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NINTENDO EMPLOYEES DONATE 4 TONS OF FOOD TO NORTHWEST HARVEST

With Food Donations Down in Puget Sound Area, Nintendo Rallies to Help



REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 23, 2004 - Nintendo of America employees opened their cupboards, wallets and hearts to donate 4 tons of food to Northwest Harvest on Tuesday. The massive donation ensures that those who need food the most will have it on their tables for Thanksgiving. With video game icon Mario™ on hand, the 4 tons of food were loaded into a Northwest Harvest truck to be delivered to some of the 300 food banks the statewide organization supplies.

"Northwest Harvest tells us that food donations in the area are down 38 percent from last year, so our employees even went so far as to hold competitions to see which division could collect the most food," said Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing & corporate affairs. "During the past few weeks, it's become commonplace to see employees arrive at work with trunks loaded with pounds of pasta, huge sacks of pancake mix and so many cans of vegetables they can't carry them all."

The more than 800 employees at Nintendo's Redmond offices each donated an average of 10 pounds of food. The company also made a $5,000 donation to Northwest Harvest. For more information about Northwest Harvest, visit www.northwestharvest.org.

The worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its popular home and portable video game systems. Each year, hundreds of all-new titles for the best-selling Game Boy® Advance, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems extend Nintendo's vast game library and continue the tradition of delivering a rich, diverse mix of quality video games for players of all ages. Since the release of its first home video game system in 1983, Nintendo has sold more than 1.9 billion video games and more than 170 million hardware units globally, creating enduring industry icons such as Mario™ and Donkey Kong® and launching popular culture franchise phenomena such as Metroid®, Zelda™ and Pokémon®. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere.

For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site at www.nintendo.com.

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[Smiles and Cries]

Did Oxy not say that Nintendo does not pay well... the food should go back to those poor souls at NOA

 

[Ninja Scooter]

[igncube]THEY SHOULD HAVE USED THAT TIME AND MONEY TO PROMOTE METROID PRIME 2 ECHOES!!! [/igncube]

 

[bishoptl]

:lol

Anyways, this is a nice gesture indeed.

 

[tedtropy]

Sell your turkeys, it's all over! Yeah, I don't know either...

 

[Azih]

SELL YOUR PS2s and XBOXES it's all over!

 

[TheGreenGiant]

WTF. Nintendo didn't make Harvest moon so they can't even do a advertising tie in. What a bunch of dumb fucking asses. Charity is so overrated. [/sarcasm]

(see: 1000 door debacle).

 

[lexi]

I was looking for the tie-in too.

Seems genuine, not that the 1000 Door thing was any less genuine.

 

[Gahiggidy]

Nice guys finish last.

 

[xsarien]

[igncube]THEY SHOULD HAVE USED THAT TIME AND MONEY TO PROMOTE METROID PRIME 2 ECHOES!!! [/igncube]

I was thinking the same thing. :/

 

[lexi]

Nice guys finish last.

Maybe Nintendo believes in Karma?

 

[Shouta]

oh man, I'm so glad I stopped volunteering at Northwest Harvest a few years ago. 4 tons of food is so much to sort. I still remember the 1500-2000 or so Microsoft Lunches that I helped sort in 10 hours. :lol. So much pain.

 

[Meier]

[igncube]THEY SHOULD HAVE USED THAT TIME AND MONEY TO PROMOTE METROID PRIME 2 ECHOES!!! [/igncube]

:lol :lol Piston Honda rules.

 

[bitwise]

[igncube]THEY SHOULD HAVE USED THAT TIME AND MONEY TO PROMOTE METROID PRIME 2 ECHOES!!! [/igncube]

what do you think it is that they gave away?

4 unsold tons of em.

 

[FortNinety]

Too bad all the food is only suitable for just teh kiddies.

 

[Particle Physicist]

what do you think it is that they gave away?

4 unsold tons of em.

whoa.. what is that ?? i want . i want!

 

[Jonnyboy117]

This is very cool. I'm glad to see that they haven't tried to tie it into some game promotion like they did for Paper Mario. That was my only problem with the last donation.

 

[Gahiggidy]

This is very cool. I'm glad to see that they haven't tried to tie it into some game promotion like they did for Paper Mario. That was my only problem with the last donation.

No, you don't get it. The problem is that doing "charity" stunts like this will only cement Nintendo's reputation as out-of-touch with today's cynical youth. NOA needs to ditch the good-guy image. Doing charity work wont get you respect with the peeps... but a selfish, amoral corporate attitude will.

nihilism == HOT!
morality == NOT.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

No, you don't get it. The problem is that doing "charity" stunts like this will only cement Nintendo's reputation as out-of-touch with today's cynical youth. NOA needs to ditch the good-guy image. Doing charity work wont get you respect with the peeps... but a selfish, amoral corporate attitude will.

nihilism == HOT!
morality == NOT.

:lol :lol :lol Get smapty on this shit ASAP!!

 

[Dave Long]

No, you don't get it. The problem is that doing "charity" stunts like this will only cement Nintendo's reputation as out-of-touch with today's cynical youth. NOA needs to ditch the good-guy image. Doing charity work wont get you respect with the peeps... but a selfish, amoral corporate attitude will.

nihilism == HOT!
morality == NOT.

It's pretty sad that this sorta makes perfect sense.

 

[jedimike]

I'm glad Nintendo gets involved in the community... Too bad they make a circus of it. A thousand doors? Mario giving out food? Is it a press event or charity work?

Nice guys finish last.

How did this guy get to be #1 then?


Greedy, greedy, MS

 

[MASB]

I'm glad Nintendo gets involved in the community... Too bad they make a circus of it. A thousand doors? Mario giving out food? Is it a press event or charity work?





How did this guy get to be #1 then?


Greedy, greedy, MS

He has to atone for his sins somehow. That's traditionally how the robber barons of a past age did things. Get their money by any means necessary, then give some of it away to charity in later years. Gates is just continuing that tradition. Not saying his charity isn't a great thing, but alot of the money he's made, has been through quasi-legal/illegal means. And that's not to say other companies/men don't do the same, Microsoft/Gates just don't try to hide their misdeeds. Ballmer:" Watchout Asian governments!! Microsoft owns at least 20 patents on things in Linux!! Better buy more Office!!!"

 

[DSN2K]

nice but are they paid overtime ?

 

[Duck of Death]

[igncube]THEY SHOULD HAVE USED THAT TIME AND MONEY TO PROMOTE METROID PRIME 2 ECHOES!!! [/igncube]

:lol :lol :lol

Well-played good chap. Well-played indeed.