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AARP’s Life@50+ National Event & Expo Attendees to Get Active with Nintendo’s Wii System at Sept. 21 Meet-and-Greet

WHAT: Visitors to this year’s Life@50+ National Event & Expo in Los Angeles will be “getting their game on” during a lively meet-and-greet event hosted by AARP on Sept 21. Nintendo will be on-site to encourage attendees to step up and enjoy live, hands-on demos of video games for the Wii™ system, including Wii Play™: Motion, Wii Sports™ and Wii Fit™ Plus. In addition to the social, physically active fun of Wii, the meet-and-greet will feature live music and a delicious variety of California-made food and wine, creating a festive block party atmosphere.

Since launching the Wii console in 2006, Nintendo has led the industry in expanding the worldwide audience for video games, in part by reaching out to boomers and seniors with no previous gaming experience. Today, the Entertainment Software Association estimates that nearly one-third of U.S. gamers are over the age of 50. Last year’s interactive Nintendo meet-and-greet at the 2010 Life@50+ conference in Orlando, Fla., drew an audience of roughly 2,000 people.

– Movement is restricted to a strict grid-based system
– Look all around from your first person perspective
– Control camera with L, R, X, and A
– Turn-based RPG
– Scissors-paper-rock system of red, blue and green magic
– Each enemy has a color, and so does each attack
– When you encounter a group of monsters in the labyrinth, the bottom screen of the 3DS displays the sequence of upcoming attacking turns, along with details of the monster you are currently targeting
– None of the four party members appear on screen
– Nor is the mysterious pale-haired girl who features in all the game’s trailers a party member
– The girl talks directly to the player
– Other party members talk to each other with lines of text

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Layton – Yo Oizumi
Luke – Maki Horikita
Phoenix Wright – Hiroki Narimiya
Maya Fey – Mirei Kiritani

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Nintendo has added a few new elements to the boxart. It now contains an ESRB rating (E10+, not T like Twilight Princess), a 25th Anniversary logo, and Wii MotionPlus icon.


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