So apparently very late in the development of the museum, we’re talking *days* before it opened, Nintendo put in a “Storage” exhibit on the 2nd floor; and this corner is dedicated to prototype Nintendo hardware. Literally gasped when I saw this exhibit and what was on display. It was filled with prototypes I had never seen nor heard of before. Sadly no pictures were allowed, so I scribbled down some notes; and drew approximations of what the prototypes looked like using my phone. Here is everything I saw:

One crazy cool detail about the history part of the museum is that all the staff are wearing earpieces with a direct line to a Nintendo history expert at NCL, who is on standby to answer ANY question that you might have (that can be realistically answered). I was asking all sorts of detailed questions about the pre-video game toys and cards, and the staff all relied these questions to NCL, who responded promptly and concisely.

I was incredibly lucky to be able to visit the Nintendo Museum on opening day. In this thread I’m going to try my best to explain just what it was like and show as much as I can🧵 Needless to say there is A LOT that I can cover. I literally spent seven straight hours in the museum, and even then I felt like I could have easily spent an entire extra day there and still not have seen everything the museum has to offer.

Spent my birthday at Universal Studios Japan’s Super Nintendo World. It succeeded in surpassing even my extremely high expectations, and truly is a realization of the dream of a “Nintendo Theme Park”. Area is relatively quite small, consisting mainly of an upper/lower level, two rides, a restaurant and two stores, but is inch for inch packed with more stuff to do and see then theme park arenas twice it’s size. I was there from 9:30 to 7:00, and still had stuff I wanted to do.