Wii Launch T-Shirt Countdown, One Day To Go!
Saturday / 11.18.06 / 01:16PM / Joe
To celebrate the launch of the Wii this Sunday, I am spending the week wearing a different Nintendo t-shirt each day... and presenting a new Nintendo "innovation" from the Era of the GameCube.
T-minus ONE
This super-rare* t-shirt was the grand prize for winning Camp Hyrule's points competition in 2005. Cabin 9 - the best cabin - routed all comers and we all received this shirt in the mail. In 2006, Nintendo hilariously did not give out any t-shirts.
The front shows Stumpy, the non-sequiter mascot of Camp Hyrule. You have to be an insider to know that, so I give some credit to Nintendo for printing such an unexplainably random image. Any questions about the horse/cow thing can be answered with a quick turn to the back, bitch. CABIN 9 FTW!
*I'm assuming it's super-rare. The Nintendo Store in NYC could use these as janitorial rags for all I know.
Today's GameCubeian innovation: the DK Bongos. Now, weird controllers have been around since the dawn of video games. What makes the bongos innovative is that Nintendo bothered to find a non-rhythm game use for them. Namely, Jungle Beat. (And Bongo Blast, if that doesn't end up as vaporware.) Jungle Beat's use of non-standard controls for a standard game is more or less a dry run for the Wii.
Since today's t-shirt was so awesome, you get a crappy innovation. See you all tomorrow. | 
