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Attaxx is an arcade puzzle game from Leland corp. I recall seeing at many arcades in the 80s, but I never hear about it anymore. It had some awesome atmosphere and artwork (looks like you take on swamp thing😄) Its kind of like a creepy othello

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2021-03-31

Ad for Konami's underrated arcade Xexex - what an interesting name, but love that artwork!

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2021-03-17

The whimsical box and cartridge art for the original Japanese versions of Link's Awakening (1993) and Link's Awakening DX (1998)

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2020-10-15

The original Bros. manual has some really fun artwork. Check out Mario’s old-school swagger as he flings fireballs. And look at those eyes when he gets a Super Star!

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2020-09-13

OK Boomer..

"Never judge a warrior by his cover. Boomer is cute and a bit on the pink side. But on the inside, he's all fight."

Unfortunately the 1991 GB sequel for Boomer's Adventure was never released outside of Japan. Boomer's is known as Asmi-kun in Japan.

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2020-08-01

All the low-rez, yummy-colored images of official controllers found on Nintendo's Japanese website in 2000.

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2020-07-29

III spent 6045 days being a Japanese-only exclusive, from April 27th, 1990 until Nov 14th, 2006, when the 3D remake was released in North America.

The only way to experience the original version in other languages is with fan-translated ROMs.

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2020-07-26

A bit of trivia about 2(JP):

The lead coder, an Iranian-American, was forced to return to the US halfway through production due to an expired JP work visa. The dev team followed & finished the game from the the US. The same thing happened during FF3 too!

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2020-07-25

An assortment of rare Nintendo Pogs from 1995! Get your Slammers ready!

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2020-07-24

1988 Japanese Famicom Disk System promotional material for one of the best sports video game ever - Ice Hockey!

You're able to strategically pick the type of players on your team, but I always end up picking four big fat guys for their extra powerful shooting skills

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2020-07-23

In 1989 a floppy disk version of was released in Japan for the MSX2 computer and sold about 200,000 copies.

👁‍🗨

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2020-07-23

A tale of two manuals.

Who wore it better?

Left: A page from the 1988 Japanese Famicom "Rockman 2" manual
Right: Two pages from the 1989 "Mega Man 2" NES manual

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2020-07-22

The 1986 Famicom Disk System manual for is BEAUTIFUL and has really fun drawings of Simon Belmont all throughout. I combined some in one image for easy viewing.

The NES manual is a disgrace. Doesn't mention Simon's name or story, and has no pics of him.

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2020-07-20

The 1993 Famicom manual for "Kirby's Adventure" has some really awesome hand-colored sketches. The NES manual on the other hand has much more sanitized versions of same art (see for yourself in next tweet in this thread!)

Which style do you prefer?

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2020-07-17

Here is one more extremely rare Hi-C Fruit Drink collectible card from their 2002 Nintendo campaign. This time featuring with worthless tips on the back.

"Shouting Orange Tangerine drink gives the slightly shy Luigi something to shout about!"

👁‍🗨#RetroGaming https://t.co/SYwnpXKwUg

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2020-07-11

trading card from a 2002 Hi-C Fruit Drink campaign (USA). There's a few game tips on the back.

"Popping Pink Lemonade pops Peach into the air and lets her float over danger!"

Maybe almost lost to history, info online is rare: https://t.co/SIdYWSNJvg

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2020-07-10

"YES, we are finally on the world wide web. This is THE official site of SQUARE SOFT, INC." - September 1st, 1997

"At this site, we are going to provide you with exciting information and incredible graphics from upcoming and current games."

👁‍🗨

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2020-07-09

The original 1991 Japanese game manual was packed with really delightful color illustrations that were totally absent from the manuals in other regions.

Here's a few pages introducing some of Eggman's robots.

👁‍🗨

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2020-07-06

Unique magazine review art for the European release of Super Mario Bros. 3 in August 1991 (almost 3 years after it came out in Japan, and 18 months after NA). Some look based on Mario 2/USA.

Scored an overall rating of 98%.

Source: Mean Machines

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2020-07-03

Let's never forget that in 2005 and Co. were playable in a couple of great EA Sports games on the - NBA Street V3 and SSX On Tour.

In Japan, EA leaned into this heavily and renamed the games "NBA Street V3: Dunk with Mario" & "SSX On Tour with Mario"

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2020-07-03