Milia: Show and Nintendo-stand details
Posted 06 Feb 2002 at 16:42 by Gerben
Yesterday we brought you all the important news live from Milia, but we weren't able to give you any details on Nintendo's stand.
Below we show you what was there and what it looked like.
At the outside of the 'Palais des Festivals' (the place where Milia is held) there were two huge banners showing Nintendo's GameCube. Tose two people who didn't know yet that Nintendo was at Milia were informed as well by now.
At the outside of the building, on the other side of the glass where Nintendo's stand was, there was a very cool carpet showing the GameCube logo. They were also at Nintendo's stand. Damn, I wish I had one of those babies in my room.
The most important place of course was Nintendo's stand. 14 games were shown at a 250 square metres place. The games were: Rogue Leader, Luigi's Mansion, Sonic Adventure Battle 2, Pikmin, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Eternal Darkness, Batman Vengeance, Fifa 2002, International Superstar Soccer 2, Waverace: Blue Storm, XG3 Extreme Racing, NBA Courtisde 2002 and ESPN. Nintendo also showed a video of Star Fox Adventures.
One of the coolest things at the stand was a big screen (4 x 3 metres) at which you could play Rogue Leader. Watch the movie (below) to see that.
Of course, there were also promo babes in short skirts and tight GameCube shirts, handing out plastic GameCube bags that contained an 8 CM promo CD and a GameCube pin. If you asked for it, they'd also give you a GameCube pen. The guys who helped at the games were wearing some cool looking black blouses with a small GameCube logo on it. Unfortunately, they didn't want to give us one.
Have a look at this beauty! A turquoise GameCube! What made it even better, was that inside of it was the extremely cool Sonic, linked with the GBA link to GBA-Sonic!
You can understand that we didn't really get bored of all these goodies. The goodlooking promo babes made up for some missing titles, like Metroid or a playable Star Fox (and Tarzan and Donald Duck's Quack Attack, but that didn't really bother us). If you want to know what it feels like to be at Milia, download the movie below. It shows you the stand, the big Rogue Leader screen and a promo babe. It last 15 seconds, and sound is included.
Download the movie here (1.3 MB)