Nintendo Fusion Tour
Music and video game festival by Nintendo
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Nintendo Fusion Tour was a touring rock music and video game festival sponsored by Nintendo, which began in 2003.
| Nintendo Fusion Tour | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Music and video game festival |
| Years active | 4 |
| Inaugurated | 2003 |
| Most recent | 2006 |
| Attendance | 160,000 |
| Sponsor | Nintendo |
Nintendo's Fusion Tour 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 expanded from 25 dates in 2003 with 90,000 in attendance to 45 in 2006 with more than 160,000, according to Nintendo.[1]
The event has not been held since 2006, and Nintendo has not explained its plans for the tour.
2003 tour
A + denotes an unofficial tour title.
2003 bands
- Evanescence
- Cold
- Revis
- Finger Eleven
- Cauterize
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
- P.N.03
- Wallace & Gromit: Project Zoo
Game Boy Advance games
2004 tour
2004 bands
Select shows
- Anberlin - October 13 - November 1[2]
- Autopilot Off - November 3 - November 13[2]
2004 games
GameCube games
2005 tour
2005 bands
2005 games
GameCube games
- Battalion Wars
- Geist
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Demo)
- Madden: 2006
- Mario Baseball
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- NHL 2006
- Resident Evil 4
- Super Mario Strikers (Demo)
- Super Smash Bros. Melee[a]
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006
- Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
- Ultimate Spider-Man
- WWE Day of Reckoning 2
Nintendo DS games
2006 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)[b]
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Demo)[b]
- Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Demo)[b]
- WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Demo)
Nintendo DS games