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Editorials   Nintendo World Store
- By Lander Clinton

This weekend my friends and I were in New York, so we checked out the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Plaza.

The store is ultra sleek and modern, but this is Nintendo, you want to play the games, not look at the store!

The first thing I did was sit down at the DS circle and played Nintendogs. I'm not sure what to think of that game. I like everything except that it doesn't go online. Your dog's data can be sent to a DS that's near you, but I haven't read anything about trading online. Maybe it will be in a sequel. A store setting isn't a good place to play Nintendogs though, from what I hear you need a few days to get your dog to like you.

For some reason, the DSs in the store weren't all linked up. My DS had three dogs on it, and I expected to look at the DS next to me and see the same three dogs, but they were different.

Behind the DS circle was a GameBoy bar where one could ask to play nearly any GB game ever made. I didn't try it out since I've already played them all...

Upstairs was a GameCube area, a merchandise area, and a cool display case with past Nintendo products. The GameCube area had a roped-off section with egg-shaped chairs to let people play without being disturbed by the sights and sounds around them. You get in the egg and it has surround sound and force feedback connected to the game.

I tried Geist. I think I'll pick it up when it comes down in price. I like the game, but I had a hard time aiming with the C-stick. Luckily I could get shot about 50 times and still be okay. There was a guy machine gunning me right behind me and my health was only slowly going down. Oh well, I'm the star of the game, I couldn't die in the beginning...

The merchandise area had a bunch of Nintendo shirts and toys, including those Mario Kart action figures they were giving out at E3 if you won the race in Mario Kart DS. They had a cool Triforce shirt with the Japanese Kanji for Courage, Wisdom, and Power on the triangles.

The display case had, among other things, the evolution of the GameBoy, from original to GBA SP, including the GameBoy Light, a system released in Japan that was lighter and back lit (get it? Light?) but not yet in color.

There was also a GameBoy that had survived being bombed in the first Gulf War and still works today. I remember reading about that in Nintendo Power after it happened. They also had a golden Triforce GBA SP signed by Miyamoto, with a sign next to it saying "Sold Out."

The Nintendo AVS was also there. AVS stands for Advanced Video System and was a prototype of the NES. It was shown only once at a trade show in Las Vegas. The system itself looked like an NES but shaped like a tape recorder. It even had Rewind, Fast Forward, Stop, Pause, and Play buttons on it. Some of its accessories were a keyboard and wireless controllers that looked somewhat like NES controllers.

They also had a Famicom, the Japanese NES, and ROB the Robot, an NES accessory that would hit random buttons on the second controller for all you friend-less wonders.

I wouldn't advise making a special trip to New York just to see the store, but if you're going to be there anyway it's a cool place to stop. Also, you can go and bitch about Zelda being delayed. I'm sure it's their fault.


Note: All pictures taken by Lee Rosenfeldt, who also designed the store and built it using coconuts.