Here’s an obvious marketing ploy, but we like the sentiment behind it: to celebrate the launch of Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol, Nintendo are giving away 500 tree seedlings to anyone (from the US, presumably) who registers on the website, www.chibi-robo.com, before November 9th (although I can’t see anything there yet). Why 500, though? Presumably that’s how many copies they think they’re going to sell. Ho ho.

Park Patrol is the new DS game featuring a lovable servile robot tasked with tending to a rundown park. It’s somewhere along the lines of Harvest Moon, cute and cheery, if a little repetitive. But don’t take my word for it; some handsome guy already wrote an opinion of it over on some other site. It’s being exclusively sold in the US through Wal-Mart who, on this moral theme, appear to have had their fair share of controversies, if the worst is to be believed.

Meanwhile, we particularly like the environmentally-friendly bullet points at the bottom of the press release. “Nintendo recycles more than 70 percent of the waste generated at its headquarters.” We have images of Virtual Boys and Power Gloves turned into pencils and loo rolls. A fitting future for them indeed. “Nintendo requires manufacturers not use any banned substances (such as lead, mercury, etc.) in components, nor use them in the manufacturing process for any components used in its products.” Hang on, didn’t Wario Ware Twisted use mercury? Well, no, that appears to be an urban myth. It uses a piezoelectric gyroscope according to this site here. That doesn’t make its continual non-appearance in Europe any more comforting.

Source: Go Nintendo

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 9:50 am by James Lyon
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