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Very happy to add this to the Before Mario collection:

1960s silver medal "N&B Block Nintendo"

Comes in a small Paulownia box, similar to one used for hanafuda cards

Presumably a prize in a competition, but backstory still unknown

They did a great job recreating this in bricks. Love the prints as well. My only complaint is the bad quality control for the brick color - many shades of grey unfortunately.

Jump!

Had a lot of fun with this build; it's very well designed (as was the original! 🙂)

#LEGO #GAMEBOY

Holo Hanafuda (ホロの花札) for Nintendo Switch, special edition with dedicated card set

BANANA!

Today was a nice opportunity to get an instant 3 out of 5 new-in-box Nintendo Color TV Game collection (if you were willing to fork out some yen): Color TV Game 6, Block Kuzushi & Racing 112

Bonus throwback 1998

Tokyo Throwback 1998

Shibuya crossing
Akihabara

YouTube video by Tokyo Weekender Meet the Rock 'n' Rollers of Harajuku: The Strangers | Tokyo Weekender

Yes, Harajuku entry of Yoyogi Park. Every Sunday it's rock-n-roll time.

youtu.be/GoBc5fVXFFs

Tokyo Throwback 2004

Pokemon Center
Madarake Galaxy
Yoyogi Park

also: in 2025 "no battery" mentioned in English

Lol! 😂

TIMELESS

Reposting this because today

#nintendo #virtualboy

Left!

Nintendo DS lite x Bathing Ape

Pre WW2 set of Nintendo ”Mountain of Flowers" (花の山) hanafuda playing cards

Unused pack of pre WW2 Nintendo "sunrise" hanafuda (日の出)

I want to introduce a new piece of Nintendo memorabilia in my collection. This is a pre-WW2 Nintendo piece that came from a company HQ, likely the Marufukuro location. I bought it at auction on Mercari. I didn't quite know what it was when I bought it, except that it was pre-War.

Possibly used to identify the name of the departments in the building in the past

Very nice find!

Well well

Finally found a yellow Nintendo Unirack unit, after 20+ years of searching

Somehow, these are much rarer than blue and orange ones

amiibo collection +7

Over the last 2-3 years I have thought that we got the last one several times, but still no end in sight

It's tempting....

Mario Kart blow-up toy, unused in box (currently on Mercari for ¥38,100)

Nintendo playing card sample book from 1960s, just sold for ¥51,001

Just wrapped up the 7-part report on our Nintendo Pilgrimage in Kyoto in October 2024:

Stay at Marufukuru ✅
Nintendo Museum visit #1 ✅
Meeting legends ✅
Nintendo Museum visit #2 ✅
Big Wii-mote cushion ✅
Honoring a legend ✅
Super Nintendo World ✅

All here: blog.beforemario.com/2025/05/a-ni...

Two others have been sold in recent years, and one is on display at the Nintendo Museum; all in all very rare...

Rare 1970s Nintendo Laser Clay Rifle just sold for 150,000円