Friday, October 28 2005 @ 05:37 PM PDT
Contributed by: matt
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This Halloween weekend you can get an exclusive virtual gift for your Nintendogs game at Gamestop. That's the word on the street, anyway.
Just go in to the store, activate Bark Mode on your DS, and you will get a visit from Haylie Duff's Nintendog. You will also get an audio message and some funky sunglasses for your puppy. (You might say, "who the f%$ is Haylie Duff?" but hopefully you did not say it out loud like I did at work.)
For some reason, the mind of a marketing professional thinks that an obscure actress from the mercilessly quirky Napoleon Dynamite bearing façionable sunglasses is an ideal tie-in for a holiday that is best known for pumpkins, black cats, ghosts, and general adolescent mayhem. (The fact that I cannot comprehend this is simultaneously maddening and reassuring.)
Nonetheless I took a spin to my local Gamestop on Friday afternoon, to purchase Metroid Pinball and more importantly, experience my own virtual brush with greatness at the in-store DS display. I was sadly disappointed when instead of the dulcet tones of Ms. Duff I instead an audio message of incomprehensible gibberish which I suspect was in some way deeply profane. The doggy sunglasses? Absent as well. In their place was a note advising me to "Kiss My sexy black A***."
I could not have been more surprised if Haylie Duff's Nintendog--had it been there at all, the lazy mutt--started humping my virtual leg. Somehow, I think this is not what Nintendo had in mind for this promotion.