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Burger King Nintendo Kids Meal Toys Are In!

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Burger King Nintendo toys

Burger King Nintendo toys

Thanks to a comment tip on my earlier Burger King Nintendo Kids Meal post, I headed out to BK tonight (Dec. 1) and snagged two Nintendo toys, part of a Wii promotion. I got Mario Kart Yoshi as well as my old pal, Donkey Kong (I used to make a quarter last for my mom’s entire grocery shopping trip back in the mid-’80s.) I didn’t actually want a kids’ meal so I paid $1.49 per toy. Actually, I think they undercharged me; your mileage may vary. The other toys (several with Nintendo DS game connections) in the series are: Whirl ‘n Twirl Princess Peach, Float and Go Boo, Chain Chomp Launcher, Rumbling Tumbling Donkey Kong, Mario to the Rescue, Light-Up Luma, Galaxy Blast Mario and Metroid Challenge. (The Donkey Kong toy pictured is Flip and Stick Donkey Kong.) The toys come with coupons for selected Wii games.

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Nintendo Mall Spa Menu

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

The Nintendo “spa” in various U.S. malls is proving popular, and I wonder if they’ll extend the promotion beyond the Dec. 8 scheduled end date. When you show up, you get to choose from a “spa menu.” The selection is cool and cute: “Brain Awake” includes a neck massage while enjoying Brain Age 2 or Crosswords DS. “Private Eye” is an upper-back massage enjoyed with Mystery Case Files: Millionheir. “Puppy Love” involves Nintendogs and a neck and back massage. “Blast From the Past” includes a lower back massage while playing New Super Mario Bros. Or, try “Fast Pursuit” while playing Mario Kart DS during your massage. The experience is free. The catch is that it’s only going on at the following malls: Bridgewater Commons in Bridgewater, N.J.; Westfield Topanga in Canoga Park, Calif.; Stonebriar Centre in Frisco, Texas; Westfield Valley Fair in San Jose, Calif.; Natick Collection in Natick, Mass.; and Lenox Square in Atlanta.

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Burger King Nintendo toys in Kids Meal

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Burger King

Burger King

An ad in the holiday issue of the magazine Nintendo Power includes a two-page advertisement for Nintendo themed toys in the Burger King kids’ meal. Sweet! I called my local Burger King and they acted like I was crazy, and Burger King’s Club BK web site only has Simpsons, but multiple sources say the Nintendo promotion is a go. There’s Yoshi, Donkey Kong, the yellow star from Mario and other toys. I scanned in the ad, at left.

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Nintendo Launches Online Talking Mario Wishlist

Monday, November 24th, 2008

My kid and I had fun setting up and sending a voice Nintendo DS wishlist, despite some glitches. A new Nintendo site, http://mariowishlist.varitalk.com, lets you choose a console and three games you’re hoping for as well as fill in various other details. Then, Mario will either call or email the hopefully willing recipient of the wishlist, who gets to hear the message in Mario’s cringe-worthy “Italian accent.”

There were a few bugs, though. For example, while “Mario” was able to speak my son’s slightly uncommon name, he said he couldn’t pronounce “Mom,” which was one of the choices on the drop-down menu. Still, cute idea.

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Personal Trainer: Cooking site is up

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Personal Trainer: Cooking Web site

Personal Trainer: Cooking Web site

If you’re not sure whether you want to add Personal Trainer: Cooking to your holiday wishlist or gift-giving list, the new Web site for the software may help you decide. The latest in Nintendo’s Touch Generations genre of DS “games” is now online at www.personaltrainercooking.com. The site is quite detailed, and demonstrates the hands-free voice control (so you don’t get your DS all food-y) as well as other features. There’s a walkthrough and demos of people actually using the “game” while cooking. Actress Lisa Kudrow is on the site, too, cooking kung pao chicken with her niece.

If you preorder Personal Trainer: Cooking on Amazon by Nov. 23, you get $10 off a future video game purchase at Amazon. I ordered it. I’m not a great cook and I only have luck using recipe books for baking, so maybe techonology will work for me. The serving size recalculations and the ingredient shopping list and cost calculator feature are especially intriguing. It even times the meal as it cooks. I hope the voice control works better than automated phone systems, because I don’t want to be hollering, “Continue!,” “Repeat!” and “Last Step!” in my kitchen.

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Personal Trainer: Cooking is subject of Pasadena shopping event

Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Personal Trainer: Cooking

Personal Trainer: Cooking

Personal Trainer: Cooking is sure to be a hit for gift-giving this holiday season. It’s part of Nintendo’s “Touch Generations” series for the DS, and is targeted toward the beginning home cook as well as anyone who wants to learn international recipes. The game is set to be released Nov. 24, and if you preorder it on Amazon.com by Nov. 23, you can get $10 off a future video game purchase. That essentially makes the $19.99 game $9.99!

Nintendo is ramping up the marketing for Personal Trainer: Cooking, and has invited the media as well as the general public to a supermarket spree and cook-off competition in Pasadena, California on Nov. 20.

The event takes place at Whole Foods Market at 465 S. Arroyo Parkway at 10:30 a.m. There, according to a press release, contestants will “scour the grocery shelves” looking for the ingredients to prepare one of the more than 245 recipes included on the Nintendo DS game. Then, the two fastest contestants will be in a cook-off! It’s hosted by David Ruprecht of the Supermarket Sweep game show.

Personal Trainer: Cooking features cooking demo videos and responds to voice commands as users are coached through recipes.

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