NOTE: This article is from the oprainfall Campaign Hub, written by an independent campaign, and hosted on the oprainfall website. The opinions herein may not represent the opinions of oprainfall.
Recently, Nintendo of America toured around the US with its annual Nintendo mall experience entitled Play Nintendo Tour. The general public were able to participate in playing 3DS games, trying out the 2DS and getting a chance to enter a Mario Kart 8 tournament and win Nintendo prizes. As you know, we at Operation Power Up participated in the festivities as well!
Our objectives were simple:
1. Play Nintendo Games.
2. Promote Operation: Power Up.
3. Obtain free Nintendo Swag.
4. Try not to be noticed. (By dressing up as Nintendo characters again.)
We attended the Houston Galleria location of the tour. The event itself was quite massive and had a large focus on the 2DS! They had the following games available for free play, and each game had it’s own booth:
There was so much to do at the Play Nintendo Tour. Participants were able to take pictures with costumed Nintendo characters.
People could also win free Nintendo prizes (such as plushes or PokéBalls) by answering Nintendo trivia to obtain “badges” which allows them a chance at the Nintendo claw machine.
Some of the questions included:
What was Mario’s name before he was called Mario?
How many Pokémon are there?
Which game has Mario, Donkey Kong, and Link appear on the same screen (that’s not Smash Bros.)?
Who is the Princess of Hyrule?
(These questions were pretty easy, thanks Nintendo Power and 20+ years of gaming!)
There was also a Mario Kart 8 tournament that was taking place at the event. To qualify, you had to obtain the best time in Mario Kart 7’s Toad Circuit. After that, you’ll play Mario Kart 8 against 4 other players, the best 2 players move on to the final round. The final round had players competing for first place on the big screen! Winners received posters and first place winners received a certificate!
Fortunately for us, near the end of the tour, we were able to play Super Smash Bros. for 3DS!
During the event, we were informing Nintendo fans of our campaign, which people were enthusiastically interested in. Even some of the people who worked at the Play Nintendo Tour were interested and supported our campaign. People began sharing their fond memories of Nintendo Power with my group and I.
Overall the event was fun, and we managed to gain support for out campaign.
Now we’ll leave you with cosplay photo shenanigans featuring some of the Operation: Power Up team, and local cosplayers in the area.
As a bonus, the people at the Play Nintendo Tour let us race against each other on the big screen!
With Pure Nintendo, Nintendo Force and Official Nintendo Magazine, there’s no doubt that gamers still want a Nintendo dedicated publication, and we hope that Nintendo of America will lend their support to Pure Nintendo or Nintendo Force so they can officially bring back the power.
See you next mission!
Our Nintendo Network ID: OperationPowerUp
Our Miiverse page: Here.
Our Facebook group: Here.
Our Twitter: Here.
Our petition: Here.
