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News   New Mario Party 4, 1080 2, and F-Zero Details!
- Posted By Eric Tajchman, 03.29.2002

More exciting news about some of our favorite video game series. Nintendo recently released another press release regarding Mario Party, and 1080 and F-Zero titles including a partnership with . . . SEGA to develop an arcade and GameCube version of F-Zero.

While you were sleeping, Nintendo Co. Ltd. released more information about 2002's most eagerly awaited video games, all available only on NINTENDO GAMECUBE(tm). Nintendo also announced joint development of new titles based on yet another of the company's unmatched stable of franchises and franchise characters.

· Super Mario Sunshine will be released in Japan on July 19, 2002, exclusively for NINTENDO GAMECUBE. Last week, Nintendo announced the title will hit North American shelves on August 26, 2002.

· Other eagerly anticipated NINTENDO GAMECUBE exclusives, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem(tm) and Star Fox® Adventures, debut in Japan this fall.

· The next installment in the wildly popular Mario Party® franchise will be released for NINTENDO GAMECUBE before the end of this year in Japan. Previous Mario Party titles topped best-seller lists in 2000 and 2001.

· In Japan, 1080° Snowboarding, another NINTENDO GAMECUBE exclusive, will debut this winter.

· Nintendo and SEGA® are teaming up to release two previously unannounced games based on the F-ZERO® franchise, using the next-generation 3D-CG Triforce arcade board and NINTENDO GAMECUBE. Amusement Vision is developing both titles under the supervision of Nintendo, with F-ZERO AC (working title) for the arcade published by SEGA and F-ZERO GC (working title) for NINTENDO GAMECUBE published by Nintendo. Both titles will be released in late 2002 and feature connectivity through the NINTENDO GAMECUBE Memory Card 59.

Mario Party would be a perfect game to launch Nintendo’s online plans. They have said that they don’t wish to launch their Online Support with just Phantasy Star Online, which is complete if you didn’t know, so creating Mario Party might be way to add a deeper library for Online. Let’s hope. SEGA’s development of a Nintendo franchise is also quite surprising, though the two companies have said that they would work together developing titles for Nintendo’s Triforce arcade board. I guess nobody knew the extent of their plans. This could even lead to bigger partnerships with SEGA for other arcade games and even more GameCube games.

Source: Planet Gamecube