Why do they have Paris Hilton on that Kart?

Beano

And I was gonna go there and pick up a copy of Mario Kart after work...

Damn.

TheSpiller

I love the Irish.

Snake726

Dear God...

Someone better get the riot police in fast.

SPni

ph15h

Wow people really are excited for Mario Kart huh? I mean I am still working through Smash Brothers, I'll eventually get Kart but not for a while.

Deltakiral

"I'm just happy for them that it's safe to frolic in the streets now."

Oh dear...

Dude, that's Dublin, the Republic of Ireland, the conflict was in Northern Ireland (a different country )
Beside which, having lived in Belfast (that's Northern Ireland's capital city)for more than thirty years, I did plety of "frolicking".

Anyway, Mario Kart, it's Ok, but nothing to get excited about, the Dubs have it right.

Cruithne

Billkwando

That's the Gamestop outside Henry street. I remember hearing about it on the radio a couple of days ago. They said it was a Mid-night release. Maybe everyone bought it then and went home? Or it could be that we Irish don't really like the Wii. :)

Morpork

@Beano Her name is Pippa O'Connor I think she is supposed to be some kind of TV star or something. Gamestop even sent out a press release yesterday about this but nobody really wants to cover it.

If you name drop its nice to say what the person is supposed to be famous for. Imagine saying Halo as played by P Diddy but not saying who he is.

TedStokes168

Wow the Stiffy neaar the Liffey is still standing. I suppose I could get the game but I would go to the local Xtra Vision rather than waiting a hour on the bus to get a Mario Kart game. But than I never knew the game was out today.

Anto103

@Billkwando: Never been to the beautiful city of Dublin, I see....

Luke Plunkett

WOO! I've had it since yesterday, thanks to GAME online :D

It makes up for the terrible Double Dash. Nearly.

Josh*

@Shane86: Its actually The Spire or An Tur Solais.

Daithi O'Coinnigh

@Cruithne: excellent, didn't even realise that one

Daithi O'Coinnigh

It's a spire, not a pole, have some national pride ffs

Shane86

Yeah, there's a lot of Poles in Ireland these days...

Cruithne

The more astute of you will notice our capital city monument in the right background. Its a big pole.

Daithi O'Coinnigh

What ever that model got paid to sit in that kart, it wasn't worth it.

Kinburn

@RobertFoster: I did hear that there was a midnight launch on FM104 last night but I didn't pay much attention to it, to be honest I probably won't get the game after losing so many times to my friend on Mario Kart DS, I stopped giving a damn.

Anto103

Where's that, Henry St?

kiigan

@Anto103: There wasn't much advertising for it, was there?

If I'd have known there was a 2m tall inflatable Mario on Henry street, I might have gone in. I'd have stayed away from GameStop though, they're the most expensive place to get anything.

RobertFoster

Hey, is that the GameStop near Trinity College? If so, I've actually been there.

*sigh* I want to go back to Ireland.

jayntampa

Wild.
Look at all those shoppers.

Angryrider

I remember when the 360 launched that same gamestop had a couple of 'Dancers' outside pretending to enjoy themselves in rain and freezing weather like they were in a nightclub. It was probably the most pathetic piece of marketing I've ever seen.

Actually, I guess it's the second most pathetic now.

cordsie

Wait, Mario Kart is out? I had no idea.

I'd say I'd been living under a rock, but no, no rocks in sight.

Fury-genesis

wow.. clean streets..
dont they sell gum in Ireland?

vln

@Billkwando:

How old are you exactly? The Easter Rising was in 1916.

In other news, streets of London now safe to walk following end of The Blitz.

phicaluk

You know what's the sad thing? That's the biggest game release in Ireland EVER. ;_;

Bam345

In fairness, Irish Gamestops are always empty just because they're robbing bastids regularly charging €5 to €10 more on games across the board.

Rob_Velocity

once more i'm proud to say i'm Irish.

_Ted_

Good to see a few Irish peoples wanderin the Kotaku streets :) And about the game, I didn't even know it was out...ah well.
@RobertFoster: HMV, no?

John-irl

Wait, they have GameStops in Ireland?

Huxleyhobbes

I am always amazed at how little we Irish give a fuck about. We are all to busy fightin pints of Guinness with our pet Leprachauns

fatso4gotso

@Huxleyhobbes: Sure, eletricity and runing water too, I even hear that next year they're getting telephones...

Cruithne

@fatso4gotso: ...What? No really, I can't tell what you were trying to say.

Bam345

Oh crap, I forgot this game was out today.. be back in an hour :D

Makeda

Billkwando

@jayntampa:
No it's the other (north) side of the Liffey as evidenced by the spire being in the picture.

IrishHalo

@Cruithne: My reply was to you good sir. ;)

Billkwando

Was in Gamestop today and the kart had been unceremoniously dumped in the middle of the floor up by the 360 games. There was also a Nintendo man at hand to give us Dubliners a go at the Wii Wheel. Didn't have a go because some extremely enthusiastic fellow was praising the control scheme while hogging the wheel.

But nice to see our capital city on Kotaku. Unfortunately our game culture isn't particularly noticable yet, but we're getting there.

johnny_ultimate

There are a few Gamestop's in Britain, although Game and Gamestation pretty much rule the roost here.

david78

@Cruithne: Funny enough, GS do not actually have a global presence, and seeing as they are nowhere to be found in Britain I was surprised at this.

Huxleyhobbes

*facepalm*
I'm actually conflicted as to whether this is a good thing, or a bad thing?

Zeouterlimits

@Huxleyhobbes: And now we see why they decided to buy out the Free Record Store chain in Norway. Gotta start getting a solid foothold on the continent somehow.

As for me, I am so totally uninterested by the game. None of the Mario Kart games have interested me much outside of the one time I got to play Double Dash with 7 other people at E3 for prizes... and everyone got a t-shirt anyway. I see the incredibly high scores and rave reviews of the game and all I can really think is that it's another case of "People will go insane over anything that has 'Mario' on it." Pretty much all of the people I personally know that have Wiis aren't interested at all about this game. :-\

JimTheFly

What is that, Henry St.? We pulled out all the stops, right.

MajorMcMuffin

Great to see so many Irish Kotakuites! Dublin rules! Though our game launches suck. I didn't bother picking this up today. Hearing mixed reports. Just imported Brawl to work with my Freeloader, and it's eating my time. It's totally epic.

kennyd1

@Billkwando: No big deal, sorry for my pissy tone when replying to you.

Cruithne

I was at the midnight opening... It was handy on the way home from the pub. There may have been as many as 15-20 people there. There were competitions too. You had to name the princess in Mario Brothers... ehh... apparently they just wanted to hear Peach though. I won a copy of Naruto for the Wii

monkeyfudge

Mario Galaxy Launch was great craic, Im ust upload the pic of the queue which went all the way round dawson street from game, free pizzas n stuff while you waited, even though I felt bout 50 in the queue (im 27), and the Halo launch was even better, free booze and loads of Halo in the pod, but hey, maybe ya gots to know people who know people!

Gears launch was great aswell, free booze and food, and a go of gears on the xbox bus!

Fieldog

@Cruithne: No offense taken! ;)

It was a really dumb-sounding thing to say, even if I meant well.

Billkwando