Who ya gonna call? Luigi! (Nintendo@E3)
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Klonoa
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Well I'm finally at the tail end of my E3 reports and I saved the best for last. Well the best was actually Namco, but popular demand pressured me to do that sooner. So now I'll do Nintendo. They had so many games I hope I can remember them all! But before I talk about the games, I'll talk about Nintendo's booth.<P>Nintendo's booth was big because it had a bunch of gaming kiosks with multiple game play stations so everyone would get a chance to play Luigi's Mansion and such. But it was still pretty crowded! The people at Nintendo's PR are very nice and I enjoyed talking to them. They gave me a really neat Nintendo GameCube/GBA backpack that I read somewhere that those are now selling for over 100 bucks at Ebay.<P>I also got my picture taken with costumed characters of Pikachu and Pichu. When Yamcha scans the pics for an E3 page, I'll show it to you. Even though I hate Pikachu, I wanted to hug the costumed Pikachu at E3. It just looked so huggable! But I wanted to tackle the Pichu. But I didn't because I would've gotten arrested. And I didn't want to hurt whoever was in the costume. One interesting thing that I need to check back up on was when Yamcha and I were walking around the more quieter areas of Nintendo's booth, we heard cool remixes of classic Nintendo songs like Mario's theme, the Pokemon theme and Donkey Kong's theme. Yamcha and I thought that the music was coming from some speaker somewhere, but later someone told me that there was a live band on Nintendo's second floor of their booth. I wonder if they were playing the music.<P>Now I know what you're saying now, "Wait a minute, second floor?" Yeah some companies have two story floors at E3. You'd be amazed at some of the booths. Nintendo had a second floor this year, and I know what they had up there. They had the little caf