Father-son event at Nintendo world store

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jun 16th 2007 at 7:30PM }

The Nintendo World Store held a father-son event in New York today for the title of "Biggest Brain." The winners were Rick and Michael Singer of Virginia who beat 30 other contestants (so, 15 teams?). The bracket-style playoff tested memorization, computation, analysis and other skills we overly evolved apes have. The event was a giant interactive advertisement for Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree.

The Singers walked away with the "hot Wii," which we don't know if that means stolen, and a copy of the Wii Big Brain Academy. The best part is the father, Rick Singer, went to New York on a whim with his son, he says, "I asked my son to come to New York with me for Father's Day, but he said he'd only come if we could go to the Nintendo World store." So, dad wants to spend time with son, son wants to visit the Nintendo World Store, and they walk away with a Wii. Not a bad bonding experience.

[Via Press Release]

Tags: bonding, father, nintendo, nintendo world store, son, wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rentaro @ Jun 16th 2007 7:40PM

So wait, the father had to ask the son out on Father's Day?

hvnlysoldr @ Jun 16th 2007 7:46PM

The son probably would have spent the day with his dad but going to NYC was a whim. I went there last week and it was good experience. Also 30 others means 15 other teams so there was a 16 team tournament.

LTNK @ Jun 16th 2007 7:59PM

So when do we start fighting over whether the new or old Battlestar Galactica is better? That pic is clearly inviting such flames. ;)

hvnlysoldr @ Jun 16th 2007 9:09PM

I only saw off and on the first two seasons of New and few samplings of Old. My dad could probably inform me but I'm much more of a Trekkie and Star Wars fan.

Luigi193 @ Jun 16th 2007 10:06PM

Hey Rawmeatcowboy from http://www.gonintendo.com was there! To bad he didn't win.... ='(

michael @ Jun 17th 2007 1:43PM

is it just me or has nintendo's pr department really taken it up a notch this generation? they stay in the headlines and it's either good news about how they're dominating or it's little blurbs like this, something dorky but nice. they're advertising effectively and creatively. they've reestablished their brand name with all new mojo. they've escaped unscathed from potentially bad news stories like the drought of games, poorly implemented wiimote functionality, shortages, etc. ust seems like everything's working for them right now.