Old School (Pre-Famicom) Nintendo Stuff: Help Needed!

[play-airz]

In the 90's a uk magazine had a History of Nintendo feature, I recently scanned it. It's shows a couple of the old Nintendo toys.   http://play-airz.blogspot.com/2011/02/history-of-nintendo-part1-nms.html

[senseiman]

Hey thanks for posting that, interesting!  The shooting game on there is very similar to mine.

[UglyJoe]

The book I got my info from is available here: http://pixnlovepublishing.com/nextreleases/page1.html.  It has pics and info on all or most of the pre-Famicom Nintendo merch.

[manuel]

Wow, that looks like an amazing book!
Ordered it! 

[UglyJoe]

Yeah, it's a really good book.  Definitely gonna order their next two books once they get translated.

[senseiman]

That does look like a cool book.

Now I know what to ask for my birthday!

[lkermel]

Yo !

I have some pictures of these toys on an article I wrote a long time ago about the Nintendo Museum in Osaka :

http://www.videogameden.com/article.htm?osaka

Here're a couple of games similar to the one with the cheetah (top/right corner):
http://www.videogameden.com/articles/osaka/osaka_04.jpg

The Nintendo book from Pix'n Love is incredible, Florent Gorges did an AMAZING work ! And he's got more volumes on the way !!

[senseiman]

Nice article about the Nintendo Museum there, I hadn't noticed that on your site before! 

[donkeyking64]

I recently stumbled upon this forum and think you may be interested to know that I have just started a blog on Nintendo's toys and games from the pre-famicom days.

http://blog.beforemario.com/

The first post covers the various light-guns and targets: http://blog.beforemario.com/2011/02/light-gun-games-kousenjuu-sp-and.html

Would love to hear what you think about it, and what other topics or items you would like to see covered.