First thing I will address is that I realize this is a May finds thread; but out of all fairness some of this stuff is worthy of future insight (Campus Challenge Stuff) and it is not one month of finds but 6-8 months. Also I have not been posting in the monthly threads due to being busy at school (YAY! PITT) but never to busy to buy. So I hope you all forgive me, and we all can have a wonderful, eventful, and lucky sumer together. So here we go!!
Chavez II (cart/manual)
Very interesting in my opinion. I have never seen anything relating to this event before. Apparently, from what I can gather, after the great success of the Nintendo World Championship Nintendo decided to strike at the heart of videogames, the college demographic. Here trips and great prizes were given away after competitions.
Close up of Campus Pom-pom, Cup, Tattoos, and Metroid Magnet.
Close up of Yoshi's Island disks, SNES Ruler, and "Mario Mania" patches
All Campus Challenge items were recieved from an old Nintendo of America employee. Here we have an old German Nintendo Ad, Nintendo test cart, N64 Camera, N64 catalog, N64 tattoo, Black SNES cleaning cart (anyone have a complete one of these???)
Mario All Stars Shopping Bag
Mario Bros. Trash Can
NES Kirby's Adventure Store Display (rather large; DS game there for comparison)
Kirby N64 display (Also rather large; Ds game there for comparison)
N64 Bike radio, Old Nintendo Power Magazine holders, Mario Cake Pan (Girl Friend made it for my 21st Birthday!!)
This is a ton of promotional items from another old Nintendo Rep, alot of stuff pretty cool (Golden Eye key chain, Mario Tennis 64 key chain, N64 Launch day watch, etc)
Also all from nintendo rep
Nintendo patches, wind up toys, and zelda key chain
Gameboy,Gamecube, and Ngage demos
N64 games, and bananna N64 controller cover
Top Loader, Sonic Dolls, N64 system
Old Arcade promo items Nintendo Vs. Magnet, Some lemon guy (any ideas?), and an old old burger shaped Burgertime piece of gum
A set of N64 Hard, thick plastic advertising displays; You know the ones that used to go above the N64 display
Just got these this weekend; Nes games, Sega Games, Controllers, How to Win at NES Games book, NES system with old school stickers on it
Virtual Boy Games (Complete)
SNES tester
Game Gear Set
Virtual Boy Set
Well folks that is mostly everything that is interesting. You may be wondering why this is called "Happy Thread," well that is because there is a "Mike's Sad Thread" soon to come. I will give you a hint to the sadness, It involves my basement closet flooding. Sad...
But as for this stuff, please enjoy and give me insight to anything I may have had questions on.
Happy Gaming!!
Mike