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Bowser Jr. Presence Confirmed in M&S Winter Olympics

Tristan Oliver | July 16, 2009

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We’ve been getting tons of inquiries begging for in-game footage from Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.  Though it’s not clean, a news tip from sonicsmashkirby has made your wishes come true.

Our tipster found someone playing the Wii edition’s bobsledding at Australia’s Supanova Pop Culture Expo.  The tidbit of footage from ForwardSlashAwesome.com included Daisy, Yoshi, Luigi, and Blaze.  Though you could also see a tidbit of the middle race and the very tail end, you could also see how the Wii Balance Board in conjunction will be utilized in the Olympic event.  So far, the control mechanism looks pretty solid.

It also appears that this video also confirmed the presence of another character!  Astute video viewer and TSSZ News reader Pur points out that at about :31 in, you could see a flag on the right hand side showing off an emblem for Bowser Jr. Like a previous screenshot that showed off Silver in a similar vein, this nearly affirms that we’ll see the little tyke in this Olympic clash of the gaming titans.

Unfortunately, as of this evening, you can’t see the footage we previously brought you this evening…because even though it wasn’t clean footage and the game was evidently on display at a public exposition, SEGA of Europe has filed a copyright claim on it with YouTube, thrusting the video offline.  It’s a good thing, then, that Pur got the money shot in a still form, and we have that hosted here as a replacement.

TSSZ News will continue to bring you developments on Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, slated for release in October.  Remember that if you have found something newsworthy we haven’t, you can let us know via our News Tips system, and we’ll take a look.

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Filed Under Australia, Gaming News, Global Gaming, Nintendo, Sega 

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28 Responses to “Bowser Jr. Presence Confirmed in M&S Winter Olympics”

  1. Pur on July 16th, 2009 10.56 am

    I SAW BOWSER JR’S EMBLEM 0:31.

    Happy now, character complainers?

  2. Naysu on July 16th, 2009 11.04 am

    ive been waiting for gameplay for so long XD and it looks good, bobsledding doesnt look as easy as i thought it would be (hitting walls and such. but still nothing much to see -_- i want moooore!

  3. Naysu on July 16th, 2009 11.05 am

    to Pur: hey good eyes :)

  4. SLJCOAAATR / Soul on July 16th, 2009 11.39 am

    Oh hey look, a YT video that loads AND plays!!!!!! *Sees the appocalypse coming.*

    Cool to see Jr. I’m a big fan of him. Gameplay looks nice too.

  5. Mike on July 16th, 2009 12.08 pm

    Hey camera man. You’re not in Sonic 06. Point it up.

  6. SLJCOAAATR / Soul on July 16th, 2009 1.31 pm

    ^ I never had that problem…. :S Camera always stayed right where I wanted it.

  7. Pur on July 16th, 2009 1.41 pm

    They found us, captain! What should we do?

  8. TheOGB on July 16th, 2009 2.05 pm

    @ Pur:
    I don’t know what Y’ALL gon do, but I’m gettin the hell up outta here! *jumps off boat*

    Man, they would remove it before I got a chance to see it.

  9. Pur on July 16th, 2009 2.13 pm

    It was rather short (42 seconds); basically, the guy playing was sitting on the balance board, legs straight in front of him, and he was tilting side to side to control the bobsled. It was near the end of the race, so we didn’t see much of the control.

    The guy obviously did well, because the characters were doing victory poses. While doing these victory poses, there were two flags; one of Metal Sonic, and the other of Bowser Jr, hence my first comment.

  10. sonicsmashkirby on July 16th, 2009 2.24 pm

    Pur and the wario flag

  11. sonicsmashkirby on July 16th, 2009 2.26 pm

    and it’s removed >.<

  12. Pur on July 16th, 2009 2.26 pm

    I meant flags that weren’t in the last installment.

  13. sonicsmashkirby on July 16th, 2009 2.33 pm

    Pur oh hehe…….

  14. Danielle on July 16th, 2009 2.34 pm

    awwww its gone :-(

  15. Pur on July 16th, 2009 2.39 pm

    Anyone want a raw print screen of the flags?

  16. Bobber Jr. on July 16th, 2009 3.35 pm

    I do.

  17. Pur on July 16th, 2009 3.48 pm

    ‘k.

    http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv135/xweek/bowjr.png

  18. Bobber Jr. on July 16th, 2009 4.55 pm

    Now Everyone, what do you guys to say for yourselfs, that guy from Mario Wiki was right.

  19. TailstheHedgehog on July 16th, 2009 8.34 pm

    OMG!! I WAS GONNA GO THERE!!!
    Damnit….
    Knew I should have gone to supernova…
    *depression* Ugh, I can’t even watch the vid now… I am never letting that sort of opportunity slip again!
    *sigh*

  20. Edwin Shy on July 16th, 2009 10.09 pm

    I just hope Jet & Rosalina make the cut & about god damn time that B JR is in

  21. Ethan Kerr on July 16th, 2009 10.37 pm

    Lol, Pur, you use Ubuntu. And I applaud you for that.

  22. Manga_TH on July 17th, 2009 12.53 am

    Well guys, I attended Supanova this year, and I can confirm that I definatly saw Bowser Jr in the character selection screen.

    The game was running on a Dev Kit Wii too :P

  23. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games may feature Bowser Jr. « Wii Vidz on July 17th, 2009 1.38 am

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  24. Osnic on July 17th, 2009 7.13 am

    C’mon! They can not put 100 characters in this game! Bower JR. Well….that’s not something we need. Fun for the people who likes him. But I still hope that they don’t put in more characters now!
    And I hope this game has a story. Would be fun if Eggman and Bowser was working togheter.

  25. Edwin Shy on July 17th, 2009 3.38 pm

    Osnic : If they did then the game would come out in 2010 -_- I think game needs 25 characters which is 11 more then first game but u can have a 100 chracters if u made alot of Mii`s

  26. Bobber Jr. on July 18th, 2009 2.56 pm

    Osnic: Well i do :) .

  27. Thisisnotwitchyrouge on July 19th, 2009 8.06 pm

    Browser Jr. is in this game? F*** YEAH

  28. Ryan on July 29th, 2009 6.32 am

    I am glad thats Bowser Jr’s in it :) A LOT!

    Now all i really need is Birdo, Rouge and Cream and the day afters a true birthday! ROUGE! ROUGE! ROUGE! <3

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