{"id":12359,"date":"2023-11-23T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/pushing-buttons-i-went-to-japans-nintendo-theme-park-and-it-was-a-childhood-dream-come-true\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T08:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:38:17","slug":"pushing-buttons-i-went-to-japans-nintendo-theme-park-and-it-was-a-childhood-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/pushing-buttons-i-went-to-japans-nintendo-theme-park-and-it-was-a-childhood-dream-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: I went to Japan\u2019s Nintendo theme park \u2013 and it was a childhood dream come true"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hidden Pikmin, secret Mario logos and mad merch \u2026 the world of Mario has been brilliantly reconstructed in real life, letting me live out a fantasy decades in the making<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always written about the intersection of games and real life \u2013 that\u2019s where the interesting stories are often found \u2013 but rarely do I get the opportunity to do so quite so literally as I have this week. Yesterday I visited the Universal Studios theme park in Osaka, where the world of Mario has been reconstructed in the real world. You walk through a green warp pipe and, when you come out the other side, through Princess Peach\u2019s castle, you emerge into a primary-coloured, crowded Mario-scape, all green grass, yellow blocks and brown brick, with critters moving back and forth across banks of question-mark blocks and the yawning maw of Bowser\u2019s Castle across the way.<\/p>\n

My jaw dropped. I\u2019ve been dying to see this Nintendo theme park since it opened, but I wasn\u2019t prepared for how impactful it would be to walk into a physical manifestation of my eight-year-old self\u2019s dreams. Super Mario World is constructed in such a way that you can\u2019t see the outside world when you\u2019re in there, helping you to disappear into the fantasy.<\/p>\n

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\nI\u2019ve always written about the intersection of games and real life \u2013 that\u2019s where the interesting stories are often found \u2013 but rarely do I get the opportunity to do so quite so literally as I have this week. Yesterday I visited the Universal Studios theme park in Osaka, where the world of Mario has been reconstructed in the real world. You walk through a green warp pipe and, when you come out the other side, through Princess Peach\u2019s castle, you emerge into a primary-coloured, crowded Mario-scape, all green grass, yellow blocks and brown brick, with critters moving back and forth across banks of question-mark blocks and the yawning maw of Bowser\u2019s Castle across the way.
\nMy jaw dropped. I\u2019ve been dying to see this Nintendo theme park since it opened, but I wasn\u2019t prepared for how impactful it would be to walk into a physical manifestation of my eight-year-old self\u2019s dreams. Super Mario World is constructed in such a way that you can\u2019t see the outside world when you\u2019re in there, helping you to disappear into the fantasy. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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