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Nintendo Gaming / Wii Demo Locations

« on: November 11, 2006, 07:40:28 AM »

I know there a lots more locations, please either PM me or replay with your location. I saw a lot of people wrote that they played it, well, share the love with a location!!

Just tell me store name (even though it seems 100% Gamestop)
Location (as in which mall, plaza, etc) city and state.

I know on Gamestop's website they have a list of malls that are supposed to get it by Nov 15th, if you're in the area be sure to check them out and see if they're up yet Gamestop Wii Tour

Thanks all, and yes you're welcome for taking the time to put together this list for everyone


Alabama:

Alaska:

Arizona:

California:
Gamestop El Cerrito Plaza
El Cerrito

Colorado:

Connecticut:

Delaware:

District of Columbia:

Florida:

Georgia:

Hawaii:

Idaho:

Illinois:
Gamestop at Golf Mill Mall
Niles


Indiana:

Iowa:

Kansas:

Kentucky:

Louisiana:

Maine:

Maryland:

Massachusetts:

Michigan:

Minnesota:

Mississippi:

Missouri:

Montana:

Nebraska:

Nevada:

New Hampshire:

New Jersey:

New Mexico:

New York:

North Carolina:

North Dakota:

Ohio:
GameStop Ridgepark Square
Brookpark

Oklahoma:

Oregon:

Pennsylvania:

Gamestop at Broad and Hunting Park
Philadelphia

Rhode Island:

South Carolina:

South Dakota:

Tennessee:

Texas:

Utah:

Vermont:

Virginia:

Washington:

West Virginia:

Wisconsin:

Wyoming:
 

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:The Official "I've played ExciteTruck at GameStop" thread

« on: November 10, 2006, 07:27:06 PM »

This just in, If you live in the Bay Area the Game Stop in the El Cerrito Plaza has a Wii demo! It's right off the BART train, too! I'll write more about it tomorrow.

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Nintendo Gaming / Wii Sports sold separate???

« on: November 10, 2006, 02:56:53 PM »

WHY?

Game Stop: Buy Wii Sports

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:The Official "I've played ExciteTruck at GameStop" thread

« on: November 10, 2006, 02:55:44 PM »

Can we maybe have a list of locations that have it, I live in Oakland, CA and I've checked different Best Buys, Game Stops and EB games all over the place including San Francisco, still haven't found one yet.

I'm heading out to a different city tonight (El Cerrito, if you really care) and I know they have a GS there, maybe I'll stop by and check it out. sigh

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General Gaming / RE:Sony getting hit Hard lately

« on: October 20, 2006, 08:24:34 AM »

Funny how on the fact sheets they always fail to mention the fact that some Blu-ray titles will not play on a PS3. If you navigate their website you'll find it.

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Blu-ray discs and other media may not operate properly when played on the PS3 system. This is primarily due to variations in the manufacturing process or encoding of the software.

Wonder if the HD-DVD add on for XBox 360 is gonna have the same problem?

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Nintendo Gaming / WeeMee??

« on: October 14, 2006, 08:49:32 AM »

AIM WeeMee

WTF??

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wii Pre-Orders & Bundles

« on: October 12, 2006, 08:11:43 AM »

Gamestop and EB starts tomorrow! Juts got the official e-mail.

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Gamestop and EB Games stores will being accepting limited pre-orders for the Nintendo Wii console on Friday, October 13, on a first come first served basis. Due to extremely limited supply, we expect to reach our limit very quickly, most likely in minutes. We will not accept additional pre-orders at that time. To avoid an unnecessary trip we strongly reccomend you call your local store to determine availabilty. A $50 reservation deposit is required, which can be funded with cash, credit or trade. As we cannot control production and shipping issues by the manufacturer, a reservation deposit does not guarantee receipt of a system available to purchase at launch. Reservation/Purchases are limited to 1 per household.

So $50 reserves one for you, most likely they are gonna play it safe and only do a small amount of pre-orders (like amazon did) which is why they say "extremely limited supply" and I wouldn't worry to much about the "does not guarantee receipt of a system available to purchase at launch" I'm pretty sure they are just putting that there to cover their butts.

Also some little extra's in the e-mail.

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Trade in 3 Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, PSP, or Nintendo DS games and get an extra $10 trade credit

and

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Trade any games towards the purchase of a Nintendo Wii console or Legend of Zelda: Twighlight Princess (Wii) and recieve an extra 20% trade credit

Both offers expire on October 15 and cannot be combined.....well just trade in the 3 games today and do the extra 20% tomorrow.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Toys R Us to give away 25,000 Wiis

« on: October 10, 2006, 10:12:05 AM »

Rules

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5.Eligibility: Open to legal residents of the continental U.S

So there ya go.

Wandering...sorry

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To play, bring the game piece to a participating Toys"R"Us store in the United States between 10/01/06 - 10/28/06

So ya gotta use it by the Oct 28th.

CouchMonkey, ya don't have to go on the show, you just get tickets to watch it.

Here's the other prizes
2nd Prize (25,000): Nintendo Wii $249.99 each. Odds of winning: 1:5,743.
3rd Prize (25,000): Schwinn Bike. ARV $199.99 each. Odds of winning: 1:5,743.
4th Prize (25,000): Nintendo DS Lites. ARV: $129.99 each. Odds of winning: 1: 5,743.
5th Prize (25,000): Sony MP3 Player, ARV: $99.99 each. Odds of winning 1:5,743.
6th Prize (25,000): LeapFrog Explorer Globe, ARV: $89.99 each. Odds of winning: 1:5,743

So you're odds are just as good to win a Wii as it is a Leapfrog thingy. Not to bad. And you have to think those odds are based on how many they send out, not everyone will actually use it. I personaly think I'll be raiding the neighborhood newspaper stands, taking the Toys R Us ad out of every paper I find...heeheehee.

The only downfall is you have to buy something to find out if you're a winner, or

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To see if your "NO DEAL" game piece is a winner without a purchase, send an SASE to: "Deal or No Deal NP," c/o Little & King Co., LLC, 31 Merrick Ave., Suite 150, Merrick, NY 11566, no later than 10/22/06. Winners will be confirmed by mail on or about 11/24/06.

But forget all that. I'll take my suitcase in, buy some gum and either win something or get 5% of my gum.  

[Nintendo Wii game consoles will be awarded to 25,000 entrants]

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Nintendo Gaming / Toys R Us to give away 25,000 Wii's

« on: October 10, 2006, 08:09:00 AM »

Deal or No Deal

Keep a look out in the mail or newspaper for this!

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Weekly circulars from Oct. 1 to Oct. 28 carry two cut-out game pieces -- shaped like the suitcases used on the program -- that shoppers bring to stores. There, they can turn in either the "Deal" game piece, which awards 10% off one item, or the "No Deal" piece that provides entry into the game. Shoppers opting for "No Deal" have their suitcase scanned to see if they've won a prize or a 5% discount on one item. They can play each week after receiving new game pieces.

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The promotion dangles a grand-prize $1 million and a trip to Los Angeles to attend the show. Nintendo Wii game consoles will be awarded to 25,000 entrants.

 

[jasonditz]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Pringles giving away Wii's!

« on: September 29, 2006, 06:13:45 AM »

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Originally posted by: jasonditz
Won't accept my phone number as real and authentic

Go to Private Phone you can set up a free phone number with an area code near you. I use this for anything I sign up for or any stores that ask for my phone number, it's totally free and you avoid those telemarketers!

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Nintendo Gaming / Pringles giving away Wii's!

« on: September 28, 2006, 03:18:52 PM »

Don't know why I'm sharing this info...my chances to win are gonna go down, but maybe Karma will make up for it.

Pringles

They're giving away 100 Wiis, so if you win one you can thank me.....and give it to me

EDIT: Happy Jon?

[JonLeung]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Mii and Wario

« on: September 26, 2006, 09:19:27 AM »

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Originally posted by: JonLeung
I thought this was already mentioned, actually.  I'm assuming you mean WarioWare: Smooth Moves.

It would make sense that several Nintendo-developed games (and perhaps some third-party Wii games) would make use of the Miis for them to dedicate a WiiChannel for them.  (I imagine they may be useable in Animal Crossing for the Wii, and other games that may use totally different styles could at least use Mii data to come up with an approximation that fits its style.)

Yeah, I meant Smooth Moves. I couldn't find a posting about it anywhere, but that press site has some other interesting info I might have missed before. Like being able to use the ship in MP3

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Nintendo Gaming / Mii and Wario

« on: September 26, 2006, 08:55:35 AM »

I didn't see it listed anywhere and never saw an announcement about it, but I found a document saying

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This Title features apperance by players' Miis

Fricking Awesome!!

I can send you the link to it, but it's at nintendo's press kit which you "need" a password to look at, I have all the documents on there, if ya want them PM me. I'm sure most of it is known to everyone already though

Press Kit

[nitsu niflheim]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wii Calculator - how much will you spend?

« on: September 21, 2006, 10:31:49 AM »

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Originally posted by: nitsu niflheim
I will pay what I need to pay.  I have over 6000.00 I can readily get my hands on. =D (though I will probably only buy a system, extra controller set, Zelda, and maybe Rayman and another game) Unless I get a bundle then I will pay whatever it takes to get Wii-ed.

You can get everything on that list for around $1900 (depending on your tax)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wii Pre-Orders & Bundles

« on: September 19, 2006, 01:34:12 PM »

DOAH!!! I found a place that was taking pre-orders for the Wii, no bundle and a cheaper price....$248 (ok, a dollar cheaper) Although I wasn't too sure about this,  I tried e-mailing them today, waited a few hours, then got impaitent and called. Turns out there orders were more than they thought they were gonna get and stopped the presale about 2 hours before I called. They will continue the presale once they know how many they are going to get. Sucks for me, I had to go to the bank to try and get a check cleared, so I couldn't do it.

Atomic Park

They do have the classic controller on there which I haven't seen on others websites, and it's listed for $18.82, same price as the nunchuck is listed for.

They also told me that they would ship it out as soon as they got it, but they don't have any confirmed numbers yet.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Amazon out of pre-orders?

« on: September 19, 2006, 01:28:15 PM »

Amazon speaks out

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For a brief period on Friday, we did offer pre-orders for the Wii, however, the rate at which pre-orders came in dramatically outpaced what we had anticipated, so we suspended pre-orders until we are able to get a firmer commitment from Nintendo regarding how many units we'll have for sale.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Region free is back in!

« on: September 19, 2006, 10:32:39 AM »

Maybe the UK version will be Region locked, but the others won't? Everyone on the NOA side seems to be saying it's region free, but the UK folk seem to be saying something different. Who knows!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Not to start a rumor, but..

« on: September 18, 2006, 05:33:51 PM »

wow...way to be vague

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:That $250 price tag again...

« on: September 18, 2006, 08:14:17 AM »

They should have just said at E3. "It will cost less then $300" Or maybe something like "You'll be able to buy at least two of them for the price of a PS3" hahaha. Screw it, I'm ok with the price, I do wish they'd make a controller/nunchuk combo for $50, that's my only gripe

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Nintendo Gaming / Wii Channels....

« on: September 16, 2006, 06:12:02 PM »

What are the two channels that say "coming soon" on wii.com?

More surprises from Nintendo? Or did I miss something?  

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General Gaming / RE:Why I'm going to buy a PS3 on launch day.

« on: September 16, 2006, 05:46:06 PM »

I personally hate that idea. Yes I have thought of doing it in the past, but sometimes, when I try to go to a concert and the tickets are sold out and I try to find one, it's a 100% markup or more. I hate that!!

There are some people that want to own a PS3 at launch (who knows why) and yes they will pay a high price, but why do people have to take such advantage of them. I am a firm believer in what goes around comes around. If you have enough money to buy three PS3's good for you, some people only have enough to buy 1 with no games, so you are screwing them over.

The thought of selling a PS3 for a much higher price did cross my mind, but I won't do it. I just think it's wrong to do so, so I won't be taking a part in it. The thought of owning every launch game for the Wii, plus all controllers made off of my PS3 profit does sound real tempting, but I think it's just wrong.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Suprised no one is flipping out about this yet ...

« on: September 15, 2006, 11:51:28 AM »

I did notice in a Wario clip that the game asked if you were right handed or left handed. So that'll give you southpaws something to make ya happy

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wii Pre-Orders & Bundles

« on: September 15, 2006, 10:25:27 AM »

Kind of interesting that nobody is doing a pre-order for the system yet. I see games all over the place, and you think they all know the release date and price........if in fact that is the real price and release date..dun, dun, dun!!!!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wario Wii!!!

« on: September 15, 2006, 10:15:46 AM »

Can't wait for this game!!!

I was looking at IGN's website and they said "Number of Players: 1-5"...interesting.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:From Seattle Post-Intelligencer: $250 on Nov. 19

« on: September 14, 2006, 05:17:01 PM »

Aussie Nintendo

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Wii will makes its debut around the world in only the much-touted white variation, however, more colours are on the way. "Until Spring, we'll have a supply limitation, so we want to avoid the situation where people don't buy because their favorite color isn't available. We'll provide new colors after that. Our aim is a design that's not scary," said Miyamoto.

That's actually kinda smart and true.