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Nintendo Fusion Tour is a touring rock/punk music and video game festival sponsored by Nintendo, which began in 2003.
Nintendo's Fusion Tour has provided early exposure for then-developing bands such as Evanescence, Story of the Year, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Anberlin and Panic! at the Disco. The outing has expanded from 25 dates in 2003 with 90,000 in attendance to 45 last year with more than 160,000, according to Nintendo.[1]
The 2006 Nintendo Fusion Tour had Nintendo DS games, including Mario Hoops 3-on-3, Star Fox Command, and Elite Beat Agents and playable demos for the Wii, including Wii Sports, Wii Play (just the Shooting Demo), ExciteTruck, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (although the latter two were removed from later tour dates due to software issues). Also present was the new Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess game. As the most popular it was alloted two different stations to combat the huge lines it attracted.
There was no tour in 2007, Nintendo has not stated why, but it's assumed that the tour is either canceled or on hiatus. The tour's website now redirects to Nintendo.com
2003 Tour
A + denotes an unofficial tour title.
2003 Bands
2003 Games
Gamecube Games
- 1080° Avalanche
- Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (Demo)
- F-Zero GX (Demo)
- Madden NFL 2004
- Soulcalibur II (Demo)
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
- Viewtiful Joe
- Wallace & Gromit: Project Zoo
Gameboy Advance Games
- 007: Nightfire
- Donkey Kong Country
- Mario Kart: Super Circuit
- Sonic Advance 2
- Street Fighter Alpha 3
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
- WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!
2004 Tour
2004 Bands
A * denotes band performed on select dates
2004 Games
Gamecube Games
- F-Zero GX
- Mario Kart: Double Dash
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Demo)
- Spider Man 2
- Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Terminator 3: Redemption
- WWE Day of Reckoning
(This list is incomplete)
2005 Tour
2005 Bands
2005 Games
Gamecube Games
- Geist
- The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess (Demo)
- Madden: 2006
- Mario Baseball
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- NHL 2006
- Resident Evil 4
- Super Mario Strikers (Demo)
- Super Smash Bros Melee+
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006
- Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
- Ultimate Spider-Man
- WWE Day of Reckoning 2
Nintendo DS Games
- Lost in Blue
- Mario Kart DS
- Meteos
- Metroid Hunters
- Metroid Pinball
- Nintendogs
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
A + denotes an unofficial tour title.
2006 Tour
A ** denotes the game was removed or added during the course of the tour.
2006 Bands
2006 Games
Wii Games
- Wii Sports: Baseball
- Wii Sports: Bowling
- Wii Sports: Boxing
- Wii Sports: Tennis
- Wii Play: Shooting
- Excite Truck (Demo)
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Demo)**
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Demo)**
- Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Demo)**
- Warioware: Smooth Moves (Demo)
Nintendo DS Games
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis
- Star Fox Command
- Elite Beat Agents
- New Super Mario Bros.
- Final Fantasy III DS
- Clubhouse Games**
- Mega Man ZX**
- Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy**
A ** denotes the game was removed or added during the course of the tour.
Internal Issues
It is unaffectionately referred to as the Nintendo "ConFusion" Tour by its annual "revolving door" tour staff due to consistent mismanagement on the road. The majority of issues stem from the appointment of inexperienced Tour Managers (The exception being 2004) by Nintendo's Event Marketing company, U.S. Concepts, lack of tour staff support from U.S. Concepts themselves, and poor consideration concerning Venues and Routing as it relates to the gameplay aspect of the show. During 3 of the 4 years the tour has been on road the tour staff has requested the removal of the Tour Manager. U.S. Concepts honored the requests in 2003 and 2005, but not 2006.