Visit the Nintendo World store (NYC), see NES proto-hardware

[fennec fox]

http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?p=1359664

Sorry to post topics from other forums, but I thought people here would be interested. The Nintendo Store in NYC (formerly the Pokemon Center) has a very large display of old Nintendo stuff, including tons of limited-edition GBAs, the "burned to a crisp but still runs" Game Boy shown in Nintendo Power, and the complete line of Nintendo AVS stuff, including a keyboard, 2600-style joystick, and a wacky light gun.

The store has a big opening event tomorrow, but it's open right now. Check it out if you're nearby.

[Kejoriv]

Very cool pics. Thanks for the pics. I am heading the NYC this summer and I will defintely check out the Nintendo store.

[Ed Oscuro]

Hmm, awesome! Now 10000000% more people will be aware of the (original?) AES's existance!

[CartCollector]

AVS, Ed.

Nice pics! The AVS looks so cool... Sad that Nintendo had to go with the VCR look. If only the retailers woul have noticed the beauty of it. Anyway, the control pads look painful, so it's good Nintendo revised that.

[TheRedEye]

They had that same SP display at GDC, it was neat!

[Roi]

Damn nice!

[jajaja]

Nice stuff! :) I love to see unreleased NES stuff.

[PC-Famicom64]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

[TheRedEye]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!

[PC-Famicom64]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

[portnoyd]

Coming soon to tristate news on Saturday night:

"Professional Idiot, Dave 'portnoyd' Warmington was arrested on Saturday afternoon for attempting to steal display items from the Nintendo World Store. After using a brick to smash the glass, he proceeded to grab the equipment and dash out the store screaming 'OMGRARE' and 'MINEMINEMINEMINE' until he was beaten to a pulp by several large security guards."

[TheRedEye]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!

[Ninja Blacksox]

I will be visiting this place in June.

It looks fantastic.

Thanks for the link!

-A Boy

[Dr. Morbis]

Coming soon to tristate news on Saturday night:

"Professional Idiot, Dave 'portnoyd' Warmington was arrested on Saturday afternoon for attempting to steal display items from the Nintendo World Store. After using a brick to smash the glass, he proceeded to grab the equipment and dash out the store screaming 'OMGRARE' and 'MINEMINEMINEMINE' until he was beaten to a pulp by several large security guards."
That's the first thing I was thinking: what's the security like around all that proto hardware? Maybe I should enroll myself in a catburglery 101 course and take a vacation to NY...

[PC-Famicom64]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!Now B.B.B is Un-Liesons'd , And Nintendo dose not (C) Tume Raider .

[delafro]

Definite thanks for the link. That's some very interesting history there. Overall, I'd have to say that I like the design of the AVS... very slick.

[Promophile]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!Now B.B.B is Un-Liesons'd , And Nintendo dose not (C) Tume Raider .

Out of curiosity how old are you?


And as for the AVS, very cool. Besides that the Gulf War gameboy is probally the most valuable display, oddly enough.

P.S. I'm waiting for screenshots of it to spread with people mistaking it for the Revolution.

[PC-Famicom64]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!Now B.B.B is Un-Liesons'd , And Nintendo dose not (C) Tume Raider .

Out of curiosity how old are you?


And as for the AVS, very cool. Besides that the Gulf War gameboy is probally the most valuable display, oddly enough.

P.S. I'm waiting for screenshots of it to spread with people mistaking it for the Revolution.15,Sorry It's just that most of you ar Adults.

[Richter]

sweet

holy hannah, those are some terrible AVS/NES controllers
x.x

wonder how responsive that d-pad is though

[Milk]

The controllers look like something out of a new wave video. They're almost cute, in an ugly kind of way. Hmmm...new pick up line...

[Bluteg]

The AVS looks like a grey tape recorder.

I wonder how much that would sell for on ebay?

[Julio III]

Wow! Awesome pics. Original AVS, tape recorder and a flight stick? Those controllers are wierd. That Gulf War GameBoy sure looks nicer than most of those GBA revisions! I wonder what else the Nintendo World Store has to offer?

[GarrettCRW]

If you guys had read the thread, you'd know that Nintendo doesn't have an AVS on display-that's the original concept for the Famicom Disk System in the US, which obviously would have stolen a page from Starpath's infamous Supercharger.

[dojosky]

that burnt Gameboy was on display at Nintendo of America in Redmond, WA ... I stopped by the NOA headquarters in Redmond, WA few years ago the farthest I could get in there was the Lobby :( and that display space along with some merchandise you can purchase such as shirts etc ... also saw pokemon PT crusiers outside in their parking Lot... it was really a nice place and very funny that they are so close to Microsoft !!! LOL just on the opposite side from them (bridge over the freeway)...

[portnoyd]

I wonder how much that would sell for on ebay?

When asking DreamTR how much he would trade for the AVS equipment, his only response was 'everything'.

That'll give you a good idea.

[syd]

That thing looks awesome! If that is a top loading design I'd have that over the NES anyday! I'd stick with the controllers they redesigned though.

[kainemaxwell]

How about we stick to ONE topic on the Nintendo Store, shall we?

[Roi]

How about we stick to ONE topic on the Nintendo Store, shall we?

I agree.

[SuperNES]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!Now B.B.B is Un-Liesons'd , And Nintendo dose not (C) Tume Raider .

holy crap, you beleived him? LOL nothing personal, but i'm 13 and i've seen 5-year-olds with better spelling.

anyways, that gameboy is'nt that bad. i imagined a huge bubbling monstrosity that looked nothing like a gameboy at all.

Edit: forgot the laughing smileys and the on-topic-ness.

[TheRedEye]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!Now B.B.B is Un-Liesons'd , And Nintendo dose not (C) Tume Raider .

Yeah but my friend's dad works for nintendo and he showed me super mario brothers five. they made it for the NES but didn't release it because they've been waiting for the 20th anniversary celebration. they should be showing it at E3. they couldn't get any of the new lord of the ring guys to help so they got Ralph Bakshi instead.

[PC-Famicom64]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!Now B.B.B is Un-Liesons'd , And Nintendo dose not (C) Tume Raider .

Yeah but my friend's dad works for nintendo and he showed me super mario brothers five. they made it for the NES but didn't release it because they've been waiting for the 20th anniversary celebration. they should be showing it at E3. they couldn't get any of the new lord of the ring guys to help so they got Ralph Bakshi instead.Stop bein a Lier! :angry:

[CartCollector]

There just joking! Don't take it too seriously.
Anyway, on the topic of the burnt GameBoy...
Let's see a PSP take that!

[Jive3D]

I was on my way TO the Nintendo Store TODAY! But I got sidetracked when I bought a bonsai tree and I didnt want to lug to midtown with the bonsai in tote.

I'm totally hitting this place up tomorrow if it's open!

The AVS images blew me away! I thought I had seen it all (as far as N history is concerned.)

[Jasoco]

There are so many mispelled words in this thread and 99% of them are in PC-Famicom's posts. LEARN TO SPELL, DUDE! School! Go to School! Pay attention! You are 15 and it's like you never went to grade school! @_@

So, does anyone know if they only have every color of GBA SP on display? Or do they have all the other system color variations? Now THAT would be a sight to see. And the main reason I'd go to one. Just for a museum of everything Nintendo. I may play all systems, but I'm a Nintendo guy at heart.

[kainemaxwell]

The place was definitly over-crowded but it was a nice little side trip to see where Nintendo came from.

One my friends was joking about going in there and wanting to buy a PSP to see what'd happen. LOL

[portnoyd]

The store was near total waste of fucking time. The display cases were nice, but the rest was Cubes, DS, and GBAs set up for play. Zzzzzz.

We did get a free shirt, 4 bottles of Nintendo World store water, 2 nice bags, and with $5, every gift card. We also picked up a Hori GBA Player controller each as well.

[kainemaxwell]

http://photobucket.com/albums/y188/kainemaxwell/nintendo_world/

Took pictures, most them didn't come out as well as I hoped thanks to the over-crowding. The girl in pic "Dscf0011.jpg" is a friend of mine, and pic "Dscf0028.jpg" has the 2 pins I bought and the free swag my friends and I picked up.

[Aussie2B]

Well, I just got back from the grand opening of Nintendo World. It was great fun, but we got there a bit late (it was close to 4), so by the time we got out of the store everything was being cleaned up outside. It was pretty crazy outside, tons of people and no order to the madness. Unless there was somebody there earlier that I don't know of, I think Nintendo's idea of a "celebrity" was a guy dressed up as Mario. :P I wish I could've got my picture taken with him, but he was gone when I got back outside and I think they were charging for it anyway. The Pikachu car was there, along with various "Who are you?" vans and such. There were lots of competitions going on out there, and there was a huge line of people waiting to get stuff downloaded into their Pokemon Emerald/Fire Red/Leaf Green and Pokemon Dash games.

So yeah, we avoided this insanity and got in the half-avenue long line to get into the store. It was a good thing we did too because I think they cut off the line for the day shortly after we got on it. We were waiting for at least a good 30 minutes, but it wasn't so bad because we had a steady stream of free goodies being handed out and we were laughing for a good while after we saw a fat, middle-aged man dressed up like James from Team Rocket (which I should point out was the ONLY fan we saw in cosplay).

So we finally got in and saw a lot of GBA and SP stuff downstairs. Tons of display units to try and a wall of for big-screen playing. There was a pretty cool little circle-shaped lounge, and there were kids playing the Pokemon card game and such. The coolest thing about the first floor was the Legend of Zelda SP signed by Miyamoto. Since none of us are Pokemaniacs, we quickly went upstairs. First thing I went to was the display case where I saw the AVS NES, the Gulf War Game Boy playing Tetris, the "history of Game Boy" display, the NES and Famicom, the Hanafuda cards, and all the other nifty stuff. Then I wandered around looking at the merchandise and games, and there were a ton of GameCube display units with people playing Smash Bros. Finally, we went over to the "vibrating chairs", and I played some Mario Kart: Double Dash. I'm amazed that they have so many full versions of GameCube games (along with some videos of a few games) all on ONE GameCube disc. o_O The screens they had were beautiful too, and the egg-shaped chairs were spiffy. I didn't do so great playing, but it didn't help that some little Asian toddler was walking back and forth in front of my screen, tripping on my controller's cord. :/ His mom just couldn't keep him in line; he was doing the same thing when my boyfriend was playing F-Zero GX, which caused he to say to the kid "You fucking idiot!", haha. Despite the kid screwing him up at first, my boyfriend was doing quite well, and he got a little crowd around him and when he was done this dorky kid told him "WOW! You're amazing!" :P

So that was about it. We were thinking of buying some stuff (my boyfriend wanted to get me the "I am Samus" shirt), but since we're broke, we ultimately decided not to. His brother got a skull cap and a DS case, though.

The most interesting thing about the event was that there were these Japanese men in suits standing around. I guess they sent some Nintendo bigwigs to size up how the event went.

Here's a photo of the freebies we got, sans one of our Mario pins:

http://www.inverteddungeon.com/triacesuperfan/nintendoworldfreebies.jpg

I also saw a lot of people with little Pikachu balloon thingies on a stick, but I never got one. :( I never found anyone giving out the Donkey Kong pin either. Where the heck were they? I guess I failed at Nintendo's "Gotta get 'em all!" thing. :( But if anyone has a spare Donkey Kong and needs a Pikachu or Mario, I'll trade with ya. :P

My boyfriend's bro took some photos at the event, so if I can get ahold of them (and if they're worth posting), I'll try to get them up.

[Ed Oscuro]

How about we stick to ONE topic on the Nintendo Store, shall we?
But...the Nintendo Store is all-encompassing, in its three-system lineup, you see. So much to discuss!

[calthaer]

Hahaha...I saw that fat, middle-aged guy dressed like the Team Rocket guy, too. I was like...man, someone is way too serious about Pokemon.

I waited in the Mystic Ticket line, though, because those things just don't come around every day. Very interesting, but...somehow I was expecting...more?

[Cmosfm]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!Now B.B.B is Un-Liesons'd , And Nintendo dose not (C) Tume Raider .

Yeah but my friend's dad works for nintendo and he showed me super mario brothers five. they made it for the NES but didn't release it because they've been waiting for the 20th anniversary celebration. they should be showing it at E3. they couldn't get any of the new lord of the ring guys to help so they got Ralph Bakshi instead.Stop bein a Lier! :angry:

I don't like you so much PC, I dislike you so very very much. I have nothing else to contribute other than stating the fact that you really really annoy the living crap outta me.

An no I ar not bein sarcastick.

[PC-Famicom64]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!Now B.B.B is Un-Liesons'd , And Nintendo dose not (C) Tume Raider .

Yeah but my friend's dad works for nintendo and he showed me super mario brothers five. they made it for the NES but didn't release it because they've been waiting for the 20th anniversary celebration. they should be showing it at E3. they couldn't get any of the new lord of the ring guys to help so they got Ralph Bakshi instead.Stop bein a Lier! :angry:

I don't like you so much PC, I dislike you so very very much. I have nothing else to contribute other than stating the fact that you really really annoy the living crap outta me.

An no I ar not bein sarcastick.Plese don't hate me. :puppydogeyes:

[Cmosfm]

Tell The Person : Do ther sell NES stuff like The Top Loader NES ?

Yeah dude. They turned on their NES making machine and decided to make a few more just for the store!Thanks .

P.S:Ar you bein Sarcastick?

No, seriously! The NES Making Machine had some trouble running after all these years, but then they put in the Lara Croft nude code and pretty soon the Nintendo making technicians were up to their necks in toploaders and copies of bubble bath babes!Now B.B.B is Un-Liesons'd , And Nintendo dose not (C) Tume Raider .

Yeah but my friend's dad works for nintendo and he showed me super mario brothers five. they made it for the NES but didn't release it because they've been waiting for the 20th anniversary celebration. they should be showing it at E3. they couldn't get any of the new lord of the ring guys to help so they got Ralph Bakshi instead.Stop bein a Lier! :angry:

I don't like you so much PC, I dislike you so very very much. I have nothing else to contribute other than stating the fact that you really really annoy the living crap outta me.

An no I ar not bein sarcastick.Plese don't hate me. :puppydogeyes:

I don't hate you, I'm just upset that you were right, and that Nintendo really is going to start selling Top Loaders at the Nintendo store. I hear they are also gonna sell Famicoms and make working AVS's for sale.

Also they'll sell Sega stuff too.

[ubersaurus]

The store was near total waste of fucking time. The display cases were nice, but the rest was Cubes, DS, and GBAs set up for play. Zzzzzz.

We did get a free shirt, 4 bottles of Nintendo World store water, 2 nice bags, and with $5, every gift card. We also picked up a Hori GBA Player controller each as well.

Is that the SNES looking controller? How much was it?

[Jasoco]

I don't hate you, I'm just upset that you were right, and that Nintendo really is going to start selling Top Loaders at the Nintendo store. I hear they are also gonna sell Famicoms and make working AVS's for sale.

Also they'll sell Sega stuff too.Oh, now U ar bein sarcastick!

It's a shame schools are forcing kids to graduate to the next grade without even being literate. What happened? Seriously. It's "PC-Famicom" over here and "sega saturn x" over at AtariAge. I'd swear they were both the same person. I know a 15 year old who knows more than I do. There's no reason you should be so terrible at the English language. Even people in other countries who don't speak English as their first language can spell the words correctly. Even if the words are rearranged. And no I ar not a lier.

[LocalH]

I don't think it's so much that people are dumb, but that they think for some reason that IM-speak is acceptable on a message forum.

[Jasoco]

Funny, I've never seen a real IM chat where people talked like that. Those are genuine spelling errors.

[LocalH]

Funny, I've never seen a real IM chat where people talked like that. Those are genuine spelling errors.
Well, by "IM-speak" I also include misspellings that they know about but don't care to fix - it would seem more appropriate to not care in an IM, as opposed to a forum post where it's stored for everyone to read. I know a guy who writes like this on forums, although he's not stupid in the least.

[PC-Famicom64]

I don't hate you, I'm just upset that you were right, and that Nintendo really is going to start selling Top Loaders at the Nintendo store. I hear they are also gonna sell Famicoms and make working AVS's for sale.

Also they'll sell Sega stuff too.Oh, now U ar bein sarcastick!

It's a shame schools are forcing kids to graduate to the next grade without even being literate. What happened? Seriously. It's "PC-Famicom" over here and "sega saturn x" over at AtariAge. I'd swear they were both the same person. I know a 15 year old who knows more than I do. There's no reason you should be so terrible at the English language. Even people in other countries who don't speak English as their first language can spell the words correctly. Even if the words are rearranged. And no I ar not a lier.No'p,Never hurd of sega saturn x. O_O

[PC-Famicom64]

I don't hate you, I'm just upset that you were right, and that Nintendo really is going to start selling Top Loaders at the Nintendo store. I hear they are also gonna sell Famicoms and make working AVS's for sale.

Also they'll sell Sega stuff too.Oh, now U ar bein sarcastick!

It's a shame schools are forcing kids to graduate to the next grade without even being literate. What happened? Seriously. It's "PC-Famicom" over here and "sega saturn x" over at AtariAge. I'd swear they were both the same person. I know a 15 year old who knows more than I do. There's no reason you should be so terrible at the English language. Even people in other countries who don't speak English as their first language can spell the words correctly. Even if the words are rearranged. And no I ar not a lier.No'p,Never hurd of sega saturn x. O_O

[machine.slave]

How much do you want to be the NES in the glass case has a blinky-screen? :D

[Teo]

http://www.inverteddungeon.com/triacesuperfan/nintendoworldfreebies.jpg


Ultra rare Nintendo spring water yes!

[kainemaxwell]

I gotta find my Pichu card...