Nintendo Fusion Tour was a touring rock music and video game festival sponsored by

Nintendo is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...

, which began in 2003. Nintendo's Fusion Tour provided early exposure for then-developing bands such as Evanescence, Story of the Year, My Chemical Romance,

Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, lead guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer A ...

, Anberlin and

Panic! at the Disco Panic! at the Disco is the solo project of American musician Brendon Urie. It was originally a pop rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2004 by childhood friends Urie, Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith, and Brent Wilson. They recorded their firs ...

. The outing expanded from 25 dates in 2003 with 90,000 in attendance to 45 in 2006 with more than 160,000, according to Nintendo. The event has not been held since 2006, and Nintendo has not explained its plans for the tour.

2003 tour

''A + denotes an unofficial tour title.''

2003 bands

* Evanescence * Cold *

Revis Revis was an American post-grunge band from Carbondale, Illinois. They released one major label album, '' Places for Breathing'', in 2003 before disbanding in 2005. After a five-year hiatus, the band reformed in 2010 and began work on a follo ...

* Finger Eleven * Cauterize

2003 games

GameCube games *

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* Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (Demo) * F-Zero GX (Demo) * Madden NFL 2004 * Soulcalibur II (Demo) * Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike * Viewtiful Joe * P.N.03 * Wallace & Gromit: Project Zoo Game Boy Advance games * Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising * 007: Nightfire * Donkey Kong Country * Mario Kart: Super Circuit * Sonic Advance 2 * Street Fighter Alpha 3 * Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 * WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! * A Link To The Past / Four Swords

2004 tour

2004 bands

* Story of The Year * My Chemical Romance * Lostprophets *

Letter Kills Letter Kills was an alternative rock band from Southern California, formed in August 2002. They were signed to Island Records. The band cites their Christianity, Christian beliefs as the reason they got together. The name "Letter Kills" comes f ...

Select shows * Anberlin * Autopilot Off

2004 games

GameCube games *F-Zero GX * Mario Kart: Double Dash * Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Demo) * Spider-Man 2 *

Super Smash Bros. Melee ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' is a 2001 Fictional crossover, crossover fighting game, fighting video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the second installment in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series. I ...

* Terminator 3: Redemption * WWE Day of Reckoning ''(This list is incomplete)''

2005 tour

2005 bands

* The Starting Line * Motion City Soundtrack * Boys Night Out *

2005 games

GameCube games *

Battalion Wars ''Battalion Wars'', released as in Japan, is a 2005 real-time tactics game developed by Kuju London and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. The player controls a vast array of units ranging from infantry, armoured divisions and aircraft, co ...

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* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Demo) *Madden: 2006 *

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* Metroid Prime 2: Echoes *NHL 2006 * Resident Evil 4 * Super Mario Strikers (Demo) *

+ *

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 ''Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06'' is a sports video game developed by EA Redwood Shores for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360 versions, Headgate Studios for the Microsoft Windows version, and Team Fusion for the PlayStation Portable version ...

* Tony Hawk's American Wasteland * Ultimate Spider-Man *

WWE Day of Reckoning 2 ''WWE Day of Reckoning 2'' is a professional wrestling video game released for the GameCube by THQ. It is the sequel to ''WWE Day of Reckoning''. The soundtrack features music by industrial metal group A Dark Halo, who performed two songs in th ...

Nintendo DS games *

Lost in Blue ''Lost in Blue'' (''Survival Kids'' in Japan) is a series of survival video games published by Konami. They revolve around the main characters being castaways on a desert island and being forced to scavenge for survival. The series saw two Game Bo ...

* Mario Kart DS *

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Metroid Prime Hunters ''Metroid Prime Hunters'' is an action-adventure game published by Nintendo and developed by its Redmond-based subsidiary, Nintendo Software Technology, for the Nintendo DS. It was released in North America in March 2006, with other territorie ...

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* Nintendogs * Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory ''A + denotes an unofficial tour title.''

2006 tour

''A ** denotes the game was removed or added during the course of the tour.''

2006 bands

* Hawthorne Heights *

Relient K Relient K is an American rock band formed in 1998 in Canton, Ohio, by Matt Thiessen, Matt Hoopes, and Brian Pittman Board Message during the band members' third year in high school and their time at Malone University. The band is named after ...

* Emery *

Plain White T's Plain White T's are an American Rock music, rock band from Lombard, Illinois, formed in 1997 by high school friends Tom Higgenson, Dave Tirio, and Ken Fletcher, and joined a short time later by Steve Mast. The group had a mostly underground music, ...

* The Sleeping

2006 games

Wii games * Wii Sports: Baseball * Wii Sports: Bowling * Wii Sports: Boxing * Wii Sports: Tennis * Wii Play: Shooting * Excite Truck (Demo) * Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Demo)** * The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Demo)** * Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Demo)** * WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Demo) Nintendo DS games * Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis * Star Fox Command * Elite Beat Agents * New Super Mario Bros. * Final Fantasy III DS * Clubhouse Games** * Mega Man ZX** * Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy** ''A ** denotes the game was removed or added during the course of the tour.''

References

{{Rock festivals Concert tours Music festivals staged internationally Music festivals established in 2003 Nintendo events Pop music festivals Rock festivals in England Video game festivals