So after a sound sleep of about 4 hours, I was up and at ’em, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Dave and I headed over to the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Hollywood is a dump, by the way. Not as nice as I imagined it.
The Nintendo Press conference began with a brief check-in, after which hundreds of members of the press were rounded up like livestock in the foyer of the theatre. It was at this point that I was informed that there wasn’t a lick of wifi signal in the place. The Live Blog that I had promised you guys was in jeopardy, but I had a plan.
They let us into the theatre, and I prepared my videogame-hardened thumbs for some T9 texting action — I would live-blog via Twitter, with Kyle transcribing the text onto GamerNode.
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