GAME Says Wii Want Mario!
8th September 2006 - GAME Stores Group Ltd, Europe's leading specialist video games retailer, is offering customers the chance to meet the voice of Mario, star of the Super Mario Brothers range of video games, at their flagship Oxford Street store on Friday 15th September 2006.
'Mario', real name Charles Martinet, will be around between 12pm and 4pm to sign limited edition postcards for customers whilst they wait for Nintendo's official announcement of the details about their forthcoming Wii console!
Copies of the New Super Mario Bros. game will be given away to the first 18 customers to get Mario's signature whilst, the next 10 customers will receive a Mario T-Shirt.
Robert Quinn, Sales Director at GAME said "We have secured in-store the voice of one the most recognisable video games characters to sign autographs on the day. Customers have been waiting a long time to hear specific details about the hotly anticipated console, the Nintendo Wii, so we've given them a recognisable industry figure to keep them entertained whilst they wait."
So make sure you get down to GAME in Oxford Street on Friday 15th September for your chance to get the signature of the voice of Mario and hear full details about the forthcoming Nintendo Wii!
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For further information please contact the GAME PR Department on 01256 784442 pr@game.co.uk
Notes to Editors:
New Super Mario Bros. is available to buy on Nintendo DS for £29.99 Charles Martinet will be signing postcards from 12pm - 4pm in our Oxford Street store. The details about the Nintendo Wii will be at approximately 1.30pm.About Super Mario Bros.
Twenty years after Nintendo's biggest franchise was born, the Mario Bros. return in a dazzling, all-new platformer sure to set players' fingers twitching. Fans from Mario's classic days will see their dreams answered in this return to the Mushroom Kingdom, while a new generation of Mario players will learn what true platforming greatness means.
Run, jump and battle enemies through multiple levels in each world. Every time players finish one world, they can move onto the next, but each level features impediments in the forms of fortresses, Hammer Bros. and bosses. After defeating the boss of each world, players can move on to the next, culminating in the final fight in the last world.
About GAME
GAME is Europe's leading specialist retailer of computer software and video games. The Group currently operates from over 400 stores in the UK and Eire and 300 stores in continental Europe. For further corporate information log onto www.gamegroup.plc.uk, and for the on-line store log onto www.game.co.uk