Wired News is running an interesting story about a group of NYC students whose goal is to fabricate a real-life Mario "amusement park." The park/obstacle course will cater to the little Italian plumber hiding in all of us; you know, the guy who wants nothing more than to leap "12 feet in the air, smash Goombas, collect coins and snag magic mushrooms"--all with the aid of some sort of strap-on device, apparently.
The game is the brainchild of NYU's Big Games class, which was responsible for PacManhattan a few years back, a re-creation of Pac-Man . . . but on the streets of New York. The Nintendo Amusement Park is an obstacle course navigated with a "power-assist harness" that gives players the superhuman abilities of video-game characters.
Photos can be peeped here.
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