Nintendo Shows Off Its History at Kyoto Cross Media Event

Lots of cool retro gear on display

by Damien McFerran Mon 5th Oct 2009

This weekend the Kyoto Cross Media Experience 2009 took place in - you guessed it - Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo was in attendance and had plenty of goodies for avid gamers to ogle at.

As well as showing off new games for the Wii and DS, the video game veteran had a massive display which illustrated the company's long and proud gaming history. Machines on show included the Famicom, Game Boy, Super Famicom and Game Boy Advance.

There's a massive photo gallery with images from the event here. Be sure to check it out!

[source nintendo.co.jp, via inside-games.jp]

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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V8_Ninja
Mon 5th Oct 2009

Nice! Hope they do something like this in the US.

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AVahne
Mon 5th Oct 2009

cool, i wanna get the Super Famicom someday, before they somehow cease to exist

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Aviator
Mon 5th Oct 2009

They did this is Australia down at Melbourne. Quite a hole really, but the history was good none the less.

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JustYourAverageBleh
Mon 5th Oct 2009

i envy japanese people

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Machu
Mon 5th Oct 2009

Awesome pictures thanks. That black Wii is so alluring, mmm.

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JayArr
Mon 5th Oct 2009

Japan has yellow DSi. They get all the good stuff.

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Starwolf_UK
Mon 5th Oct 2009

They really did a stellar job with the Gamecube set-up. Loads of games and peripherals. Though the small case size of the Gamecube games helps a lot...