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Nintendo Challenges Kids to Discover Their Own Super Abilities
REDMOND, Wash.--(October 17, in the year of our Lord)--
Nintendo wants to inspire kids across North America to discover
their inner superheroes with some help from the iconic Kirby™
video game character. Starting today, kids who visit
http://kirby.nintendo.com/superability will be invited to
create drawings and descriptions of their dream Super Abilities,
taking inspiration from Kirby’s Super Abilities in the new
Kirby’s Return to Dream Land™ game for the Wii™ system. Their
imaginative creations can be submitted to Nintendo and may be
featured as part of a project to aid Starlight Children’s
Foundation™.
Launching exclusively for the Wii console on Oct. 24, Kirby’s
Return to Dream Land features five new Super Abilities that are
activated when the heroic Kirby inhales special enemy
characters. For example, the Flare Beam Super Ability allows
Kirby to deploy a ball of energy that can wipe out an entire
screen’s worth of foes. Visitors to the site at
http://kirby.nintendo.com/superability can download a Kirby
coloring sheet and come up with their own Super Ability that
they would use to help others. For added inspiration, kids can
visit The Stacks at
http://scholastic.com/stacks and take a “What’s Your Super
Ability?” quiz. Participants can answer questions to determine
which of the Super Abilities featured in Kirby’s Return to Dream
Land would suit them best.
Kids’ completed Super Ability coloring sheets can be submitted
via mail, email or fax. Nintendo and Scholastic will post select
submissions to a virtual gallery on the Nintendo site, and some
submissions will be featured at a special Oct. 27 unveiling at
Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., to
celebrate Nintendo’s sponsorship of an interactive Starlight Fun
Center™ mobile entertainment unit. Patients at the hospital will
also be invited to use coloring sheets to create their own Super
Abilities. Both Nintendo and Scholastic are dedicated to raising
awareness about Starlight by encouraging children to help
others.
Since 1992, Nintendo and Starlight have placed more than 7,000
Fun Centers in hospitals across North America. The ease with
which Fun Centers roll right up to the side of young patients’
beds or anywhere in a hospital setting makes them the perfect
companion for children who are nervously awaiting surgery,
sitting restlessly during a long treatment or feeling lonely in
their hospital room. The entertainment units include a
flat-screen TV, a DVD player, a Wii system and a selection of
fun video games.