Geek on Stun

Nintendo Land 2: Six Golden Cartridges

We got ourselves out of bed at the ungodly hour of 5 A.M. yesterday to speed our way to the closest Nintendo World Store, something we thought we'd never do again. Only this time, it was TOTALLY WORTH IT!

We'll skip all the EXTREMELY BORING travel details and just get to the stuff every other respectable video game site already posted last night. However, we'll put our own "spin" on it by mocking others so that we'll feel better about ourselves!

First we did this BRILLIANT parallel parking job with our girlfriend's Honda!

We ought to start up a Web site that instructs everyone how to do this to PERFECTION.

Then we walked past the fragrant line of thousands that every other site has pictures of. What the hell? Here's another digital photo of the unshowered Gamecube owning populace!

We got to the front of the queue and saw one of our favorite Nintendo PR folks! Here's us thinking "Please don't ask what site we 'work' for". But she did and we said "Joystiq". Sorry! WE PANICKED!!

While waiting for what we assumed was going to be the punchline to our initial invite, daring photojournalist JrHawk snapped this awkward pic of a stunned Reggie Fils-Aime.

We cought up with frequent collaborator Amigarad who showed us his dual DS wielding technique. He's actually managing TWO virtual puppies simultaneously, hence the sweatband.

This guy was there again! And he brought his cap again! And everyone loved it AGAIN!

And this kid was there! He really thought this was a good idea!

By this point, the anticipation was KILLING US.

We were finally let into the building with the regular journalists and shown to our area. Then we were allowed to take pictures of Shigeru Miyamoto writing on peoples possessions.

Please note the King of Games t-shirt! We were really excited to see that and could barely restrain ourselves from pointing it out to everyone that dared speak with us. In fact, during our five minute session with Reggie, we only talked about t-shirts!

He was soon whisked away by PR folks to the decontamination room.

This is the security guard from the Nintendo World Store keeping order and pysically intimidating kids who weighed less than their backpacks. Regrettably, we don't have a detail shot of the skull and crossbones ring that we assume was forged from the fillings of previous combatants.

Our man with the camera DID however manage to capture this gentleman with the Super Mario Bros. Zubaz. He just radiated comfort!

Then the camera battery died and we missed a ton of really good stuff. Then some girl from the New York Post started asking us questions and making us nervous. The day was close to being RUINED.

Then Miyamoto signed our Nintendo DS and shook our sopping wet hand and took a picture with us and everything was magically better!

Thank you Nintendo World Store! ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

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