“Nintendo” is now a household name. Most people’s impressions of it are achievements in the field of video games. However, before the earlier period, Nintendo did not make its fortune related to video games at first, and even in the first few decades. Selling products that have nothing to do with video games. A foreign collector is keen to research and collect Nintendo products from various well-known IP Mario, but a recent unboxing of his has brought a little disappointment.
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Collector Unpacks 70 Years Old Nintendo Playing Cards, Tragic…
Before Nintendo became a serious gaming mogul, the company had a very long history of making fun toys, although Nintendo enthusiasts may have heard of the “Love Tester” (1969) or “Ultra Hand” (The Big Hand, introduced in 1966), but few people know how extensive Nintendo’s involvement in this period was, and it also laid the foundation for today’s Nintendo. Nintendo is one of the oldest companies in the Japanese game industry. It was founded in 1889 and spent most of its first 75 years producing Japanese flower cards and Western-style playing cards.
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Collector Erik Voskuil has created a collection of old Nintendo products called “
Before Mario” website and also wrote a book of the same name. He recently got his hands on two boxes of playing cards from Nintendo 70 years ago, printed entirely in English and beautifully printed with the theme of 1950s Kyoto. The reason why I wanted to collect this set of cards is not only because of the careful printing design, but also the strong connection between Nintendo and Kyoto (Kyoto is the hometown of Nintendo). Show the features and attractions of Kyoto to foreign tourists.
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Geisha, Sanjo Bridge and Kinkakuji are printed on the front of the box, and the main gate of Heian Shrine is on the back. Both the card and the printing on the box are in English, which is obviously aimed at tourists. A sample card is affixed to the outside of the box, showing the card form inside for those who buy the deck.
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After opening the outer box, the cards inside are still in their original sealed state, with a tax stamp on the envelope. The time of dilemma has come! Now that they’re still sealed, Erik Voskuil is hesitant to unpack them, or leave them as they are, which of course is best from a value standpoint, but unpacking can really look at the graphics on the cards. So after some thought, he decided to unpack it.
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Next, the time for tragedy has come. When he carefully opened the sealed package, he found that all the cards inside had been fused together because they had been folded together for too long. This may be because the printing ink sticks all the cards together in a hot and humid environment. The cards that were supposed to be separate have now become a valuable “paper brick”. These playing cards were released without the plastic cards that are now common, so they were all made of paper, which was relatively more fragile, simply tried to bend it to loosen the ink, only to find that the structure in the card risked tearing, opening it The same goes for the other package.
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Erik Voskuil received quite a few suggestions for solutions, including putting it in the refrigerator for a while, or putting the reference stamps in a moisture-proof box when they got wet, but he felt that the playing cards were likely to stick together forever, so he decided to Don’t touch it yet, look at the sample cards on the cover to stop the itch, but he still continues to seek opinions from all walks of life, hoping to one day separate the whole card cards.
