Super Nintendo World in Japan is finally set to open March 18,Nintendo announced.- The park was originally supposed to open last summer but was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
- Visitor numbers will be limited and people will have to wear masks, Engadget reports.
Japan's huge new Nintendo-centered theme-park area, Super Nintendo World, is finally set to open its doors this month after being delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Nintendo $4 Monday that the park, located inside Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan, was scheduled to open March 18.
—任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo) $4
The park was $4 ahead of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but this timeline was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. It then set an opening date of February, but this also got $4 because of high rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
$4 reports that the park is set to take only a limited number of visitors at a time and require them to wear masks.
In a presentation given in January 2020, executives said the park would resemble a "life-size, living video game."
They also said visitors would be given special "Power-Up Bands" - wearable wrist bands that would let visitors collect coins and compete with one another via an app on their phones.
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