Nintendo Roll Out Mario Kart

Nintendo Roll Out Mario Kart
at London Games Week

Distributed by
Nintendo

Posted: August 9th, 2003.

The time of year is approaching when all the movers and shakers of theEuropean gaming world head to London to see the latest that the world ofgaming has to offer. This year for the first time ECTS forms part of thenewly created London Games Week, a packed schedule of gaming events takingplace in the last week of August. As part of London Games Week the ECTS showis coming to Earls Court, London on 27th to 29th August and Nintendo will bethere.

Nintendo will be showing off the most up to date versions of forthcomingtitles for the NINTENDO GAMECUBE and Game Boy Advance with a newly liveried40 tonne articulated truck packed with consoles & games. The truck will besituated directly outside the entrance to ECTS on the Brompton Road side ofEarl¹s Court for the duration of the show. Forty consoles within thevehicle¹s extended trailer will play host to some of the incredible gamescoming from Nintendo as well as a number of the great titles on their wayfrom Nintendo¹s third party developers.

In a real scoop for London Games Week a specially updated version of MarioKart: Double Dash will be there to play for the first time ever. The truckwill also contain brand new versions of the latest Game Boy Advance gamesplayable through the NINTENDO GAMECUBE via the Game Boy Player.

Among the other games on show from Nintendo will be:

For the NINTENDO GAMECUBE

• 1080 Avalanche
• F-Zero GX
• Pikmin 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
• Pacman
• Pokémon Box
• Soul Calibur II

For the Game Boy Advance

• Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Mario & Luigi
• Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire
• Super Mario Bros.3: Super Mario Advance 4

These will also be joined by other first class titles by 3rd partypublishers for the NINTENDO GAMECUBE and the Game Boy Advance.

Connectivity between the Game Boy Advance and NINTENDO GAMECUBE will bedemonstrated to great effect using a number of titles including Nintendo¹sown The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords. Visitors will also be able to gettheir hands on the newest addition to Nintendo¹s range of hardware, thesleek Game Boy Advance SP, which will be demonstrated with a selection ofthe great new titles forthcoming on Game Boy Advance.

London Games Week runs from Monday 25 through until Sunday 31 August 2003.The Nintendo truck will be outside the entrance to ECTS on Brompton Roadfrom Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th August, open from 9am until 7pm Wednesday& Thursday and 9am until 4pm Friday.

Click ontoNintendo Europe.comfor all of the most up to date official information on Nintendo.

News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2003.

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