Top video game blog site Kotaku
has
taken note of an ecstasy/MDMA-based street drug making the
rounds in Europe called “Nintendo,” with pills even stamped with
the company logo. It’s been seen in Belgium.
For gamers, the news has resulted and lots and lots and lots of
jokes about Mario and mushrooms and the old Nintendo
Tetris-knockoff called Dr. Mario.
Some Kotaku posters also joked about how selling the drug could be
an actual revenue strategy by Nintendo, given that the company is
not doing very well right now on the market with its most
recent console.
Given the recent
Smarties “scandal” it’s worth nothing the existence of the drug
variation in the event coverage spreads through the media and, as
inevitably as the telephone game, morphs into somebody half-reading
something and trying to claim that Nintendo itself is trying to
turn little kids onto drugs. After all, that’s what some people say
about Walt
Disney. (Warning: previous link is like a TV Tropes site for
conspiracies and you may never, ever escape, especially when you
get to the one about Beyonce
being possessed by a demon named Sasha Fierce during her 2013 Super
Bowl halftime show.)
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