The rivalry continues - in real life.
Despite arriving when the park opened, I still had to wait until 11:30am before I could go in.
Of course there are question blocks you could hit to earn coins, or music blocks that produce notes.
Nintendo isn’t the first to open a video game theme park.
Sega had done this beginning in the mid-90s with Joypolis, a chain of indoor theme parks.
Since then however, most of them have closed down, apart from one in Odaiba.
These rides, facilitated by staff dressed in retro-futuristic Joypolis uniforms, ran the whole gamut.
Gekion Live Coaster is perhaps the strangest combination - an indoor roller coaster that’s also a rhythm game!
I suppose part of that is just the old Sega fanboy in me talking.
But that’s for another article.
