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  1. 07-13-2005 #1
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    Well, I guess Nintendo have agents that are everywhere...

    This happened a veeeeeeeeery looooooooong time ago. I think back in the year 1996.

    I was 7 years old at a party. There were many balloons there. I think it was a wedding. Anyway, before I was about to leave with my parents, then I wrote a letter to Nintendo:

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    Dear Nintendo,

    I wish you would release Donkey Kong Country 3.
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    (This was right when Donkey Kong Country 2 for the SNES came out.)

    I then tied the rope of a balloon onto the letter, went outside, then let it go. There were other kids there, but they didn't know it was a letter to Nintendo (Maybe Santa Clause, hehe).

    Anyway, months later, I recieved a Preview video on Diddy Kong Racing for the N64. Wow! I never sent anything in my life to Nintendo for them to send me that! My parents didn't even know I sent a letter to Nintendo on a balloon.




    Weeks later, another Video. It was on Banjo-Kazooie.
    Weeks later, Pokémon (Before it even came out in the US).
    The last one weeks later, a vid on Jet Force Gemini & Donkey Kong 64.

    I guess someone who worked for Nintendo found my letter & decided to send me stuff.

    P.S. Someday, I'll get a video capture card & release the vids on the net.
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  2. 07-13-2005 #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark30001
    This happened a veeeeeeeeery looooooooong time ago. I think back in the year 1996.
    Long time ago...9 years.....don`t you just hate these teenagers :smt014

    Nice story though!

    ....Full on Mario collector....
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    Meh, your parents probably put on an act and got a hold of them. Did you write down your adress on the Baloon?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Casual
    Meh, your parents probably put on an act and got a hold of them. Did you write down your adress on the Baloon?
    Yeah I put my address.
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    Weird stuff.

    Coincidence... or Espionage?

    The world may never now!
    (or maybe your parents saw what you wished written on the letter and then requested the stuff from nintendo themselves...?)
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    oh my god that fucking crazy.

    yesturday i found that same preview video for diddy kong racing laying in the alleyway behind my house, i just finished watching it not a minute ago.


    its pretty good stuff, i liked that one cracked out reporter screaming into the camera.
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    man, that's just too weird. 0_o
    "(...)A One World Government and one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population." Dont let media feed you with lies. open your eyes and search information yourself.
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    Creepy! I've seen the Donkey Kong 64 and Diddy Kong videos at various local thrift stores and such, but never thought about picking them up - are they any good?

    Maybe we should petition Orwell's estate to have the catchphrase changed to, "Brother Miyamoto is watching you."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Greatsaintlouis
    Maybe we should petition Orwell's estate to have the catchphrase changed to, "Brother Miyamoto is watching you."
    So that's what Lakitu is doing up there :angry
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  10. 07-13-2005 #10
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    Well, at least I got the games. The vids were OK.
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    GPS Nintendo balloons, interesting...

    ;)
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    I remember pre-ordering Donkey Kong Country for the SNES, it came with a preview video of the game and it came with a Nintendo sponsored Go Ape! music C.D full of decent stuff like Primal Scream :)

    ...I still have them to this day!
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldengineer
    I remember pre-ordering Donkey Kong Country for the SNES, it came with a preview video of the game and it came with a Nintendo sponsored Go Ape! music C.D full of decent stuff like Primal Scream :)

    ...I still have them to this day!

    And killer instinct with the killer kuts cd
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    All nintendo promotional videos....so corny...so very corny...oh how I hated the Starfox 64 one...
    Death to Bill and Ted!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blur2040
    All nintendo promotional videos....so corny...so very corny...oh how I hated the Starfox 64 one...
    WOW! There was a Star Fox 64 one! Sounds interesting!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark30001
    WOW! There was a Star Fox 64 one! Sounds interesting!
    Long story short, it's a circle jerk over the Rumble Pack.
    Death to Bill and Ted!
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    I used to get those videos as well, only it was because I preordered at Toys 'R Us. Since they asked for my address, I guess they sent it to Nintendo's advertisement department (Or whatever junk mail advertisers they sent it to).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jasonkhowell
    I used to get those videos as well, only it was because I preordered at Toys 'R Us. Since they asked for my address, I guess they sent it to Nintendo's advertisement department (Or whatever junk mail advertisers they sent it to).
    Ah, that sounds familiar now. I remember my dad secretly buying me Super Mario 64 from Toys R Us & also got me Diddy Kong Racing. I guess he must have filled out information for Nintendo to start sending me vids.
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    haha!

    Mystery solved!
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    Still, the balloon thing is kinda romantic.

    Next time I'm stuck on a desert island I'll be sure to use that one bottle and one piece of paper to write to Nintendo.:)
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