--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nintendo of America Inc.:
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WHAT: |
Nintendo and Starlight Children’s Foundation™ will place a Starlight Fun Center™ mobile entertainment unit, featuring a Wii™ video game system, DVD player and a Sharp AQUOS™ LCD TV, in the Miller West pediatric unit at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach. | |||
| The Fun Center dedication is part of a series of festivities surrounding Nintendo’s launch of its Kirby’s Return to Dream Land™ game for the Wii system on Oct. 24. | ||||
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Earlier this month, Nintendo inspired kids across North America to discover their inner superheroes with some help from the iconic Kirby™ video game character. Kids who visited a website created for Kirby’s Return to Dream Land were invited to create drawings and descriptions of their dream Super Abilities. Their imaginative creations were then submitted to Nintendo to be part of a project to aid Starlight, raise awareness about the organization and encourage children to help others. For added inspiration, kids can also visit The Stacks website at http://www.scholastic.com/nintendokirby/ and take a "What’s Your Super Ability?" Quiz. |
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| Nintendo will display several of these submissions during the Fun Center dedication at Miller Children’s. Patients at the hospital will also be invited to use coloring sheets to create their own Super Abilities, which Nintendo will use to create a mural for the hospital. | ||||
| Kirby will also be on hand for the Fun Center dedication to interact with young patients, play Fun Center games and distribute special blankets. | ||||
| Kirby will be joined by actress and Starlight Fairy Godmother Jamie Lee Curtis, Executive Vice President of Nintendo America Inc. Don James and representatives from Miller Children’s and Starlight. | ||||
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WHERE: |
Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach | |||
| 2801 Atlantic Avenue | ||||
| Long Beach, CA 90806 | ||||
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WHEN: |
Thursday, October 27, 2011; 2 p.m. | |||
Please join us on Thursday!
Photo and interview
opportunities will include:
Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
and Starlight Fairy Godmother
Don James, Executive Vice
President, Nintendo of America Inc.
Mel Marks, M.D., Executive
Vice President, Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach
Joyce
Volsch, Vice President, Patient Care Services, Miller
Children’s Hospital Long Beach
Rita Goshert, Manager, Child
Life, Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach
Roger Shiffman,
Global Board Chairman, Starlight Children’s Foundation
Jacqueline
Hart-Ibrahim, Global CEO, Starlight Children’s Foundation
Kirby
Children
Unveiling
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BACKGROUND: |
Since 1992, Nintendo and Starlight have placed more than 7,000 Fun Centers in hospitals across North America. The ease with which Fun Centers roll right up to the side of young patients’ beds or anywhere in a hospital setting makes them perfect for hospitalized children in numerous situations: anticipating surgery, during long outpatient clinic treatments, waiting in the emergency room or fighting loneliness after visiting hours have ended. Fun Centers uniquely counter the isolation and fear often experienced by sick children. The Fun Center is a welcome guest, when other visitors aren’t around! | |
About Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach
Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach provides specialized pediatric care for children and young adults, with conditions ranging from common to complex - as well as maternity care for expectant mothers - all under one roof. Only five percent of all hospitals are children’s hospitals, making them unique not only to children’s health care needs in the community, but across the region. Miller Children’s is one of only eight free-standing children’s hospitals in California - treating more than 8,000 children each year - and has become a regional pediatric destination for more than 84,000 children, who need specialized care in the outpatient specialty and satellite centers. Miller Children’s is currently undertaking a major expansion project to expand the pediatric cancer center, neonatal intensive care unit and the MemorialCare Center for Women. Visit MillerChildrens.org, like us on Facebook.com/MillerChildrensHospital and follow us at tweets@millerchildrens.
About Starlight Children’s Foundation
When a child or teenager has a serious medical condition, everyone in the family is affected. For nearly 30 years, Starlight Children’s Foundation has been dedicated to helping seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities. Starlight’s programs have been proven to distract children from their pain, help them better understand and manage their illnesses, and connect families facing similar challenges so that no one feels alone. Through a network of chapters and offices, Starlight provides ongoing support to children, parents and siblings in all U.S. states and Canadian provinces with an array of outpatient, hospital-based and Web offerings. Programs are also delivered internationally through affiliates in Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom. To learn more visit www.starlight.org.
About Nintendo
The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console, Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.7 billion video games and more than 600 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at http://www.nintendo.com.