Hi, I attended the "VIP" event last night. Here's a quick summary:
Giveaways:
Nintendogs Notebook, Dog Tag, Stickers, Adoption Certificate
Nintendogs "Dogs Playing DS" picture
Nintendo DS Lanyard with Brain Age placard
Nintendo Pen
Nintendo notepad (about 3in by 3in and 200 sheets thick)
Yoshi and Mario small stuffed keychain dolls
Nintendo Wii lapel pins with 2006 and the Wii remote
Contests:
Various DS games
Store Gift Cards
DS (not DS lite) and Brain Age
Finally, if you brought your DS they would etch an E3 logo and the date on the lid. This was pretty cool, but they couldn't do them all that night, so you had to leave the DS there (which was unacceptable if, like me, you were not from NYC). They planned this part poorly.
You could also have your picture taken with Link and Mario. They had a variety of food and (non alcoholic drinks). There were also two employees holding a DS lite that you could play under supervision.
In the email they said that you'd "touch our newest technology of hardware systems." They were playing the morning's media event on the store monitors (with no sound), but they had no Wii demos. It would've been nice if they had given all of us a DS Lite
ok, well, at least they could have raffled one off.
If they had more product giveaways and demos, they would've had more people gushing on the forums about the cool experience. As it stands, I can't complain, it was free, but it was still a disappointment.
-frap