Finally made time for this, and wow! I don’t think it counts for this particular list (it never tells you to go grab something outright I mean, it does tell you to squeeze your hand but that’s not the same…? idk man hahaha) but that sure was a fantastic experience! I love mini digital interactive experiences, the toys in WarioWare are always my favourite part, I just like messing around with no goal. Thank you so much for recommending it, I had a lot of fun and it is interesting to think about why we enjoy the things we do :)
Oh also I found the screenshot of super paper mario!
More in line with the What is a video game? game and less with the original topic (is that allowed? I guess it is my thread, so why not xD) but I saw that in Mario Party Advance they have a toy where you “practice” playing rock paper scissors in real life against an in-game rock paper scissors generator: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VSsbHYQwCa4
How awesomely dumb is that! Totally reminded me of “now squeeze your hand” haha
Oh, interesting! My little brother did this for soft resetting for a shiny but he put his around the L and R buttons, like so:
Which then ALSO reminds me, my neighbour had put a rubber band around one of the keys on his guitar hero guitar, though for what reason I can no longer recall
I suspect it was for playing Through the Fire and Flames on Expert, where the opening riff starts with each note followed by a green note (I probably made this connection because I was thirteen at the time and remember a friend describing the idea of putting a rubber band over the green button).
I suspect that I’m not the only person to have heard of Give me toilet paper!, which is a switch game that is designed around placing the joycon inside of a roll of toilet paper. I remember this from a fairly clickbaity article (I think from Kotaku), and I’ve been morbidly curious to try it since.
Oh my goodness, now that you said that I can remember watching him try and play that song over and over, that’s exactly what it was! That memory was totally buried until you described it, wow
I too am really fascinated by the toilet paper game I just need to sit down and give it a go haha Did you see the new game from the same publisher, Bruce and Box? You have to use a real life cardboard box but uhhhhhh it’s much weirder
Games that give you junk that you need to keep in your house to play the game: no thanks
Games that essentialize junk that you already have in your house: yes please
Nintendo released free templates for all the Labo cardboard stuff so you can use whatever boxes you have lying around. No one talks about Labo any more. It’s like we’ve all been labotomized.
Yeah, labo! It’s really cool how they made the schematics available too, though I admit I don’t know how to print on cardboard XD
Further labo fun fact - in Japan, there was a Labo piggy bank and pen stand My Nintendo reward, it doesn’t work with any games but it’s very cute anyhow ^^
I love this stuff. I missed that you already mentioned it. Looking at the templates makes me want to try making them with my kid if we ever get a switch. I guess you would have to print on paper and glue the paper to the cardboard.
Ehh, I’m not picky if I already mentioned something or not, I’d love to talk about anything gaming with anyone :)
And ahh yeah that makes sense! Print out on paper haha why didn’t that occur to me
If you want even more labo fun facts I got more!
There was special labo tapes!
