Universal City Walk, Ca.
Nintendo finally released the third revision of their DS handheld system, the DSi. What better way to release the product than with a midnight launch. Gamestop with help from Nintendo had a big launch party at Universal City Walk in So Cal. The one and only ajTwist (me) got a chance to check out the fun festivities. I got there kind of late but I felt like I didn’t miss a thing. Many websites announced the launch party but it really didn’t interest me until I heard about all the awesome SWAG Nintendo was giving away from the lovely Jessica V. (from All Games Interactive) via Twitter. AND JES was there doing some Nintendo Ambassadoring so I had to go to say hello! As the day went on I got kind of lazy and almost didn’t go until I saw another Twitter post from PennyMan aka Coin-Op Rob of Coin-Op.Tv saying Gym Class Heroes were performing. I was like WHOA, I gotta check this out for sure now. So I took off and got there around 9:45 PM, close to 2 hours before the Official Release of the DSi.
The area looked crazy. A big sphere in the middle with projections of random animation, mostly Nintendo themed pictures. DJ’s scratching and mix old school Super Mario Bros Music. Light Up Pillars with a DSi Demo on all 4 sides. And Nintendo Ambassadors wearing sky blue Nintendo shirts showing people how to use the built in features of the DSi and giving away SWAG. What kind of Swag you ask?
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