How the Nintendo Amusement Park Works

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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doesn't have nintendo backing

[yincrash]

nintendo has nothing to do with this. http://nintendoamusementpark.com/

How long is 100 m of side scrolling?

[tepples]

To give you an idea of how much action fits in 100 meters, read this: A lot of NES games are drawn in the same scale as Super Mario Bros. 2 with 16 pixels = one meter, assuming Luigi is 2 meters tall and Mario a bit shorter than that. The NES screen is 256 pixels wide, and the first level of the original Super Mario Bros. is about 10 screens long, or a bit longer than this 6.25-screen course.

Another nit: The white glove in the picture in the article is inaccurate, as the Mario Bros. and most other Japanese animated characters have five digits on each hand, not four like Mickey Mouse.

Legal departments start your engines..

[MrPerfekt]

Does the "We love your characters! It's an homage!" line usually work on legal departments of large companies? My bet is no.

They're developing a project with intentions of taking it commercial all the while using the Nintendo logo and name. I'm not fan of Intellectual Property. I think the concept stinks. I'm not faulting them for using Nintendo characters. But using the name and logo to me implies some affiliation which this page specifically says there isn't any. That's pretty flagrant.