{"id":43602,"date":"2018-08-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/random_nintendo_brings_switch_games_to_life_in_this_bonkers_public_promotional_ad"},"modified":"2018-08-29T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T11:00:00","slug":"random-nintendo-brings-switch-games-to-life-in-this-bonkers-public-promotional-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/29\/random-nintendo-brings-switch-games-to-life-in-this-bonkers-public-promotional-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Nintendo Brings Switch Games To Life In This Bonkers Public Promotional Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/78c7f70890d82\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/78c7f70890d82\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"We didn't know real-life Shy Guys would be so disturbing\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/78c7f70890d82\/we-didnt-know-real-life-shy-guys-would-be-so-disturbing.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/78c7f70890d82\/we-didnt-know-real-life-shy-guys-would-be-so-disturbing.900x.jpg\" alt=\"We didn't know real-life Shy Guys would be so disturbing\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t know real-life Shy Guys would be so disturbing<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We all know and love Nintendo for its family-friendly image, cheery and colourful games, and the pure fun emanating from its franchises, but all of this is usually enjoyed from the comfort of our own homes. In a new promotional ad for the Switch, however, Nintendo took to the streets to surprise real families with some frantic, public gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the video below, people passing by were encouraged to hit a Question Mark Block to select a game to play. Rather than simply plonking players down in front of a TV, though, Nintendo opted to create full-on, real-life setups of the games themselves, with racing seats, tennis courts, people dressed up as Nintendo characters, and even a model cow being introduced right in the middle of a public space.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If we had to pick our favourite moment from the video, it&#8217;d probably have to be this human Lakitu. We didn&#8217;t realise we ever wanted a Lakitu suit, but playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8\u00a0Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> at home won&#8217;t feel the same until we get one.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Can we invite this person to come and host races at Nintendo Life HQ?\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/061e6908a450d\/can-we-invite-this-person-to-come-and-host-races-at-nintendo-life-hq.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/061e6908a450d\/can-we-invite-this-person-to-come-and-host-races-at-nintendo-life-hq.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Can we invite this person to come and host races at Nintendo Life HQ?\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Can we invite this person to come and host races at Nintendo Life HQ?<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Do you wish you could be around to witness something like this? Would you take the opportunity to completely embarrass\u00a0your family members with a stonking public victory? Let us know below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t know real-life Shy Guys would be so disturbing We all know and love Nintendo for its family-friendly image, cheery and colourful games, and the pure fun emanating from its franchises, but all of this is usually enjoyed from the comfort of our own homes. In a new promotional ad for the Switch, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}