Pippi Longstocking - First Look - Nintendo DS

Pippi Calzelunghe Videogioco Nintendo DS Pippi Longstocking will finally make her debut as a video game. The world's strongest girl gets her own game for Nintendo DS™. Together with Tommy and Annika, Pippi starts packing for her next sea voyage. Pippi finds the things she will need in the strangest places. Come along and set thieves straight, visit the circus and test Pippi's strength. Besides the main adventure, up to four players can compete against each other in a multiplayer mode, where you collect gold coins and treasures. The game is published PAN Vision and developed by Ravn Studio. "We felt great reverence for taking on the task to transfer Pippi Longstocking to Nintendo DS," says Tinka Town, Creative Director and co-founder of Ravn Studio. "This is a dream project for us who have grown up with the wonderful stories by Astrid Lindgren. For us it's important to preserve the wonderful Pippi feeling, both visually and the way kids can experience her world." For Saltkråkan AB, the owner of all intellectual properties after Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman, the Nintendo DS is an entirely new format to experience Pippi Longstocking in. "We've worked together with Ravn Studio on the game, in order to stay true to the tales about Pippi Longstocking that Astrid Lindgren wrote. If the players are familiar with the books or films, they'll definitely recognize Pippi's characteristics and the many events depicted," says Christina Ådén at Saltkråkan. The game takes its visual inspiration from the artist Ingrid Vang Nyman, who is the original illustrator of Pippi Longstocking. All books and comics about Pippi where painted during the years 1945-1959. "We really thinks this is fun and hope that the new expression of Pippi will be well received by Nintendo players all over the world," says Christina Ådén at Saltkråkan. The game will be released in Sweden, Norway, Norway and Finland by PAN Vision and distributed by Mindscape Northern Europe BV in The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France.