The Big N invades hotel rooms across North America as an exciting alternative to dirty movies

LodgeNet Entertainment and Nintendo are providing a little "in-room entertainment" of their own with the announcement that the Nintendo 64 will be the videogame system of choice in all of LodgeNet's future hotel room entertainment system installations. N64's will be popping up in high, medium and low budget hotels all over the place at the astounding rate of 11,000 per month until every LodgeNet serviced lodging has one.

Each N64 will be outfitted with a variety of titles including Mario Kart 64, Super Mario 64, 1080 Snowboarding and The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. In their efforts to remain family friendly don't expect some of the N64's more violent titles like Turok or GoldenEye to make the cut. Likewise, bringing your own collection of top N64 titles may not help either since the games are loaded and run from somewhere deep in the hotel's bowels. Now parents who drag their kids on vacation to get them away from those "evil" videogames will have the same headache waiting for them when they check into the motor inn right outside of Disney World.

LodgeNet is the same company that put all of those Super NES systems in hotels and motels across North America so the N64's will be more of an upgrade than a totally new endeavour. The company estimates that 54 million minutes of Nintendo powered entertainment were purchased last summer alone. That's a whole lot of shortcuts, keys and switches gamers had to go back for and they paid for every single one of them.

Courtesy of IGN.com