Nintendo World Store Punch Out!!! Party Dishes Doc’s Remedy Bars

@D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch: NO! I'm so tall that like if you were tall you'd be like OMG that guy is so tall

@D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch: I agree. *backs away slowly*

That was a good read actually! lol

@Sooku: Nah, that's just his cousin from the amateur boxing leagues, Rotor Mazda. Watch out for his Cycle Uppercut!

nworobes

Kind of unfair letting Piston Honda into the competition, isn't it? I mean, he's a professional.

Sooku

Well, i've only seen the eps. not the manga's, therefore my opinion is only directed at the eps.

It's just that ippo did the "sway from side to side" a lot [forgot technique name] and it's all punches in bunches.. grappler baki, while it's art-style certainly is appaling, i find the "DAAAAYUM" factor in it much more appealing.

@Ueziel: I said Baki is less derivative... less. I'd like to go out on a limb here and compare 2 other fighting franchises;

DBZ, Naruto. Both of them tend to stretch fights. While Naruto sometimes throws in 5 minute flashbacks or sentimental epiphany's, DBZ sometimes took 30 episodes for a fight. It was god-awful. Both stretch fights, just one franchise does more so than the other.

D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch

@Ezekiel06: Agreed. Best be hitting up Ebay. :'(

That place is so G......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................AY

@D-K, Big fluffy mushroom spungyness: You just called Ippo derivative while implying that Baki is not. Wow.

Ippo is better in literally LITERALLY every way.

@excel_excel: You're a midget, aren't you..

D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch

This store is not all it is cracked up to be. It's crowded, full of kids running around and running into your knees, and had one too many European tourists. I thought this was a place where one could find hard to find Nintendo games, but alas such was not the case as all the games they carry can be had at any other game retailer.

smirnoffski

@D-K, Big fluffy mushroom spungyness: Are you implying that UFC is better than boxing? Cause that's been done to death in the other thread...

I read Baki too... ;)

Esper mind tricks

@D-K, Big fluffy mushroom spungyness:

I read some of Baki, the art style was wayyy too ugly for my tastes. I recognize that he has artistic talent, but it was way too abstract for my tastes. Personally, for a more brutal fighter manga I read Shamo. It's about this kid who kills his parents because they pressure him too much and he ends up learning this crazy prison MMA fighting style. The story is good and the art is top notch!

@Esper mind tricks: It didn't make a sound until after it connected. He's a... LIGHTNING GOD!!!!!

The candy probably comes with advice inside like "Join the Nintendo Fan Club today, Mac!"

That shirt is made of awesome.

@randomrawr: I don't get it.

@ippo fans: You people should also watch grappler baki... It is less derivative and more brutal.

@excel_excel: AAAAAAAAAAAAlrighty then,

The ratio has shifted, the culmination of a fast-grab dog-eat-dog market strategy has opened pandora's box. As the hording masse gungho's it's way to local game retailers and e-shops alike, statistics get distorted and new marketing approaches are forced upon competitors to stay afloat. By alienating it's core audience in favor of sheer numbers, we're on the verge of a demographic shift. After this sudden infatuation is inevitably followed up by the latest craze, the market finds itself once again niche. The awesome pillars of the mindless horde consists of disposable income, the casual gamer being the industry's disposable income. Invariable fluctuation will, without warning, terminate the current ideaology. It'll all come crashing down once the fad, de-fad's.

Thoughts?

: Of course! OTAKU! Kotaku - go hand in hand.

ahhhh so amazing!!!

Crash__Man

@randomrawr: nice.

I want one of those shirts.

Ezekiel06

Wow, didn't know that many people even knew about Ippo. Fuck yeah, Kotaku is awesome

Looks like they had the Amazon swag there.

@shouryuuken: As do I. Not enought shirts have the thing nearly fully covered with their image!

@Dominic Pietro: Eyebrows being raised?....dude what you cooking?

@D-K, Big fluffy mushroom spungyness: LETS TALK KID

@Esper mind tricks:

CORKSCREW BLOW~
*throws flower*
Down for the count!

@Luigi87: If you're talking about the pink sweatshirt, look at the pic taken from behind the register.
If you look in the background, someone's wearing a pink hoodie and I bet it's the Punch Out one.

Zyconis

I'm going to become a boxer one day. The only thing you need to look out for are eyebrows being raised, or maybe an open mouth.

Dominic Pietro

@Esper mind tricks: Yes. Ippo ftw

This, SSB and the Wiiware muscle man title makes me want a wii...

LET'S MUSCLE!!

I wish there were more Nintedo stores around the country and not just in NYC

@Lapoisse: Or maybe Miyata's new lightning punch...

I was reading the manga, that's why I noticed the twisted arm.

Esper mind tricks

i want that shirt everyone was wearing.

Forgot to add, They look sweaty, must be a good exercise there. When i get this, my arms will hurt so much on day 2...

Mactheridon

@randomrawr: so true

I desperately want one of those shirts

Mactheridon

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@Esper mind tricks: It's the Heartbreak Shot from Hajime No Ippo !

Lapoisse

Reminds me of Ippo for some reason.

zerokoolpsx

Aww, no one is wearing the sweats!

Oops, forgot to go to this. And I wanted to go...Oh well.

Sebnotic Says You're Jealous Of My Avatar

Man, I wish I lived in New York. :/

Kid in picture 2: What?? Food? Where???

Yaxnzax

That bar must taste like WIN

Great Merol

Hey, I just noticed but is mac doing a screw punch?

Esper mind tricks

Someone should have went as Captain Falcon (and Capt. Falcon better be the super secret final boss).

GohanGVO

@excaliburps: the shirt is awesome, good quality too, candy bar is flat and skinny (i haven't opened it) but probably just plain chocolate (fake hershey bar).

themissing

@Esper mind tricks: Technically its both. They're both Corkscrew punches, just used for different purposes.

Voltar

@smirnoffski: wah. it was full of happy people yesterday and i managed to snag the game/shirt and candy. it's a place made for kids, you were one once remember?

themissing

@Great Merol: that's my photo! nice!

themissing

@smirnoffski: The Nintendo Store occasionally has early exclusives for hardware colours and bundles and such; and recall it was the only place in the country that had a guaranteed Wii stockpile.

As for Punch Out, I look forward to getting it when the price approaches a more reasonable $40.

@Legendary Hoamaru: Ippo doessn't really have stretched out fights- then again Ippo has never gone the distance- longest fights were 7 and 8 rounds.

The two 10 round fights in the manga were clipped in the anime to save on time (and in the manga too- referring to Date/Martinez and Vorg/Sendo). Not spoiling other 10 round matches- though they don't involve main characters.

arstal

@Trygle12 is FREE!... and waiting for Disgaea 2:

Funny thing is Dudley is one walking Ippo Parody- Only thing that isn't from Ippo to me is his Uppercut. They so should have made his DP the Frog Punch.

arstal

@Lapoisse:

Ricardo Martinez would be an awesome end boss to this game. Too bad it won't happen.

arstal

@D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch: Most anime fights in long series are highly stretched compared to the manga. Keeps it from catching up to the manga chapters so fast I suppose.

Compare Dragon Ball Kai to Dragon Ball Z. DBKai is only suppose to be 100 eps for the entire Z manga series instead of the 300+ Z anime was.

Is there anybody man enough in Kotaku tower to taste and review the candy bar? Or is it just a Snickers with a Nintendo wrapping?

The shirt does look amazing though. Methinks it'll be part of some new Kotaku contest? (I'm assuming you got a couple of those from Ninty...)

excaliburps

@Trygle12 is FREE!... and waiting for Disgaea 2:
UPPACAT!

nemesiscw

@Brackynews:

Amazon is selling it for $39.99 RIGHT NOW.

DePaulBlueDemon

Damn those t-shirts are pretty fresh...

Ebay here I come!!!

@smirnoffski: I feel ya. It was my first time there and quite frankly I was underwhelmed (but overwhelmed with the amount of Pokemon stuff they had).

I was there yesterday but got there a little too late to enter the tourney. Had no intention on picking up a copy of the game until my friend did and saw that he got a shirt and Remedy chocolate bar.

I'm up to Bald Bull as we speak.

Is it just me or did they give Lil Mac a package?

@def PD: I did the same thing. Got there too late for the tourney. Except I was gonna get a copy of the game either way I sliced it. I am also up to Bald Bull on my second run through.
Gah he's hard!

@excel_excel: Thnx :)

It's a nice change of pace to sometimes just stop and asses the current situation. If carefully refleced it'll tell you the direction of the marketleaders and the direction of the industry itself. Knowledge is often up for grabs.. you just have to grab it.

D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch

@shouryuuken: Yeah that's a pretty rad shirt.

CROSS-COUNTER!

@nemesiscw: YOU have NO dignity.

...goddammit I wanna play 3S now.