Nintendo's museum will be born: officially unveiled the Nintendo Museum

In a video posted these hours on YouTube, Nintendo showed off its newest project: the Nintendo Museum, a facility showcasing the history of the famous Japanese video game company, and which will be based in Kyoto, Japan.

The Nintendo Museum is located in Nintendo’s Uji Ogura factory and takes the place of the old Hanafuda playing card factory, the company’s first product when it was founded back in 1889, and will boast a Super Mario-themed area with tubes and cubes straight from the world of the heroic plumber.

During the presentation, Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of iconic video games such as Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda, took viewers inside the museum starting on the second floor: this is where video game consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System (or Famicom, as it is known in Japan with a different design from the Western one) and the Nintendo 64 are displayed, as well as the games themselves that have made the history of both the company and the video game industry. Above the shelves displaying the games are screens showing images of them, and visitors can hear the sounds and music through special speakers simply by standing underneath them. There is also space for screens showing the graphical evolution that Mario and Zelda games have gone through over the years and Nintendo products predating video games such as the Copilas photocopier or the Mamaberica baby stroller and different types of board games, as well as the company’s very first video game devices such as the Color TV-Game 6.

On the ground floor, Miyamoto showed the floor equipped with a screen with which one can interact to play a virtual version of the card game Hyakunin Isshu via a smart device provided by the museum. The ground floor, in fact, is all about the interactive experiences that the Nintendo Museum offers. Upon entering the museum, visitors are given an entrance pass loaded with digital coins to spend on the eight activities that can be found on the ground floor, of which Super Mario’s dad unveiled a few, including Zapper & Scope SP, a shooting gallery inspired by the Laser Clay that Nintendo popularized in bowling alleys in the 1970s, reinvented with modern technology and inspired by the world of Super Mario. The activity that will surely delight gamers is a room with giant versions of controllers from Nintendo’s consoles, from the NES to the Wii, with which they can play the company’s historic games in pairs. During the presentation, Miyamoto tried out a level of Super Mario Bros. with the help of a museum attendant.

The museum also offers opportunities to play with Hanafuda cards and even a workshop to make your own playing cards. A café where drinks and burgers can be had and a store selling exclusive items also complete the facility.

The presentation concluded with the announcement that the Nintendo Museum will open its doors on October 2 and the existence of an official website, which you can find here. While instead to see the presentation video yourself, you can click here.

Nintendo's museum will be born: officially unveiled the Nintendo Museum

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