses were toadstools, and the roads had boxes with ‘?’ written on them, hovering just above the ground. No space seemed unaccounted for, and there was a mammoth amount of things to see and do.
To my left, there was Donkey Kong and Link, having what seemed like a hardcore match on Samus’ home planet, Brinstar. A group of people that looked like toadstools themselves stood a safe distance away, chanting ‘Go Link!’ or ‘Donkey Kong!’ when something happened. All of a sudden, Peach and Bowser zoomed past me, smashing into those question mark boxes. Three red shells materialised around Bowser, and after a stern look at Peach, who saw the shells and ran crying to Toad, he took the lead. On my right, James Bond and Joanna Dark were having a shoot out, with a number of scared scientists mixed up in the action. After a gruesome battle, it looked like Ms Dark was going to win, until 007 managed to somehow open a mechanical door with his mind and run to safety.
Exasperated, I sank to the floor, trying to take all this in at once, but I was suddenly brought back to reality when I was jumped on by a portly man in a red T-shirt and dungarees:
“It’s-a me! Mario!”
Dusting myself off, I stood up and looked at the grinning plumber. He was a good two feet shorter than me, and every so often would do a back-flip accompanied by a “Woo-hoo!”. I finally managed to ask him about this strange and wonderful world I was in. He gestured to a large monumental statue of Shigeru Miyamoto, their God, and told me that was where ‘brothers’ were born. Another interesting thing was that lives could be automatically bought for one hundred coins, and that various portals could take you to various worlds such as The Mushroom Kingdom, Hyrule or, as Conker so gracefully put it – “The high life”. This one had an ‘18’ certificate hovering next to it…
On hearing the word portal, however, I started to get excited. Perhaps this was the way back home? Without hesitation, I asked Mr. Mario Mario about this, only to find that the way back was across a series of high jumps, fire breathing dragons, gorillas and.. er.. X-Boxes. Turning around, I shook my head and said it was impossible.
“For Shigsy’s sake-a! Have you not-a been listening? Just collect one hundred coins for extra life-a!”
And so, feeling like an idiot, I quickly ran into every gold coin around me. At what must have been one hundred, I threw up a large green ‘1-Up!’ and it floated away. I staggered around, choking and spluttering for a while, before standing up and looking at Mario.
Laughing, he suddenly lunged forward and pushed me off the cliff, to whatever oblivion lay below. I was so shocked and taken aback, instead of crying out in fear, pain and anger, I turned to the ‘screen’, shrugged, grinned and fell to my death.. At least, that’s what I thought…
I hit hard, uneven ground, and felt air rushing quickly into and around me. It was after but a few seconds that I realised everything had started over, and I was back on the meteorite speeding through that physics defying space. Without a second thought, I turned and jumped into the portal from whence I came, just as it closed up.
“So,” said Mr Miyamoto “did you have fun?”.
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