Beat to Nintendo's Drum at the MTV Video Music Awards in MiamiPosted on Thursday, September 02, 2004 @ 01:05:27 am E.S.T
Hip-hop, R&B, rock, film and television
artists all beat to the same drum this weekend at the pre-MTV Video
Music Awards (VMA) luxury suite at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach, FL.
Celebrities played against each other on the highly anticipated Donkey
Konga(TM) video game exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube(TM)
available Sept. 27. Artists including VMA winners and nominees
Outkast, Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz, MatchBox 20, Fabolous,
Chingy, Good Charlotte, Steriogram, Evanescence and music video
director Bryan Barber drummed along on the DK Bongo controller to
music arrangements of popular songs featured on the screen.
"Celebrities are a great litmus test for what will be a hot game;
we were pleased to see all types of celebrities from rock to hip-hop
enjoyed playing Donkey Konga," says Perrin Kaplan, vice president of
marketing and corporate affairs. It's not often you get to see Billy
Martin (from Good Charlotte) playing music with (rap artist) Chingy!"
While the suite provided celebrities an array of hot products,
celebrities did give back. Top of mind in Miami were the victims of
Hurricane Charley. Big Boi from Outkast and award-winning music video
producer, Bryan Barber, participated in the Donkey Konga Challenge. A
$10,000 donation to the Red Cross was made on behalf of Big Boi, the
winner of the friendly competition.
Additional guests of the suite included recording artists
Christina Milian, Lil' Scrappy, Adina Howard, Omarion (B2K) and Lea;
music producer Just Blaze; actors O'Ryan (You Got Served), Erika
Christensen (Swim Fan), Brian White (The Shield, Mr. 3000), J.D.
Williams (HBO's The Wire), Michael B. Jordan (All My Children) and
Paulie Shore; Frank, Carmen and John Gotti (Growing Up Gotti); and
music industry tastemakers including Fonzworth Bentley, MTV VJ LaLa,
DJ Clue, DJ Sno, and Lisa May (KROQ-FM, Los Angeles).
The worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive
entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and
markets hardware and software for its popular home and portable video
game systems. Each year, hundreds of all-new titles for the
best-selling Game Boy(R) Advance and Nintendo GameCube(TM) systems
extend Nintendo's vast game library and continue the tradition of
delivering a rich, diverse mix of quality video games for players of
all ages. Since the release of its first home video game system in
1983, Nintendo has sold more than 1.9 billion video games and more
than 170 million hardware units globally, creating enduring industry
icons such as Mario(TM) and Donkey Kong(R) and launching popular
culture franchise phenomena such as Metroid(R), Zelda(TM) and
Pokemon(R). A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based
in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in
the Western Hemisphere.
For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site
at http://www.nintendo.com . Posted By: Adam Paoli - 178 Reads
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