Retailer Goes Bananas, Exchanges Videogames for Fruit

[Tom Goldman]

Retailer Goes Bananas, Exchanges Videogames for Fruit

Fruit has become a new form of currency when it comes to Donkey Kong Country Returns.

If you live in the UK, when daylight comes on December 3 and you just want to go home it would be smart to stop off at videogame retailer GAME on the way. Three stores are offering the Nintendo Wii's Donkey Kong Country Returns [http://www.amazon.com/Donkey-Kong-Country-Returns-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B003ZHMMEM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291225918&sr=8-1] for a price that is absolutely bananas.

In fact, the price is precisely one bunch of bananas. GAME is offering copies of Donkey Kong Country Returns in exchange for a small pile of fruit to celebrate the game's release. There is no word on what GAME plans on doing with the fruit, but employees will likely get plenty of potassium that day.

In a smart business move, the exchange will only be available to the first 20 people that lineup on December 3 at select stores. These include London's Games Store on Oxford Street, Dudley's GAME at the Merry Hill Centre, and Hull's Gamestation. Each store opens at 9am.

Depending on demand, this is quite the deal for a game that is said to be extremely good [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/8362-Review-Donkey-Kong-Country-Returns]. Donkey Kong Country Returns is a revival of the praised side-scrolling Donkey Kong games that came out of Rare in the mid-1990s for the Super Nintendo (and ported to Game Boy Advance). If I had some bananas, and I think I know where to get some, I would feel no shame in lining up to exchange them for a quality Nintendo game. Hopefully nobody will be a jerk and immediately trade the game in for cash.

Source: ONM [http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=21833]

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[Badabukavich]

If they're doing bananas for Donkey Kong, can i get the next Mario Game in mushrooms?

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

The closest one to me is Merry Hill and I hate it there... also not too bothered about this game so I'm definitely passing.

Still a very odd marketing ploy Something quite zany...

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I guess the developers will be getting a healthy intake of fruit then.

 

[Electrogecko]

Absolutely absurd

 

[newfoundsky]

Those fruitcakes. To bad I live in the US. Oh well, I have a doctors appointment that day anyway (not enough apples). This IS absolutely banana's anyway. The bell just rang to send me to fourth block. I gotta split.

 

[Outlaw Torn]

I didn't know they even sold fruit in Hull.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

They had an action like this at one of our local gamestores too, but the game was Splatterhouse and the first 20 people could get it by donating 1 gallon of blood

 

[Something Amyss]

Jesus! How much does a bunch of bananas cost in the UK?

If they're doing bananas for Donkey Kong, can i get the next Mario Game in mushrooms?

Only if they're Psychedelic.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

I think the bananas are actually worth more than the rehash of a SNES game. Then again I hate Retro Studios after Metroid Prime and want them to fail horribly.

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Will spent shell casings get me a new shooter anytime?

 

[Habakkuk]

They had an action like this at one of our local gamestores too, but the game was Splatterhouse and the first 20 people could get it by donating 1 gallon of blood

Did anyone go for this?

 

[Tartarga]

In b4 they're just hungry. Also, will they take spoiled bananas? Because I have more of those then I know what to do with.

 

[Swaki]

im sure their heart is in the right place, but i predict hundreds of deaths among those who camps out if UK is as bad as Denmark, i mean last night we had -20 degrees at night.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

What would they do for a trade-in for Pokemon?!

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

They had an action like this at one of our local gamestores too, but the game was Splatterhouse and the first 20 people could get it by donating 1 gallon of blood

Did anyone go for this?

they sure did, but the action stopped once people started to donate more gallons for more copies of the game :')

 

[Swaki]

They had an action like this at one of our local gamestores too, but the game was Splatterhouse and the first 20 people could get it by donating 1 gallon of blood

are you sure it was 1 gallon? you can roughly loose ½ a gallon of blood before you die.

 

[Quaxar]

If they're doing bananas for Donkey Kong, can i get the next Mario Game in mushrooms?

Screw that, I'm gouging out their eyes for Duke Nukem Forever!