Everyone's most-beloved Nintendo character, Tingle, is starring in two new Tingle titles on the Nintendo DS, at least in Japan. The lovable little middle-aged, fairy-obsessed map salesman will star in Color Changing Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love (no, I didn't make that title up) and "Dekisugi Tingle Pack."
Dekisugi Tingle Pack, available for download now in Japan, isn't a game as much as a DSiWare collection of Tingle-centric applications including a calculator, a fortune teller, a timer and a coin-flipper. Color Changing Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love, is apparently a full sequel to Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland. Little is known about the project, but according to IGN, it's not themed-around money like Rupeeland; creepily, it's themed around girls. Famitsu lists the title's date as TBA.
Tingle made his first appearance in N64 classic Majora's Mask, where he delighted a generation of gamers by hovering around on a balloon and selling maps. His hobbies include collecting rupees, saying "Kooloo-Limpa!" and annoying me.
What do you think of Tingle? Would you like to see these two games appear in the U.S.? Would you buy them? What do you think accounts for Tingle's evident popularity in Japan?
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BloodKnight86
SODAPOP
FreshCut_T70
This is why I can't like a lot of games from Japan, this wreaks of pedophilia
AKbulldogg
I hate Tingle, he scares me
g4ismediocre
This article is pointless, no U.S. release date. Japanese are hogging all the fun.
InHumanMarine
The Japanese are lame.
achillez77
TINGLE MUST DIE! He is the worst thing about Zelda. The Japanese love him for the same reason they love Pokemon and weird bondage stuff.
@ IcemanMX - hurry up and pull the trigger dude, lol
IcemanMX
What do I think of Tingle? (*pumps shotgun*)
If Nintendo really wanted to compete in the FPS realm, all they would have to do is copy Left 4 Dead (watered-down, of course) and replace all of the zombies with Tingle clones. As an added touch, make the Tingle clones take damage and explode in a cascade of blood and guts that would make Grindhouse look like My Little Pony and *BAM*, you got yourself the most popular, best-selling Wii game of all time.
-M
Blue_Vortex
oh noes the world is coming to a end. Tinkle will bring the destruction of the world once he kills link off and gets a game of his own.
Slaytanic40oz
Just wait for the angry emails to roll in. Paste Tingle's head on Megan Fox and you'll single handedly destroy the internet.
sjohnson
@Slaytanic: Ha ha! I hope I'm blamed for a rash of cracked monitors all over the world.
Killua_Zoldyck
I love this quirky Japanese ish, hook it up...his pic alone makes me crack up...
Slaytanic40oz
I assume you posted that huge picture of Tingle because you wanted at least one of us readers to punch our monitors. It almost worked. That bitch is adblocked now.
scr3wnai1
YES I WOULD!!!!!!!!!!
Out of all of Nintendo`s supporting characters this one has the most interesting backstory.
So come on Nintendo bring Tingle`s games stateside.
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