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."

Comments

Wii Graphics

[Anonymous Custard]

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.

My sig comes true

[Dorceon]

How park works:

1. Get on ride
2. Go 'Wiiiiiiiiiiiii!'

Avoid the mushrooms

[LoverOfJoy]

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

Re:Avoid the mushrooms

[voice_of_all_reason]

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.

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.

Will Princess Toadstool . . .

[ThiagoHP]

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

Re:Will Princess Toadstool . . .

[FhnuZoag]

I'm afraid she's in another castle.

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.

Re:That was stupid

[grapeape]

This guy does it much better:

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

Re:Mario Souvenirs

[LoverOfJoy]

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.

Re:I wonder how popular it will be?

[cooley]

Just in the interest of clarity for any thread-reading friends around the world outside of the USA, "Yellowstone National Park" is not a theme park or an amusement park. All the "National Park"s are nature preserves. Yellowstone is known not for amusement, but for unique geology, thermal vents, and wildlife.

Also in the interest of safety, do not try to feed the bears. They've all eaten the red mushroom and found the flower already. Bears with fireballs SUCK.