Nintendo’s long-awaited museum lastly opens to the general public quickly. The place is stuffed with many years of Nintendo historical past, starting from when the newly based firm made taking part in playing cards within the late 1800s all the way in which as much as its present smash hit console, the Swap. However maybe the very best a part of this museum is definitely its reward store, which is stuffed with a few of the coolest Nintendo merch I’ve seen in a very long time.
On October 2, after being introduced in 2022, the official Nintendo Museum opens. Good luck getting in, although, as tickets are bought out for the following two months. Nonetheless, what I’m actually enthusiastic about isn’t strolling by the writer’s lengthy historical past of Mario, Zelda, and Metroid video games; as a substitute, I wish to go on a buying spree within the museum’s reward store. GameWatch posted a plethora of photographs of the place on-line and it’s wild to look by. The store contains shirts, mugs, pens, and different objects based mostly on each Nintendo console. Sure, even the Digital Boy!
Did you ever assume to your self, “What I actually need is a espresso mug that includes the colours and brand of Nintnedo’s failed 3D handheld console, the Digital Boy”? Nicely, you reside an odd life, however fortunate you, Nintendo could make your (oddly particular) desires come true. There are additionally Wii U objects, too. Maybe the best issues I noticed are big pillows based mostly on completely different Nintendo controllers. Lastly, I can sleep on a large and fluffy N64 gamepad. I hope some (or most) of these things finds its method over to the Nintendo Retailer in NYC as a result of I’m frightened of what scalpers are going to cost for an SNES ballcap.
Listed here are a few of the coolest issues we noticed within the store, however do additionally take a look at GameWatch for much more photographs of all the things within the retailer, together with costs on a lot of these things and extra close-up pictures of tinier merchandise.