New Nintendo DS game turns young magicians into ‘Masters Of Illusion’
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 at 4:28pm by Press Release
It’s a Modern Twist on Classic Magic Tricks
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 27, 2007 – You see here before you a video game. By all outward appearances, it’s a simple video game. Feel free to inspect it to confirm it is, in fact, of the standard video game variety. Note that I have nothing up my sleeve, nor do I have any confederates among the audience. Now allow me, if you will, to insert the game card into the Nintendo DS™ portable gaming system. With a few taps of the touch screen with my magic wand stylus … Voilà! Instantly you are transformed into a Master of Illusion™!
This remarkable new Nintendo product has the power to mystically change anyone into an eager apprentice magician with abilities sure to astound friends and family alike. A full repertoire of tricks awaits discovery and practice. Best of all, Master of Illusion comes with a deck of magic cards to get trainees started on the path to magic mastery.
Master of Illusion, rated E for Everyone, is yet another way the Nintendo DS transforms the notion of what constitutes a video game. Note: rabbit not included.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Wait… this… This is so… so STUPID! Video Games aren’t real, so you are not going to suprise anyone. I just… I’m… I’m too angry. I’m going outside.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Yeah, I really don’t see how this will be anything like real magic tricks. I mean–illusions. Tricks are something a whore does for money. Or candy!
November 27th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Maybe it does something like “think of a color and blow into the microphone”, and the candle with the color you were thinking about is the one that goes out!
Wouldn’t that be spooky??
November 27th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
The tricks are pretty clever. I picked it up, but I have to play every day in order to unlock more tricks. I was hoping it would be $20-like in Japan- but I decided to get it regardless.
I’ll have to wait a few days to see if all the tricks are good.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
No real connection to the article for this post (other than magic,)
but still, where’d the lighter fluid come from?