Nintendo museum opens in Japanese department store

by Justin McElroy { Apr 3rd 2007 at 11:24AM }

Think you're a hardcore Nintendo fan? Prove it. Book a plane ticket to Osaka, Japan, then beat cheeks to the Hankyu Department Store to see its "Nintendo Museum" exhibit. Also, create a time machine, because it's over.

Don't have the cash for the plane ticket? On the outs with Doc Brown? Thankfully, 1UP was on hand to allow you to vicariously nerd out.

Checking out the piece may also help you build a little geek cred, too. The next time your buddy tries to impress the moderately cute girl in the Zelda T-shirt at Hot Topic by telling her that Nintendo started as a playing card company, imagine referencing "Chiritori, the remote-controlled mini-vacuum cleaner." Oooh ... sick burn.

Tags: museum, nintendo

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

32_Footsteps @ Apr 3rd 2007 11:41AM

That's either the best parody of a Nintendo anti-fan, or the worst anti-fan post ever. I can't tell.

I honestly keep hoping that Nintendo still publishes playing cards somewhere, just because it'd be neat to get a deck of Nintendo cards, which I'd probably keep on my shelf next to the Black Tiger Bycicle deck and the Optimus Prime deck.

32_Footsteps @ Apr 3rd 2007 11:43AM

Wow... and before I could get up my post making fun of the anti-fan post, it was deleted. Now that just looks strange. ;)

Justin McElroy @ Apr 3rd 2007 11:51AM

1. Wruh roh, I just had a problem with your use of that radically progressive slang terminology for homosexuals. Feel free to repost without it.

2. 32_Footsteps - For someone whose username is a reference to one of my favorite TMBG songs, I'm sorry if I dampened your day at all.

Love,

Justin

haywood jablomey @ Apr 3rd 2007 11:56AM

deparTment

Justin @ Apr 3rd 2007 12:05PM

I WANT!

fffunfarm06---xbl @ Apr 3rd 2007 12:18PM

32 footsteps why did the blogger have a problem with ur username? why did he delete ur comment? this more interesting than his topic...

Andrea @ Apr 3rd 2007 12:26PM

This summer. Ticket already taken :-)

32_Footsteps @ Apr 3rd 2007 12:52PM

Ah, it's always fun when someone recognizes my nom de jeu's origin. It's like an instant connection.

As for my posts, they weren't deleted. Wruh roh's original post was, but he (mostly) reposted it. Imagine if post #5 was moved to before my first post, and it all makes sense.

I know i's nearly impossible, but I'd love a deck of Nintendo cards. I imagine they stopped printing them decades ago, though.

NintendoFanbot @ Apr 3rd 2007 1:43PM

I heard Clubhouse Games has Hanufada included. If true that game is a must have.

Greg @ Apr 3rd 2007 1:59PM

While living in Japan a few years back, I managed to snag a deck of Nintendo playing cards from a local 7-Eleven. You can find Nintendo hanafuda decks pretty easily to this day.

32_Footsteps @ Apr 3rd 2007 2:12PM

Well, it has one game that uses hanafuda cards, NF. But it doesn't explain the rules of the game at all, and the AI is so criminally stupid that I end up winning against the computer 75% of the time without knowing what I'm doing. Either I'm secretly a hanafuda savant, or the game is so stupid that it's not worth playing. I'm suspecting the latter.

Rubang B @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:09PM

Or it has something to do with how many feathers are in your brand new Indian headdress.

The Chiritory vacuum is hilarious, and there's a minigame in the first GBA WarioWare in which you use it to suck up some crumpled up paper, and it's one of the 2 player minigames too.

Yoshi Likes Boys @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:18PM

The AI in CHG is suspect in a lot of games (chess included, it will ALWAYS do a queen for rook trade), but that doesn't keep it from being on the short list of best DS games ever, and hell, best VIDEO GAMES ever. If you get some multiplayer action going on that thing it's endless fun.