This 1960s Home Race (ホームレース) game is one of Nintendo’s rarest vintage toys. After more than 20 years of searching, I finally added it to the collection last December. Full story on the blog.

Yes! Vintage Nintendo No. 100 deck.

Working on the next blog post(s)

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Rare vintage game Nintendo Baseball Board just sold for 46,000円; okay price even though box in pretty rouigh shape

A lot with 23 sealed Super Mario World Barcode Battler decks, in original shipping boxes, just sold for 62,000円

Nintendo Playing Cards catalogue from 2001

One of my favorite Game Boy's: the Mother 3 edition GBA Micro

Every Nintendo game automatically become twice the fun with a Koji Kondo sound track...

I received the very rare Nintendo Home Race game this week, and it is in absolute great condition - never been played with Until now! Please witness its first race, 60 years after it left the Nintendo factory...

Nintendo 64DD in the rare retail box version, just sold for 450.000 yen

A rare Nintendo Computer TV Game from 1980 just sold for ¥801,000 on Yahoo Auctions Japan (a little over US$4500). Condition unused, but without the cardboard outer box.

Something you don't see every day: a shipping box with 5 mint Virtual Boys! Spotted on Yahoo Auctions, bids starting at a hopeful 440,000円

New addition to the BeforeMario collection... Vintage Nintendo playing cards from late 1950s / early 1960s, with amazing cool design

Who coined "Metroidvania"? It wasn't @jparish.bsky.social, and he'll be the first to tell you. Besides, there are far more interesting questions, like: How did it spread? Evolve? And what's it got to do with rickrolling? Watch til the end for a post-credits sting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...

Flashback to October 2024... Would love to visit the Nintendo Museum again in the future Maybe in 2026?

Yesterday a fierce bidding war ensued over this rare 1960s Nintendo tank race game, called "Home Race" (ホームレース). Final price ¥251,000. It was only the third copy that surfaced in over 20 years.

I have scanned and uploaded the extremely rare Nintendo company guide from 2000: archive.org/details/nint... This is my first attempt at archiving my collection so I expect the quality will improve as my process does

The flip side of this (real silver!) medal features the familiar N&B Block playing boy, who is also shown on various boxes and a instruction booklet. Did you know that this was the son of Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi?

Very happy to add this to the Before Mario collection: 1960s silver medal "N&B Block Nintendo" Comes in a small Paulownia box, similar to one used for hanafuda cards Presumably a prize in a competition, but backstory still unknown

Had a lot of fun with this build; it's very well designed (as was the original! 🙂) #LEGO #GAMEBOY

Holo Hanafuda (ホロの花札) for Nintendo Switch, special edition with dedicated card set

BANANA!

Today was a nice opportunity to get an instant 3 out of 5 new-in-box Nintendo Color TV Game collection (if you were willing to fork out some yen): Color TV Game 6, Block Kuzushi & Racing 112

Bonus throwback 1998

Tokyo Throwback 1998 Shibuya crossing Akihabara

Tokyo Throwback 2004 Pokemon Center Madarake Galaxy Yoyogi Park

TIMELESS

Reposting this because today #nintendo #virtualboy

Nintendo DS lite x Bathing Ape

Pre WW2 set of Nintendo ”Mountain of Flowers" (花の山) hanafuda playing cards

Unused pack of pre WW2 Nintendo "sunrise" hanafuda (日の出)

I want to introduce a new piece of Nintendo memorabilia in my collection. This is a pre-WW2 Nintendo piece that came from a company HQ, likely the Marufukuro location. I bought it at auction on Mercari. I didn't quite know what it was when I bought it, except that it was pre-War.

Well well

Finally found a yellow Nintendo Unirack unit, after 20+ years of searching Somehow, these are much rarer than blue and orange ones

amiibo collection +7 Over the last 2-3 years I have thought that we got the last one several times, but still no end in sight

It's tempting.... Mario Kart blow-up toy, unused in box (currently on Mercari for ¥38,100)

Nintendo playing card sample book from 1960s, just sold for ¥51,001

Just wrapped up the 7-part report on our Nintendo Pilgrimage in Kyoto in October 2024: Stay at Marufukuru ✅ Nintendo Museum visit #1 ✅ Meeting legends ✅ Nintendo Museum visit #2 ✅ Big Wii-mote cushion ✅ Honoring a legend ✅ Super Nintendo World ✅ All here: blog.beforemario.com/2025/05/a-ni...

Rare 1970s Nintendo Laser Clay Rifle just sold for 150,000円

Interesting historic artifact: (empty) box for Broderbund game Raid on Bungeling Bay (バンゲリングベイ), distributed as arcade game in Japan by Nintendo

Menu options at Super Nintendo World, Universal Studios Japan

Part 5 of the trip report of an unforgettable week in Kyoto now posted on the Before Mario blog #nintendo blog.beforemario.com/2025/06/a-ni...

Just published Parts 3 & 4 of my travel report from an unbelievable week in Nintendo’s hometown, Kyoto! Highlights include giant controllers, making hanafuda, and hands-on exhibits at the new Nintendo Museum. Full story now at blog.beforemario.com/2025/06/a-ni... #Nintendo #Kyoto #BeforeMario

Four Nintendo Game & Watch Table Top games, in complete but used condition, just sold for 1,400,777円 combined... That's around US$ 10K (checks home insurance)

Riding the waves 🏄‍♂️💹

Taking a tour... Let's Go!

It's time for another one of those How it started, How it is going posts #nintendo

A day late, but still, hurray!

Now also games in the house, but still no sign of the actual Switch 2 ... (Did any of the NL folks here receive the delivery from MyNintendo store?)