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He’s had enough of being Number 2.

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Happy birthday little Billy!

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We were playing Mario Kart 64 last night and the guy in first got a blue shell

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My local Toys R Us got an entire Nintendo section. Couldn’t not get the squids

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This is the Super Nintendo Lifecycle 9XS Exertainment Exercise Bike.

Good luck remembering all that…

Back in the day you could find these in local gyms. The idea was to let the user pick how to spend their time while exercising by giving them the option between watching exercise videos, TV, or playing Super Nintendo!

With controls on the bars of the bike, the player could feel like they were part of the game. There were two games made to be used with the bike: Exertainment Mountain Bike, and Speed Racer. If you’re lucky enough to find of of the cartridges that include both games, you’ll have one of the rarest and most valuable Super Nintendo games in existence.

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The Virtual Boy is one of Nintendo’s lesser known systems. In short, it was a gaming system that released right before the N64 did. It is similar to a virtual reality head set. The only color it could produce onscreen was red. It was created by the same person that invented the Gameboy, Yokoi Gunpey. There are very few games for it and even fewer that are worth playing.

Part of the problem in the design of the Virtual Boy is that it had to played while hunched over at a table making it awkward and uncomfortable to play. Tighe Lory decided to do something about that. He custom built, and wired his own Virtual Boy arcade cabinet! It has the head unit on an adjustable fixture and has replaced the controller with buttons that you’d expect on an arcade cabinet. Over all it looks very well built and more convenient to play.

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You mentioned that your getting close to finishing your Wii U collection. I was wondering what games do you have left to collect?

It’s actually finished now :)

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So I’m trying to set up my apt for a gamer lifestyle and I just gotta know where on Earth did you get that N64 end table?!

You can find them on Etsy. I had to get the glass from a local shop though.

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Excuse me, I wanted to ask how you made those Portrait Ghost replicas for your Halloween display in your game room.

I found the pictures on Google and resized them in photoshop. They were really blurry though. If you’re familiar with photoshop, you’ll see that the game developers actually used photoshop filters on each picture for the game to get unique textures. I ran the same filters over the pictures once they were resized, and that sharpened them up enough to work.

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Can you actually squirt milk from your eye and if so does it hurt? I can breathe through my ear and eye but I've never tried it with a liquid

I can actually. If the air is coming out your ear, I wouldn’t try the liquid. I’ve accidentally pushed water to my ear trying to practice and it’s extremely painful.

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Do you have any other information on the Atlus game boy pocket? I am looking to buy one but can’t find very much info on it. Thanks

No idea how old this message is so sorry if it’s not relevant anymore. It was given to the developers of a game at Atlus as a thank you from Nintendo. I don’t remember which game off hand, but when I was doing the research, I saw there were only something like 6-12 people who worked on the game. 7 comes to mind. It was also given to celebrities as a gift. I don’t know why or how many. You’ll need to translate this, but here’s a page that should be helpful:

https://www.mandarake.co.jp/information/2008/11/21/21gcs14/index.html

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Huge disappointment  

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That last one took me a minute but it’s hilarious.

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Virtual boy problems

r0ck3r-10

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This may be the rarest N64 variant out there. ANA is a Japanese Airline that is unique in the fact that they paint some of their airplanes with Pokemon themes, raffled off Game Boy’s to passengers and are responsible for this rare N64.

There is little information about these but they are believed to have either been playable inflight and sold off after the N64’s had run their course or more likely, the ANA console was given out in an airline lottery in Japan much like what they did with their Game Boys.

The system came packaged in a normal Japanese N64 box, with the only real difference being this has the airline’s “ANA” logo printed on the expansion cover.

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I’ve covered this once before but thought I’d talk about it again since I’ve gotten more followers.

This is the Didget, yet another great example how inventive Nintendo is. The Didget is a blood glucose monitoring system that plugs into the Nintendo DS. It helps kids with diabetes stay on top of checking their glucose levels by giving them an incentive. The Didget comes with a game called Knock E’m Downs, an turned based RPG. While the game goes in the DS slot, the Didget fits into the Game Boy Advance port and the two work off of each other. Testing regularly will unlock points that can be redeemed for new characters, mini-games, costumes, and more.

The technology is now owned by Bayer, but was originally thought up by Paul Wessel when he noticed how his son would always loose his glucose meter but somehow always knew where his Game Boy was. Weasel pitched the idea to Nintendo and as a result they released the first version of the Didget: The Glucoboy. The Glucoboy was originally released in Australia and is best known as being the single rarest attachment for the Game Boy Advance.