Bowser Jr. Presence Confirmed in M&S Winter Olympics
Tristan Oliver | July 16, 2009
What Was New Video Forced Off by Sega Europe
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.
Filed Under Australia, Gaming News, Global Gaming, Nintendo, Sega
I SAW BOWSER JR’S EMBLEM 0:31.
Happy now, character complainers?
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!
to Pur: hey good eyes
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.
Hey camera man. You’re not in Sonic 06. Point it up.
^ I never had that problem…. :S Camera always stayed right where I wanted it.
They found us, captain! What should we do?
@ 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.
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.
Pur and the wario flag
and it’s removed >.<
I meant flags that weren’t in the last installment.
Pur oh hehe…….
awwww its gone
Anyone want a raw print screen of the flags?
I do.
‘k.
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv135/xweek/bowjr.png
Now Everyone, what do you guys to say for yourselfs, that guy from Mario Wiki was right.
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*
I just hope Jet & Rosalina make the cut & about god damn time that B JR is in
Lol, Pur, you use Ubuntu. And I applaud you for that.
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
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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.
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
Osnic: Well i do
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Browser Jr. is in this game? F*** YEAH
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