Everybody wanted a piece of Advance Wars

by Alisha Karabinus on Jan 22nd 2008 1:30PM

It turns out people are big fans of Advance Wars. How do we know? Well, folks don't just hang around in the bitter cold for nothing, and from the massive line outside of the Nintendo World store in New York, we're guessing people might have been a little enthusiastic.

We'd like to call these expressions "happy," but there seems to be a dose of "can we get the hell inside already, 'cause it is cold, y'all" going on here.

War is hell, unless you can play with your dad.

That's a lot of Advance Wars fans! Oh, wait ... we know that beard.

Yeah, that beard right there.

Behold! It's GoNintendo's Rawmeat Cowboy! We see you there. You can't hide from us!

[Via press release]

Tags: advance-wars, launch-event, new-york, nintendo-world

Reader Comments (7)

I'm pretty sure at least 80% of that massive line are people waiting for their Wii's. It's pretty much like that every morning.

where is the advance wars ds lite limited edition!!! aghhhhh!

WOW....it makes me wish i had played the first one.....but rts's arent my thing...........but i might pick this one up.......

You guys should fanswag it!........maybe instead of posts you should do it during GameNight in a Tournament Style Selection!!..........IDK.....Just me babbling.....but since last Gamenight all i have wanted to do is gamenight....i think i am an addict

By the way, this isn't an RTS, it's turn-based. Like chess. But with more statistics. And meteors.

Moreover, this edition of AW is really nothing like the previous incarnations. This one seems to take place in a very different universe and follows the story of characters not seen in the previous games (AFAIK -- I'll have to play through to be sure), which had more common characters and added to one common story thread.