RSSNintendo Offers Free Wi-Fi at Mickey D's
By Ed Oswald | Published October 18, 2005, 11:30 AM
Nintendo on Tuesday said that it had struck a deal with wireless provider Wayport to give free Wi-Fi access to Nintendo DS users at more than 6,000 McDonald's locations across the United States.
Users will be able to connect to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, a wireless gaming service from designed for the Nintendo DS, starting on November 14. All users will have to do is start a game in Wi-Fi Connection mode at any Wi-Fi-enabled McDonald's.
"Beginning with free access at participating McDonald's, we have removed one of the major barriers that have kept people from going online to play games," said Reggie Fils-Aime, executive vice president of marketing at Nintendo.
DS gamers can also use the console on a home wireless network with "minimal" setup, according to Nintendo, and can connect to wired networks through a home PC with a special USB adapter. Connection to non-Wayport Wi-Fi hotspots would require a laptop PC and USB adapter in order to work.
Games that are compatible with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection include Mario Kart DS and Activision's Tony Hawk's Sk8Land, as well as future titles Animal Crossing: Wild World and Metroid Prime Hunters.
Users wishing to find out more about the feature, as well as what McDonald's restaurants will be participating, can go to NintendoWiFi.com, the company said.
=P Good fun, good fun.
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|Yeah, http://www.nintendowifi.com/ is the link.
(forgot www)
This would be crazy lol can't wait. DS in the playplace! :P
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|Ahh yes...nothing goes better than greasy fingers and controllers.
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|They have these nifty new inventions you might want to check out called "Napkins", and better yet, the "Sink" (usually equipped with "Soap").
Amazing stuff and can rid you of that greasy-fingers problem.
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|Lol. Or for most kids, the "s***" or "pants" inventions are the options of choice.
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|hrmph, usually it's their parents that are the napkins.
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|Always nice to see a fellow Dadddy in the room.
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|Ditto here -- If you have kids, you'd realize that keeping them perfectly clean/degreased is a near impossible utopic ideal.
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|Your NintendoWiFi.com link is bad.
What I'm wondering is, would a regular laptop user be able to get to the Internet though this McWi-Fi or is only for the Happy Meal crowd?
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|DS network does not use TCP/IP as I understand it, so no. Unless they had a seperate Wi-Fi connection for laptops, which some of them have had for a while now.
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|Happy Meal crowd? Well I hope they block your laptop wireless card's MAC address if they do offer it! :D
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|"Would you like Wi-Fries with that?"
"Can I supersize my DS Wi-Fi to a PSP Wi-Fi?"
Gah....
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|Fat kids eating fast food and playing nintendo :P
ohh America, America...
but good move nintendo!!! :)
I hope that they come with a better edition of a Mario Bros. game :D xD
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