As a small shareholder of the company, I thought it was my fiscal responsibility to hit Nintendo first and make sure the company wasn’t going to eff up their 2006 Annual Report projections. My wandering aimlessly towards the booth had absolutely nothing to do with bright moving colors and shapes on the walls. It was pure, unadulterated greed.

Some exhibits went for the balls-to-the-wall 3D experience, but at Nintendo it was all about lines. Not the clean lines of the DS Lites that littered the demo halls or the neat line-art of the numerous Japanese cartoon games that they had coming out. It was more like the ridiculous Disneyland-esque lines of people trying to get to the coveted Nintendo Wii presentation or the irrational “Blue light Special” crowd around the New Super Mario Brothers demo.

I gave up on the line for the Wii after not being able to find the end of the line for (I kid you not) ten minutes. Apparently the line for the Wii demo was pretty unmovable for all 3 days. Ben was able to get into it on the last day, saying that it really was a pretty awesome console and a lot of people seemed to really enjoy playing it.

After licking my wounds, I decided not to be a punk and wait in the demo line for the New Super Mario Bros which, lo and behold, came with the gift of schwag:


A DS Lite case for all those who tried out the new game that comes out TODAY which happens to play exactly and as awesomely as the online demo. I’ll have review of the game in the weeks to come, I’m sure of it.

Oh, and BTW, my stock has gone up $3.00 since the beginning of E3. Gee I wonder why. :D