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How the Nintendo Amusement Park Works

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-mushrooms-before-the-ride dept.

Tito! S. writes "HowStuffWorks has up an article describing how the Nintendo Amusement Park works. This is the New York city area theme park in the making with a physically augmented ride themed around Super Mario Bros. They plan to make the side-scrolling course 100 meters long with a safe and fully interactive course with foam crash padding platforms powered by hydraulic actuators." From the article: "It's really a single 'ride' — a real-life interactive adventure that allows players to dress up as Mario or Luigi, enter the Mushroom Kingdom and perform the actions that the heroes perform in the video game. Players can jump over obstacles, land on and ride moving platforms, and smash enemies. They can even collect gold coins and punch power-up boxes."

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  1. Wii Graphics by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 4, Funny

    See? Wii graphics will be just fine. If that wasn't the most realisticly rendered white sheet hanging in the background, I don't know what is.

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  2. My sig comes true by Dorceon · · Score: 3, Funny
    How park works:
    1. Get on ride
    2. Go 'Wiiiiiiiiiiiii!'
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  3. Avoid the mushrooms by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    While useful in the game, I'd avoid eating the mushrooms at this theme park.

    1. Re:Avoid the mushrooms by the.Ceph · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let's be honest, there is no way I'm going to dress up like Mario, jump over obstacles, and try to collect gold coins if I don't eat the mushrooms.

    2. Re:Avoid the mushrooms by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 3, Funny

      Let's be honest, there is no way I'm going to slap on a colorform mustache that's been on the upper lip of a dozen other New Yorkers that morning

      Fixed.

  4. Little known fact: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The very first version of the Matrix, the human participants entered willingly.

  5. Will Princess Toadstool . . . by ThiagoHP · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . . bake a cake for me if I succesfully finish the course?

    1. Re:Will Princess Toadstool . . . by FhnuZoag · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm afraid she's in another castle.

  6. Mario Souvenirs by Skevin · · Score: 2, Funny

    When you leave the park, do you get a white bouncy star... to remind you to get a life?

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    1. Re:Mario Souvenirs by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 5, Funny
      When you leave the park, do you get a white bouncy star... to remind you to get a life?
      Duh. It's the green mushrooms that give you a life.
  7. Re:That was stupid by grapeape · · Score: 3, Funny

    This guy does it much better:

    http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/mariolive