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A public service announcement regarding Mag Kid and cinder blocks

by Chris Greenhough { Jul 28th 2008 at 10:30PM }

This just in: if any of you were curious enough to import Nintendo's Slide Adventure: Mag Kid, complete with its unusual "slide sensor" peripheral, then do not play it while resting your DS on top of your cinder block. We are deadly serious here: as far as we can ascertain, playing the game on your other individual masonry units is safe.

This advice is brought to you by the Slide Adventure: Mag Kid instruction manual, which also recommends you don't play the game atop a grand piano, and avoid pointing the slide sensor's laser directly at your eyeballs. Head to Aeropause for more hilarious scans of the manual (which totally reminded us of the ker-razy Japanese Wii safety pamphlet).

Play Asia lets Mag Kid's price slide

by JC Fletcher { Sep 4th 2007 at 5:00PM }

Curious about Nintendo's Slide Adventure: Mag Kid? We totally are. We'd love to play the game designed for that weird sliding optical-mouse-esque DS stand doodad (the official name.) Retailer Play-Asia is making a fairly convincing argument in favor of giving it a shot: they've reduced the price to $29.90 for the week.

That may seem like regular price to US gamers, but Japanese DS games tend to retail for closer to $50. Take into account the bundled doodad and you've got yourself quite a deal. If the game's any good.

Save the robots: play Slide Adventure Mag Kid

by JC Fletcher { Jul 26th 2007 at 3:40PM }

Everyone needs a robot in their life to help them along. From the adorable and tidy Roomba to the Michael McKean-befriending Johnny Five, our shiny friends make our miserable lives worth living. And when those lives are no longer worth living? They'll helpfully kill us all.

Please think of the robots and all they do for us when you play Slide Adventure Mag Kid. The poor robot is broken and needs to be fixed one part at a time. Is it too much to ask for you to fix him by becoming a little insect that changes form when it adds segments of different kinds onto its body, and then sliding around some levels? We didn't think so.

Slide Adventure Mag Kid video slips into view

by JC Fletcher { Jul 25th 2007 at 9:50AM }

Slide Adventure Mag Kid was a game about which we knew nothing at all but the control method. That was enough-- it's a special stand/controller that attaches to your DS and reads movement as you slide the whole thing around. In this video, you can get a glimpse of not only the controller, but the actual game, which casts you as a segmented caterpillar-type creature exploring a house.

You're still going to have to wait for a jumping, bump-hitting, dive-taking peripheral before there's even a chance of that Crocodile Mile game you've always dreamed of.