Video: Check Out The Eager Fans That Got In Line for The Legend of Zelda Demo Slots at Nintendo NY

Some were playing Smash Bros. - why not?

by Thomas Whitehead Mon 13th Jun 2016

Late last week we gave you a reminder that some queuing would be required to grab a slot for The Legend of Zelda's demo at the Nintendo NY store. With just 500 appointments available it was an opportunity reserved for the most eager and hardy of gamers within traveling distance of New York.

KirbyGCN17 has posted a nice video showing some of those fans, from the dark early hours of the morning on litter-strewn streets to nearer the store's opening, when sunlight shows us just how tired some of these fans were. A particular highlight is seeing two duke it out in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (apparently not Super Smash Bros. Melee as we originally said) while they wait.

Check it out below.

Tom has been involved in the games industry for over a decade, mostly writing about it or struggling to sell Indie games. Loves reading, writing, hunting Capcom’s fiercest monsters and watching baseball.

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rjejr
Mon 13th Jun 2016

I still think they should have put the demo on Paper Mario Color Splash. Though judging by it's sales they probably should have put it on SFZ. Put PM could still happen I guess, it would be a nice segue to get the game mentioned at E3.

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MrCafecito
Mon 13th Jun 2016

@rjejr I don't think that would be a good idea, considering 90% of the people hated what they saw about the game.

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radsutton
Mon 13th Jun 2016

That's blatantly Brawl...
You call yourself a Nintendo journalist? Think you'll have to change the title Thomas...

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Moon
Mon 13th Jun 2016

That's some dedication. Do they lose their place in line when they go pee?

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link422007
Mon 13th Jun 2016

Saw a Chevy Camaro. Instantly think that one of the fans owned it. Sorry, I'm a bit of a petrol head.

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radsutton
Mon 13th Jun 2016

@EdJericho Ooo you're right. I kinda assumed they were on a laptop... I didn't even think about Ike, I just saw the course.

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rjejr
Mon 13th Jun 2016

@MrCafecito "90% of the people hated what they saw"

That's EXACTLY why you put the demo on the disc, to get people to buy a game they don't want to buy.

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SLIGEACH_EIRE
Mon 13th Jun 2016

Some dedication. The smart people brought chairs, books to read and some electronic entertainment.

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radsutton
Mon 13th Jun 2016

@rjejr Yeah, you're actually right in some ways. Obviously, there is an audience for Zelda whatever. But I guess they're trying to build up hype which is good.

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ThomasBW84
Mon 13th Jun 2016

@EdJericho My bad!

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Thierry
Mon 13th Jun 2016

Ha, I have that same shirt as Reggie is wearing in the pic @ the very end of the video. X'D

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MrCafecito
Mon 13th Jun 2016

@rjejr Fair enough, still, Zelda is way more popular so they chose it

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OorWullie
Mon 13th Jun 2016

I've only ever once camped out for tickets, it was to see Oasis at the SECC,sometime around 2000/01 . There was hundreds of us there from 8pm,it turned into a massive party. The ticket office was supposed to be opening at 8am but around 7am we were told by someone over a tannoy there were no tickets for sale, they'd all been sold the previous day. We had such a great night we weren't even bothered in the end.

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Kirk
Mon 13th Jun 2016

Christ, it looks like they're is some kind of future dystopia (possibly as imagined in 'an 80s scif-movie like Robocop).

Someone needs to clean those street, for the love of God.

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abbyhitter
Mon 13th Jun 2016

Lol, wow. That looks like the slums of NYC. Dirty streets and loser neckbeard, basement-dwelling, girlfriend-less dorks lined up with a 3DS in hand to play a Zelda game. lol. Sign me up! I need new friends.