The Official Nintendo World handbook in all its glory

by Kevin Kelly { Nov 4th 2006 at 2:00PM }

A very patient and hardworking soul at Kotaku has posted the entire 60 pages of the Nintendo World Handbook for your viewing pleasure. His scanner went belly-up on him, so he had to physically photograph each page and work the post up like that. Zoinks! Now that's some dedication. So if you missed Nintendo World, you can at least read the handbook. That is, if you read Japanese. Some of these images look like a travel brochure for a Utopian society that will brainwash you into wearing all white, but we're content just to look at the pretty pictures until our Wii arrives.

Speaking of which, how many mailmen, UPS delivery guys, FedEx dudes, and DHL grunts are going to get mugged on the way to people's doors that day? They'd better arm themselves with the Pen of a Thousand Truths, or some bear foam mace.

Tags: Handbook, Images, Japan, Nintendo, Wii, World

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

beef @ Nov 4th 2006 2:03PM

woot, first post

genpacker @ Nov 4th 2006 2:11PM

Between these Nintendo images and the Halo 3 images, does ANYONE have a scanner these days?

Huzzah!! @ Nov 4th 2006 2:11PM

@ 1- You're an idiot.

@ http://www.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/11/nw23.jpg - Theres a train simulator?!? Is it coming to the US? Why does japan get all the cool games??

BklynKid @ Nov 4th 2006 2:31PM

Why are they wearing hospital-white?

C.A. @ Nov 4th 2006 2:46PM

I so can't wait for SCADHAMMERS...

Nintendo_Fanboy @ Nov 4th 2006 3:36PM

lol train simulator I'm used to hearing it be a trainING simulator.

Charron @ Nov 4th 2006 3:52PM

Wait, is this the first mention of MSX in the Virtual Console? That's what the one image seems to imply (that MSX is on the VC), but did I simply miss it being announced some time ago? I know it's irrelevant to most of America, but still. First I heard about it.

GTG @ Nov 4th 2006 4:03PM

Those people look absolutely insane. Stark white is not so great as a scheme for people and rooms.

...and why do I suddenly feel like watching A Clockwork Orange?

Emperor Samoth @ Nov 4th 2006 4:16PM

Answer to #4: They're all wearing hospital white because people who spend $250 for what is essentially a Gamecube with a motion sensing TV remote must be mentally insane.

Spadge @ Nov 4th 2006 5:31PM

@Emperor Samoth

and anyone who spends $600 on a PlayStation with updated graphics is equally insane.

TwilightKnight @ Nov 4th 2006 6:03PM

Don't feed the SFBs.

Congrats to the poor sap that manually copied that entire handbook into his computer.

diskoboy @ Nov 4th 2006 9:39PM

Why do all the people in Nintendo's press releases and advertisements look so phony?

They all look like they should be in a mid-70's sears catalog - modeling the polyester leisure suits...

14 days left... :)

Sploog @ Nov 5th 2006 2:21AM

YAWN, the millionth promo of the usual 'people of all ages / gender / race with a wiimote in front of a camera'

GTG @ Nov 5th 2006 3:40AM

"...all ages / gender / race with a wiimote in front of a camera'"

That's kind of amusing because I was originally going to tack on a comment about "higher contrast" ranges of people missing from the photos. However, I assume(d) this particular photo spread is targeted at Japan only, so I figured that it was relatively "acceptable." I'm guessing they'll address that in U.S./European marketing materials.