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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.

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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

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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.

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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.😅

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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

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

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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).

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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 🧵)

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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.

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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)

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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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"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]

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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.

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

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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!)

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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.

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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).

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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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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.

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

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

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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)

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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

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

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"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.

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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.

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Sticker sheet included with Wario Land: The Shake Dimension (Wii, 2008) for players to customise various empty scenes found throughout the game's manual.

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