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Hearts of iron game grumps1/7/2023 ![]() The Mario Party session ended with team Waluigi winning in a landslide over the second-place team Toad in a little over an hour. The show was over as quickly as it had started. A Jersey native himself, Dan joked that “Your Jersey hatred is like vitamins to me.” The “boo”s of the losing half’s displeasure were met with Arin’s joking that New Jersey was going to think we hated the Game Grumps, but Dan was all about it. It was all a light jab, as Dan took to the mic mid-show to coyly ask the audience if they were actually saying “THANK YOU, ARIN”. Audience members from both sides were called up to compete for their team’s placing in mini-games challenging memory, reaction time, and gaming skills. The show was set up to have two of the Mario Party characters (Peach and Yoshi) controlled by Dan and Arin, with the other two characters, Toad and Waluigi, having been played by members of either half of the audience. ![]() With around 4,000 fans in attendance, getting to the front of the stage wasn’t going to happen unless you’d been waiting at the venue’s gates at least 12 hours prior to the show’s start.Īrin is colloquially known as the duo’s resident “grump,” with Dan being the Southern Californian production’s softer, bushy-haired “not so grump.” The two played off this dynamic as they riled the crowd up with a big screen projected game of Super Mario 10 for the now-defunct Nintendo Wii U. ![]() The show’s energy felt like a mix of a punk rock mosh pit with the tilt of 20-something video game nerds reveling at the concept of seeing their favorite video game commentators in the flesh.
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