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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

OH BANANA! Had such a fun time charting the path of Nintendo's iconic primate with my buddy @theamazingcliff.bsky.social for @underconsolepod.bsky.social. I didn't have "make light entertainment from 115 poorly-xeroxed court papers" on my 2026 bingo card, and yet! shows.acast.com/underconsole...

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Cover & isolated character roster from the Japanese "Mario's Tennis" manual (Virtual Boy, 1995). Excluding Mario Kart, it is the first sports game with "Mario" in the title, & the ONLY sports game with the possessive "Mario's".

Cover art from Mario's Tennis, featuring the characters in tennis attire on a court, along with a large tennis ball with Mario's face.

Illustrations of Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Toad, Koopa and Donkey Kong Jr. wearing tennis attire and in various tennis playing poses except for Yoshi who is eating his racket and Toad who is asleep.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

@8bitbackissues.bsky.social 👋 Hi! Recently discovered the show and been listening back. Wanted to connect for a couple of things via DM! 📚

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Yamafuda - 山札 @yamafuda.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Publicité de la console Nintendo Color TV Game Racing 112 de 1978. 🕹️ #任天堂

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Folks who own collections of old games/consoles - do you track your collection electronically? If so, what do you use?

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Folks who own collections of old games/consoles - do you track your collection electronically? If so, what do you use?

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Surely I cannot be the only person who thought this when starting up DK Bananza... (🔊 sound on)

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Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Pauline has kept her signature dance move in Donkey Kong Bananza! From the arcade to Mario Odyssey to Donkey Kong Bananza!

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Pikachu, Chikorita and Piplup ride in a Pikachu-themed hot air balloon, from the european manual for PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure (Wii, 2009)

A hot air balloon shaped like Pikachu's head with a tail floats in a blue sky. In the basket is Piplup, Chikorita and a waving Pikachu.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Princess Peach attacks Lemmy Koopa as part of her escape plan, scanned from a 1992 comic by Kentaro Takekuma and Charlie Nozawa, as serialised in Nintendo Power and other international Nintendo Club magazines.

Princess Peach drops from the ceiling shouting "HAAAIII-YAH!" while positioning herself to kick a shocked Lemmy Koopa in the face.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Donkey Kong "stamp" graphic, isolated and cleaned up from the box art of the japanese Donkey Kong Jungle Beat bongo accessory & game bundle (GameCube, 2004)

A simplified single-colour graphic of Donkey Kong's head with a smiling face in the Rare design, inside a circle with a green background.

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Fryguy64: King of Rot @nindb.net · 29/04/2025

New updates on nindb.net! Want to know more about a bunch of Nintendo's electromechanical arcade games from the 1970s? How about an in-depth guide to Nintendo's Space Invaders knock-off Space Fever? Go oooon, give it a little click there. I worked really hard on 'em!

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NinDB: Information on First Party Nintendo Games

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Manual cover and "Profile" page from the Lylat Wars "big box" European manual (N64, 1997), known as Star Fox 64 outside of PAL regions. Unlike traditional N64 manuals, this version which came with the game & rumble pak is almost A4 in size and contains more full-colour pages.

The cover of the "big box" manual for Lylat Wars, featuring the games characters and arwing ship bursting out of a shield outline against a starry background.

A set of images and descriptive text for Fox McCloud, Slippy Toad, Peppy Hare, Falco Lombardi, ROB64, the Landmaster, the Arwing, and the Great Fox. The Submarine vehicle is also listed without an image, and the accompaying text says that "information about the weapons and the engine are not available yet"

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Here we go: a new article has gone up on my Scanline Artifacts site. Join me as I dig into the history of the Famicom Adapter, a lost and almost-forgotten piece of Nintendo hardware with a curious spin on backward compatibility.

scanlineartifacts.co.uk

The Nintendo Connection: Unraveling the Unreleased Famicom Adapter

Peeling back some tantalising details on the the Super Famicom Duo that never was.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

You're right! Unfortunately young man named Stefan had already marked the differences on the original, but I have recreated the image's pair for you here. Have fun!

Mario & Luigi panic while several large pipes emit a loud "BOOM" noise in a basement setting, while Princess Peach (plus an amused looking mouse) watch on from a safe distance

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Mario and Luigi attempting to fix the plumbing in the basement of Princess Peach's castle, taken from a "Spot the Difference" competition in the Number 3, 1991 issue of the official Swedish Nintendo Magazine.

Mario and Luigi panic as several large pipes emit a loud "BOOM" noise in a basement setting, while Princess Peach (and an amused looking mouse) watch from a safe distance.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy (NES, 1991) manual cover, inside art and instructions. Published by Codemasters in Europe and Camerica in the US, the game hardware used a "Plug Thru" system to avoid Nintendo licensing.

Manual cover for "The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy", showing Dizzy climbing a beanstalk into the clouds while dragons breathe fire and shoot arrows at him.

Dizzy removing "Excalibur the Sword" from a stone while holding a lamp akin to one that holds a genie. Meanwhile, he is watched by an ogre, a rat, a mean looking tree and a robed man with a white beard plays s flute.

Instructions for the Codemasters "Plug Thru" system which requires the game to be attached to any other licensed NES game before being inserted into the Game Deck.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Overhead render of Mario, Wario, Yoshi and Luigi from the inside cover of the Super Mario 64 DS (NDS, 2004) manual

An overhead view of Wario, Yoshi, Luigi, and Mario wearing a Wing Cap as they appear in Mario 64 DS. They are in a field with Mario 64 style pipes, trees, butterflies, a power up mushroom, and a red '?' block.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

High quality scan of Mario in a tornado from Super Mario Bros 3 (NES, 1988), taken from an official Swedish 1992 guide to NES games and accessories.

Super Mario Bros 3 artwork of Mario caught in a tornado.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Swedish A4 promotional flyer for RoboWarrior (NES, 1989) produced by Bergsala, Nintendo's distributor in the Nordics.

Promotional flyer for RoboWarrior, featuring explanatory text in Swedish, along with a large traced image of the robot from the box art, and the manual illustrations of the Gholem enemy, Life Vest, Super Bomb and Candle items.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Illustration of Mario & Toad foiling Bowser's theft of various NES games. Scanned from the January 1990 Swedish Club Nintendo leaflet ("Nintendo Videospelklubb") promoting the 1990 Nintendo Calendar. It's notable for using a Bowser design more like Miyamoto's original 1985 Super Mario Bros box art.

Mario and Toad, dressed like the classic "Batman and Robin", break down a door interrupting Bowser who has broken into a safe labelled "Mario's Game Box" and several black box NES games are strewn around. A classic design Koopa Paratroopa, Goomba Bloopa are also present, wearing burglar-style eye masks.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Officially licensed miniature plastic Famicom replicas containing notepads, manufactured by Banpresto in 2004. Five different cartridge variants were available: Super Mario Bros, Dr. Mario (both pictured), The Legend of Zelda, Ice Climber and Mario Bros. #famicomfriday

Two miniature Famicom replicas pictured next to an original controller for scale

Two miniature Famicom replicas, one opened to show the included notepad pages.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Joycard Sansui SSS controller (NES, 1989) created a stereo effect from the console's mono audio by momentarily amplifying the left or right channel through an inbuilt headphone port when the corresponding direction was pressed.

Box cover art for the Joycard Sansui SSS controller, featuring a photo of the controller with headphones plugged in, and the slogan "Another Dimension in Nintendo Fun!"

Manual scan of the Joycard Sansui SSS Controller, showing how to connect the audio cable and an overview of the controller's functions.

Photograph of the Joycard Sansui SSS controller, along with the audio and controller plugs.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The UK's first review of Super Mario Kart (SNES, 1993) appeared in the October 1992 edition of Nintendo Magazine System. It includes the following explanation of the controls, which implies that reviewer @jazrignall.bsky.social - like me - finds brakes to be completely optional.😅

A diagram of the control for Super Mario Kart on the SNES, which says that Y and X buttons do nothing, when in fact the Y button applies the brakes and the X button enables the rear-view.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Inlay cover for Konami's "Falsion" (Famicom Disk System 1987). It was one of only 7 games that supported Nintendo's "Famicom 3D System" active shutter glasses peripheral. #famicomfriday

A futuristic spaceship flies though a meteor field above a planet while shooting blue lazers at a strange alien craft.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Link using the "Tingle Tuner" to place bombs, scanned from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker manual (GameCube, 2003)

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Introduction double-page for Kirby's Pinball Land (Game Boy, 1993). It was the third Kirby game after Dream Land (Game Boy, 1992) and Adventure (NES, 1993). It was developed by HAL Laboratory, who also made the previous Game Boy pinball game "Revenge of the Gator" (1989).

Text reads: "Welcome to Kirby's Pinball Land !!! Kirby, your pudgy buddy from Dream Land, is back again on Game Boy! This time the game is pinball, and Kirby will have to face King Dedede and his bosses who guard the three Pinball Lands. In order to defeat King Dedede and his three bosses, Kirby must become a pinball. This allows him to fight effectively in the Pinball Lands - each a magical land with all kinds of tricks and bonuses! How high can you score? Can Kirby defeat King Dedede again? Let's find out! Okay Kirby, turn into a pinball and get ready for a wacky pinball battle!"

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

High resolution scan of the inlay for "Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic" (Famicom Disk System, 1987). Famously reworked as Super Mario Bros. 2 outside Japan, it was originally developed to promote "Yume Kōjō '87", an event sponsored by Fuji TV. See how many elements from Super Mario Bros 2 you can find…

Cover of "Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic", a 1987 Famicom Disk System game. The cover features various elements later made common in the Super Mario franchise, including shy guys, sniffers, Wart and Birdo.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Nintendo Adventure Books - a choose-your-own adventure/puzzle series - regularly featured Princess Toadstool's dad The Mushroom King. Book 6 "Doors to Doom" has this illustration of him alongside the others. For the purposes of the puzzle, this is meant to accurately show their relative heights.

Black and white illustrations of Luigi, Princess Toadstool, The Mushroom King, and Mario.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Last #FamicomFriday of the year, so here's "Dancing Mario" imitating the Saturday Night Fever dance moves. A humorous illustration from the manual of Family Basic V3 (Famicom, 1985) to illustrate the effect of an intentionality introduced movement bug using the Mario sprite in an example game.

Mario in classic (pre Super Mario Bros) form imitates the Saturday Night Fever dance next to a gramophone player. The text reads "fever" in Japanese.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Officially licensed holiday themed socks featuring sprites from Super Mario Bros. (NES, 1985) sold at H&M in 2020. Happy Holidays to all who celebrate!

A green sock featuring mushroom, fire flower, Mario and Luigi sprites from Super Mario Bros (NES) with additional decoration and the words "Happy Holidays!"

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Official Super Mario Bros. 3 talking alarm clock (Zeon, 1992). At the set time, the alarm sounds by saying "Wake up! It's time to leave Dreamland", followed by a shortened sample of the game's World 1 map music. The alarm can be snoozed by pressing a small red mushroom. (Audio recording in 🧵)

A photograph of the Super Mario Bros 3. Alarm clock standing in front of its box. The piece consists of a plastic statue of Mario stands next to a brown block with a small digital clock display.

Box art for the Super Mario Bros 3. alarm clock.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Famicom Friday! A4 promotional leaflet for the Famicom Data Recorder (1984), a tape deck which connects via audio leads to the Family Basic Keyboard so programs can be saved/loaded with regular audio cassettes. It also allows custom courses to be saved from Excitebike, Mach Rider & Wrecking Crew.

Promotional leaflet for the Famicom Data Recorder, showing it hooked up to a system with Family Basic cart, keyboard and a game shown on a TV. At the bottom there is a close-up of the Data Recorder along with the price of 9,800 yen

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The Legend of Zelda: Skywards Sword (Wii, 2011) Limited Edition contains a 25th anniversary CD of music from the series performed by an orchestra. The accompanying leaflet features staff photos including Koji Kondo (Music Supervisor), Shigeru Miyamoto (General Producer) and Eiji Aonuma (Producer)

An overhead photograph of staff stood in the shape of a triforce. At the front, Shigeru Miyamoto stands holding a Legend of Zelda sword and shield

A signed portrait of Koji Kondo, including a doodle of some musical notation, "Zelda 25th Anniversary" and a face.

A signed portrait of Shigeru Miyamoto, including a doodle of a triforce.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Promotional Wii Music harmonica (Wii, 2008). Likely a Club Nintendo reward, it's possibly one of the rarest items in my collection based on not being able to find any information on it! 😂

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"Twelve Tales Conker" was a cancelled N64 game. Originally a child-friendly collect-em-up, later retooled as "Conker's Bad Fur Day" (2001). Here's a full-page promo from a Swedish N64 leaflet. I've also provided a translation, and put the screenshots in-thread at the highest resolution I can. [1/3]

Full-page promotion for the unreleased "Twelve Tales Conker" game for the N64.

A translation of the piece, text reads:

"Twelve Tales Conker

When Rare and Nintendo make a game together, it can only mean one thing: Another fantastic adventure awaits whoever acquires Twelve Tales Conker.

Meet the two curious squirrels Conker and Berri who set out on an exciting journey of discovery. The dangerous popcorn mine is just one of the many destinations that the two animals will encounter.

They will also be able to time-travel to distant places where no human has ever set foot. To help them, there is the clever owl Knowit who - amongt other things - gives them various items so they can make their way through the fantasy landscapes. Unicycles, umbrellas and nut-catapults are just some of the gear which can be used.

Playing Twelve Tales Conker is like stepping straight into a cartoon. You will encounter places and creatures that you thought were only possible in the imagination.

Join the two squirrels on an adventure you will never forget."

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Famicom Friday! How about Nintendo's first foray into 3D gaming? Here's the instruction leaflet for the Famicom 3D System (1987): active shutter glasses for full-colour 3D in compatible games.

Leaflet with illustrations of the Famicom 3D System, an explanation of how the 3D effect works, and a diagram to help with connecting it up to the Famicom.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Registration card/sticker included in rhythm game Donkey Konga (GameCube, 2004) to promote Nintendo's VIP 24:7 loyalty programme.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii, 2010) shipped with a carboard sleeve, the front of which was covered in a specially printed felt-like material to mimic the in-game world. (It's kind of hard to scan a tactile experience, so hopefully the photo gives you an idea!)

The regular case for Kiby's Epic Yarn (left) next to the game's specially printed cardboard sleeve (right)

Scan of the felt cover of Kirby's Epic Yarn

Close up of the corner of the felt cover, better captuing the texture of the specially printed cover

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Whoops. Missed Famicom Friday so let's do, uhhh, Star Fox Saturday? Here's a full scan of page 23 of the UK Super Nintendo "Starwing" manual (SNES, 1993) featung the four Arwings flying in formation.

Four "Arwing" combat space ships from the Starfox franchise flying downwards in formation against a starry backdrop.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

To bring Game & Watch to Sweden, local Nintendo distributor Bergsala would create & include translated versions of the game manual, often on single sheets of paper. Here's a high quality scan of the A4 translated manual for Boxing Micro vs System (1984).

A Boxing Micro vs System with original manual and translated Swedish manual on an A4 sheet of paper.

The front of the Swedish instructions A4 page for Boxing Micro vs System.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Did you know that the NES came to Sweden a year before the rest of Europe? Or that a cancelled flight meant we almost got a straight PAL version of the Famicom instead? I had the pleasure of joining @underconsolepod.bsky.social to tell one of the few English versions of the Bergsala story!

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Double-page from the manual of Super Mario Bros 3 (NES, 1990) to highlight new techniques available compared to the previous games in the series.

Illustrations of Mario carrying/kicking a shell, flying, sliding down a slope and using his tail attack to dispatch enemies, smash blocks, and retrieve items from question-mark boxes.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Game & Watch vertical Multi-Screens (1982–1989) included this small 85x56mm slip of paper warning about the dangers of disassembly & damage.

Text reads: "Warning. Game & Watch is a precision instrument. Do not attempt to take it apart. Be especially careful of part in circle. Do not stick with sharp instruments or damage in any way. It can cause breakdown". Message is accompanied with a cartoon image of a person nervously disassembling a unit, as well as an illustration of a multi-screen unit with the hinge ribbon cable circled.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

High resolution scan of Link from the 1990 UK Club Nintendo Classic feature on Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES, 1988).

Illustration of Link on one knee holding a sword, superimposed on the "Magical Sword" artwork used on the box for Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Official illustrations of the different babies Yoshi can carry in Yoshi's Island DS (NDS, 2006), each of which grants a unique ability. Baby Bowser (breathe fire), Baby DK (climb/swing on vines & DK dash attack), Baby Peach (floating) and Baby Wario (attract metal)

Baby Bowser breathing fire standing on a yellow Yoshi

Baby DK swinging on a vine, while atop a red yoshi

Baby Peach holding an open parasol, sitting on a pink Yoshi doing a flutter jump

Baby Wario holding a large magnet which is attracting three coins, sitting on a light blue Yoshi

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Famicom Friday! Here's a high res-scan of the inlay cover for Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally (Famicom Disk System, 1988), on which Luigi has an extra finger. 😲 #famicomfriday

Mario and Luigi wearing helmets driving a dune buggy style vehicle across a desert-style terrain. Mario is steering while Luigi holds a map and points forwards with a hand that has 5 fingers and a thumb.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Crossbow and controller setup for "Link's Crossbow Training" (Wii, 2007), which was the pack-in game for the Wii Zapper accessory.

Image of the in-game crossbow, which mimics the construction of the real-life Wii Zapper accessory

An image of the Wii remote and Nunchuck controllers seated in the Wii Zapper accessory, along with labels describing the in-game functionality of various buttons, sticks and sensors.

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"Walk with Me! Do you know your walking routine?" (DS, 2008, aka "Personal Trainer: Walking" outside Europe) is a gamified exercise experience. Shipping with 2 pedometers & an infrared receiver built into the game card, it was the only DS game with Miis as playable characters released outside Japan.

"Walk with me!" pedometer on top of the game case.

Excerpt from the "Walk with Me!" manual, detailing how to use the included pedometer to "measure your life rhythm".

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Original Nintendo Scans @tamagon64.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Drawing of Koopa Troopas transporting a Thwomp, taken from the Limited Edition Super Mario Maker art & inspiration book (WiiU, 2015). The Koopas' shells are numbered 2,9,5,8. Inputting this code in-game unlocks info about how & why the team made "weird and useful" sound effects available to players.

Freehand style illustration of three Koopa Troopas straining as they pull a rope which is tied around a Thwomp. A fourth Koopa Troopa appears to have lost grip on the rope and is falling backwards with a surprised expression.

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