As part of Nintendo's celebration of the original release of The Legend of Zelda 30 years ago in 1986, the company is posting a series of features on its Japanese site, the latest of which gives a tantalising glimpse into one of the most interesting rooms in its Kyoto HQ.
Packed with mint and boxed Famicom consoles, Disk System units and the all-important old-school CRT television, this room is sure to be of interest to really obsessive Nintendo followers. Heck, there's even a Famicom Disk System Writer kiosk in one corner - these allowed people to write new games to their existing disks for a reduced fee.
While Zelda was released in North America on a physical cartridge, in Japan it made its debut on the Famicom Disk System. This was part of Nintendo's drive to encourage people to buy the add-on unit by tempting them with exclusive games.
Just imagine being let loose in that room. Just imagine.
Thanks to Benson for the tip!
[source kotaku.com, via topics.nintendo.co.jp]
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I don't know what to do with myself if I was in there.
Nice!
Fantastic! I wish a had a few of these items
@The_Dude_Abides id buy every unit if i could i love dreamcast.
@The_Dude_Abides The dreamcast was such a great but mismarketed system. Fighting game heaven.
Ah yes, the history of Nintendo back when they let people copy and share ROM's and such... We didn't start the fire.
I'd love to be let loose inside NoJ looking for early versions of games and things never released. I'd particularly love to get my hands on the early versions of Super Mario World when it was more similar to Mario 3...
I'm sure NOA has a room like this as well.......
If I were to enter that room, I wouldn't be seen for days.
Now to go in there and search for the unsold finished copies of Starfox 2!
@The_Dude_Abides rip
That's probably a place I could die and not be sad at all.
They probably placed Iwata's casket in that room, right next to the Famicom disk writer machine.
Nice to see so many boxed units. Makes me feel better about my own tendencies toward acquiring hardware I don't need. I really like the old Famicom box design.
Meanwhile on the other side of that room behind that camera... boxed NX units!
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