NIPPON-ICHIGO

I’m probably slow in finding this, but this amusing Japanese website meshes Katamari Damacy style with Nintendo Wii’s Mii Parade aesthetic to make a Twitter toy that amuses me perhaps too much!

It makes your Twitter feel special!

I’ve already done this like 8 times.

By the way, I’m on Twitter a lot. If you are, too, you could follow my main account (on which there are many artistic/design ramblings) or the one for this blog (which is similar, but also a feed for posts here).

You should know, I’m on a real Mario kick right now. With the recent release of Super Mario Galaxy 2, not to mention E3 with all the other great returning classic platform heroes, I just want to play video games all day. But such desires of the id are played down and subdued, only to be lived out in my fantasies while I watch video game related media at work.

(Nah, I’m working, honestly… with a little peep here and there.)

So anyway, I got a real kick out of this.

Teppei Okada has the right idea. If I could even remotely play violin, this is exactly what I’d do, too.

While I’m at it, here are a few more Mario videos I’m liking the hell out of. SPOILERS: Mario dies at the end of all these videos. (Why are we all so cruel to him? But I enjoyed long-jumping him into walls in 64, if only to hear that goofy “d’oh, oooof…”)

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Remember that wacky Wii game full of fun and muscles that popped up earlier this year? Well, my dreams have come true: it’s coming to the US’s WiiWare next year.

Here, have some English trailer:

I actually like this more than the original trailer: it retains the wacky spirit while being more self-explanatory.

I love fun, nonsensical stuff like this, so you can bet I’m buying the hell out of it.

Go to its official site

There are no words to describe this.

However, for a Wiiware game, I love the concept. It’s fun and silly. It’s like Hole in the Wall, which would probably be even more interesting as a video game franchise.

If you needed another reason to visit Osaka, well then… here it is.

Is everyone in on the idea? Awesome.

I imagine that in America people would either stare at you, ask you what the hell you’re doing, or ignore you. Or sue you for assault. BANG.

(I found this link through Sister Claire, hee.)