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COVID emergency shuts Japan’s Super Nintendo World one month after opening

L-R: Luigi, Super Mario series creator Shigeru Miyamoto, and Mario, posing at Universal Studios Japan’s upcoming Super Nintendo World theme park in Osaka. [credit: Nintendo / Universal Studios Japan ] The highly anticipated Super Nintendo World section of Universal Studios Japan will be temporarily closing a little more than a month after its delayed opening, along […]

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Super Nintendo World appearently took scenery from a Mario fangame

The background cacti seen here were created specifically for fangame Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii, released in 2013. [credit: Newer Team ] A piece of scenery at Japan’s newly opened Super Nintendo World theme park area appears to draw direct inspiration from an original piece of art created for a fangame. Twitter user meatball123 was […]

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Nintendo’s Power-Up Band—a physical key to Japan’s upcoming Super Nintendo World

The official Nintendo Power-Up Band, sold exclusively at Super Nintendo World in Osaka, Japan. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] After years of rumors and teases, Super Nintendo World, the world’s first major theme park dedicated to a video game series, is set to open in exactly one month. We already received a comprehensive walkthrough last month, […]

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Miyamoto leads Lovers Throughout Super Nintendo World–and it looks Amazing

[charge: Nintendo / / Universal Studios Japan ] On Friday, Nintendo and Universal Studios Japan took off the veil a years-in-the-making job: the exact initial Nintendo-themed theme park, suitably called Super Nintendo World. And who would like to present the world for the life-sized walk through everything Mario compared to the character’s founder himself,” longtime […]