Fear not however as after almost a month of eating nothing but raisins and ham, childsupermodels.com finally became boring enough to encourage us to go outside and find something better to do*.
The 24th New Generation World Hobby Fair 2006
It's a well known fact that when you're reduced to writing internet blogs about conventions that feature games that have already been on sale for several months, it's probably time to pack it all in and get a job at future publishing. Still there we were, knee** deep in eight year old Japanese children, all of whom would spend up to two hours waiting to play New Super Mario Brothers - a game that had been avaliable to the general public for almost a month.
This had its advantages though, as armies of Nintendo ladies handed out Mario hats (of which we recived TWO). They also had excellent T-shirts which we were told could not be bought. When asked if we could have hers she giggled in a sweet and typically nice Japanese lady manner before having us escorted from the building by security.
Highlights featured a playable version of Mario Basketball for the DS - a game developed by Square-Enix, yet oddly lacking in pop up menus and spikey haired twats. Also playable was Super Paper Mario but due to the two hour line we decided (as the professionals we are) to make use of the hundreds of people filling up Picto Chat...
Turns out nobody was up for it so we moved over to the Sega stand.
Now, we're not criticising Sega or anything, we'd just like to point out how saddened we are that a company who were once at the forefront of gaming should be reduced to...this. We don't even know what it is to be honest, we were so depressed that we swiftley moved to the next booth dabbing our eyes with complimentary tissues.
Now here was something we could smile about. The only other game that isn't Me and My Katamari or Lumines to prove to the world that the PSP isn't just an over priced chunk of plastic - equivalent to an over sized iPod. The Loco Roco booth's centerpiece was a giant moving ceramic white PSP with tiny Loco Rocos rolling about inside. inside the giant Loco Roco tent were playable demos and the chance to win some Loco Roco badges. We would have tried but we were busy with more important errands.
Finally we decided that due to lack of interest from outside parties, and the constant stress of fighting through swarms upon swarms of hyper-active Japanese children - it was time to leave.Edit: this article has been edited because some people can't handle two of the same photograph. Cunts.
The 24th New Generation World Hobby Fair took place on the 17th-18th July 2006. To the following people:
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Hiroshi Tamaki
Akifumi Miura
Koen Kondo
Aya Hirayama
Yuya Nishikawa
Katsuyuki Yamazaki
and all the staff on security, Johnny Apocalypse would like to personally apologise for his dissorderly behaviour and lack of regard for health and safety regulations. He's glad the four children were found, and that the piano sustained no damage through the course of his actions.
*There is nothing better than childsupermodels.com and that's fact!
**Cock.
