Mark
Boris Johnson: Cuddly Conservative
You'll have to forgive me for my laziness, I'm just copying and pasting this from what I typed in another forum.
I appologuise for the poor quality of the pictures, my digital camera doesn't like cold/light/taking photographs.
Me and my girlfriend have just got back from Manhattan, and have a look at some of the things you can buy in Nintendo World, the former Pokémon Center.
As soon as you walk in, you're greeted by this class cabinet with DS's coated in Schwortzi (typo) Crystal. All of them were $499, bar the pawprint one which was $599. The people working there said that there was originally 3 DS's in each row, so they've sold quite a few. The prices weren't that bad compared to simular items, like a Hello Kitty Purse for $2000 in the same style.
This one was $499. There were no price labels on any of them, and to be honest the reason is damn clear.
This one was a genuinely considered purchase, but we couldn't (read: I had to talk her out of) spending $599 on a DS. Very nice, though.
Now, this is something. A prototype of the NES that to be honest I'd never heard of, called the Nintendo Advance System. It was only ever shown the once at an expo or a conference in Las Vegas in 1984/85 I believe, and had a lightgun, joystick and two wireless pads, along with a diskdrive and keyboard. Note the lack of the Nintendo-style D-Pads.
Closer view of the pads.
Here's a Game Boy that was damaged in the Gulf War, and still somehow works enough to play Tetris.
We ended up taking back plenty of games, bags, hats, t-shirts, wrapping paper and nik-naks from here, and it was really a great place to be. Sorry for the lack of actual store pictures, but they're even worse than these.
I appologuise for the poor quality of the pictures, my digital camera doesn't like cold/light/taking photographs.
Me and my girlfriend have just got back from Manhattan, and have a look at some of the things you can buy in Nintendo World, the former Pokémon Center.
As soon as you walk in, you're greeted by this class cabinet with DS's coated in Schwortzi (typo) Crystal. All of them were $499, bar the pawprint one which was $599. The people working there said that there was originally 3 DS's in each row, so they've sold quite a few. The prices weren't that bad compared to simular items, like a Hello Kitty Purse for $2000 in the same style.
This one was $499. There were no price labels on any of them, and to be honest the reason is damn clear.
This one was a genuinely considered purchase, but we couldn't (read: I had to talk her out of) spending $599 on a DS. Very nice, though.
Now, this is something. A prototype of the NES that to be honest I'd never heard of, called the Nintendo Advance System. It was only ever shown the once at an expo or a conference in Las Vegas in 1984/85 I believe, and had a lightgun, joystick and two wireless pads, along with a diskdrive and keyboard. Note the lack of the Nintendo-style D-Pads.
Closer view of the pads.
Here's a Game Boy that was damaged in the Gulf War, and still somehow works enough to play Tetris.
We ended up taking back plenty of games, bags, hats, t-shirts, wrapping paper and nik-naks from here, and it was really a great place to be. Sorry for the lack of actual store pictures, but they're even worse than these.
lucky bitch...
