Nintendo World & Christmas Tree

On a cold winter evening in December, Anne and I decided to take in a movie. While waiting for the show to start, Anne (I’ll get an angry phone call when she sees this picture) remember she wanted to buy some earrings from Bryant Park, which was also cold.

Afterwards, with still over an hour to kill, and cold wind breezing by our heads, we decided to be tourists and hit Rockefeller Center and the giant Christmas tree. Nintendo World (I don’t know why I didn’t take pictures!!!) was just a bonus.

Nintendo World was two floors or Nintendo. It has been recently converted from Pokemon World, since the Pokemon craze is finally starting to die down. On the bottom floor there were a wide variety of Nintendo DSs displaying various new titles. I gave Mario Kart DS a spin and was surprised at how good it looked on the screen and played. I hear Sonic Rush and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow are both excellent as well (not a hint). The top floor, very warm, had the Gamecube setup showing the latest and best titles. An oldie but goodie being: the Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker, which looks incredible, even two years later. Resident Evil 4 also looks great. Also included was a mini Nintendo museum containing every system Nintendo ever made, a prototype FAMICOM (NES here in the states) never released, an original Gameboy damaged in the first Gulf War, but still working and an autographed DS, done so by no other than Shigeru Miyamoto.

The Christmas tree, that seems to be one of the few things Japanese people know about NYC, stands between 75-90 feet tall, in the cold air, and contains something like 5 miles of lights. For those who are interested you can read about the tree, it’s history, Rockefeller themselves and even see the tree cam at those sites.

It’s still cold.


Wisdom of the Day: Two words: gloves and socks.