~Day 1~
Dear family,
Hello from Camp Hyrule 2006! I'm having an excellent time talking with my fellow campers about all things Nintendo. So far we've talked about playing the Wii, looking at the Wii, reading about the Wii, and talking about the Wii. That rip-off of Missile Command is pretty great too! And uh, that's pretty much it. This year those wacky funster copy-editors (or whatever they do) at NOA have successfully managed to keep the entire camp out of harm's way for the first time in Camp Hyrule history. How did they do it, you ask? Why, they simply launched us into space! That's right, I'm in space right now. What the hell.
Love,
NIGHTSB
Welcome, campers, to your first day of Camp Katamari 2K6. For those of us new to this massive shameless promotional campaign, Camp Hyrule is Nintendo's annual online cluster of chatrooms for its beloved Nsider communities and mouth-breathers alike. It returns every year during August like a plague of locusts, and has been growing stronger and stronger for the past eleven years. Eleven. This thing has been going on since 1995. Don't believe me? Check out this frighteningly detailed Wikipedia entry. And just before you anti-Wikipedians get on my case about trying to pass that off as factual information, think about it. Think about the effort that went into creating that Wikipedia page for an internet forum.
I hate the internet.
Anyway, another year another Camp Hyrule feature on N-Philes that begs the question: "What's sadder, an internet forum full of kids aged 10 to 30 talking mindlessly about nothing in particular for a week, or the fact that some people are actually going to take time out of their miserable lives to make fun of it?" Every year for a week during August since 2002, I've been staring at giant white screens with my finger feverishly over the Print Scrn button, hoping and praying that someone will say something that I can take out of context to make them look stupid. Luckily for me, in Camp Hyrule there is no context, so everyone gets to look stupid. These screencaps spawn a decent number of inside jokes and catchphrases for us to beat to death for another year, and that's what makes it all worthwhile.
So, with no further delay, I present to you Day 1 of Camp Hyrule 2K6. It's N-Philes' scrapbook of all things golden. Once again, this year I've received a good deal of help from former N-Philes Retro Section guy, Sharparoni. He was even nice enough to do most of the snappy comments on each picture for me. Which is great, because I'm playing Dialhex while doing this and I really don't want to waste too much time writing something as lame as this for a website no one reads! Ha ha, I'm joking Desiré! I'm really, really not though.
