Super Mario, Nintendo's mascot.

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The opening to the public of Super Nintendo World in Osaka (Japan) is announced for February 4, 2021. The amusement park designed around the video games of the Japanese giant is in fact an extension of the Universal Studios Japan theme park built at the beginning. from the 2000s. This new part of the site benefited from a total budget of 580 million dollars (about 485 million euros),

Bloomberg

indicates

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Super Nintendo World was initially due to welcome its first visitors in the summer of 2020. The global health crisis linked to the coronavirus, however, forced officials to postpone its long-awaited opening.

The Covid-19 pandemic could disrupt Universal Studios' plans again.

The country is currently facing a new wave of the virus and the city of Osaka is particularly affected.

A highly anticipated Mario Kart ride

The park will offer its customers a wide variety of activities and shops as well as attractions featuring the main elements of the most famous titles created by Nintendo.

Photos recently relayed by

The Sankei News

show the park's colorful structures.

A Mario Kart merry-go-round already arouses all the curiosities.

LATEST: #SuperNintendoWorld is set to open on Feb.

4, 2021 in Osaka, Japan.



Find out more about @ USJ_Official's real-life #Mario Kart ride in the theme park: https://t.co/Pb94OFE7y7 # 任天堂 pic.twitter.com/ZyrqEg3dRB

- Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) November 30, 2020

Equipped with a virtual reality headset and an individual controller, visitors will move on the tracks of a circuit in cars that can carry four people, shows a video posted on Twitter.

They will face each other in a mad race that the creators took six years to develop.

Those responsible for Super Nintendo World would also already have plans to add to the already existing site an area dedicated to the universe of Donkey Kong.

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