Nintendo is always trying to appeal to a new gaming audience, and this time it's no exception. If you bring your DS or DS Lite to a Seattle Mariner's game in Safeco Field, you're in for a treat. For a one-time fee of $5, you'll be able to order food, watch the live television feed of the game, watch instant replays, or even access stats and scores and play trivia ... all from the comfort of your seat. (no matter where you are seated in the stadium)

The Redmond, Wash.-based company is making a pitch to turn its portable DS Lite into a baseball staple, bringing interactive technology to fans through a pilot program being tested this season at the Mariners' Safeco Field.

The innovative program is called the Nintendo Fan Network. For a fee, the network uploads a program onto the user's DS Lite and allows fans to order food and drinks, watch the live television feed of the game, access stats and scores and play trivia, all from the comfort of their seat -- whether it's a premium seat behind home plate or in the top row of the stadium.

"It's been a work in progress. Once we created the technology of the DS, we started looking at other applications to use its wireless features," said Nintendo corporate affairs manager J.C. Smith. "The program system became so popular ... so we sought other ways to make this a fun system for people to have."

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