I think press kits are nifty <3

143: Zelda OoT Skateboard/Scooter



I randomly found this at a Salvation Army today. Looks to be from the N64 era.  Whee!
 

Okay, that's the weirdest and best Nintendo item you could possibly find.

Some amazing things man but damn that scooter is sure neat. Any idea what/where it's from? Curious about the background of it

It was actually sold as a skateboard that had a scooter handlebar attachment...I haven't tried to take the handlebar off yet, so I'm not sure what the condition is underneath.  It's licensed and was made by a company called Sportsfun inc. I know senor Nightram from vgmm.com has at least a Zelda skateboard with a different design on the front...I can't paste links on here for some reason but if you just google 'zelda scooter' one of his videos pops up.

Holy hell - I've never EVER seen this...and I love it!

Amazing find!

Wow, so interesting, once again Otto thanks for sharing.

Your random bits o' collecting are always amazing and so interesting!

Wow. I could bust my ass with style.

Glad to see this thread pop up again!!

That's awesome!

*Insert back to the future scene here*

Just finished reading this from page 1. Thanks for sharing.

A boxed DSi dev unit for $80 wow that is crazy.

144: Dragon's Lair Demo Disc




I don't look for much anymore collectionwise, but finally came across this Dragon's Lair Demo after a year and a half. I'm pretty sure these were the only two store demos that were made for the Sega CD.

145: 1997 NMI National Meeting Binder



The coolest thing in this binder is the 'Lights On, Lights Out' presentation that shows tons of pictures of Retail Store setups and displays from 1997 (Mainly N64 and GBC).  There are a number of displays I have seen before, but there are a decent amount I've never seen anywhere else before.  There's few other sections as well regarding NMI practices, the top vendors of the time and random updates to policies.

146: Original Nintendo Merchandising Manual



This is the first (as far as I've seen) iteration of Nintendo's store merchandising manual.  Nintendo reps would leave these at local retail stores and fill them with various information such as system specs and information, newsletters, game stats and info, contact numbers, order forms and more in order to give store employees information to better handle and sell Nintendo brand products to customers.  They still have the program going to this day at all of their major accounts.  

147:  DS Nitro-IS-Writer



I'm assuming this is what's used to actual put the game onto the prototype cartridges, but I'm not too familiar with how dev items work.  This one seems harder to come across than the IS-Capture and -emulator systems, but doesn't look as fancy.

148: Dr. Mario, the Tootin' Animation



This is one of the best drawings I've had the pleasure of coming across.  From the information I was given, this is a concept drawing for the Dr. Mario commercial for the NES.  Unless I missed something, it never made it to the final run, but every time I look at it I can just imagine Nintendo executives sending letterhead to the production company stating 'Please cease and decist all attempts to have our company mascot run around with a deranged grin on his face while holding onto his posterior as poofs of toots escape from aformentioned posterior.'  I am scared to think of what lethal formula x-17 is composed of, but it doesn't look like it makes Mario very happy as it makes him sweat purple.  It came with a Certificate of Authenticity as well, but that's just from the gallery that was selling the piece.  I will need to frame this sometime in the near future.

I have this binder that I've been wondering a little about myself. I feel it may be in line with what you've got here but maybe not. It doesn't have the NMI on the top, and is copyrighted 1990. Haven't found out much on it yet, but the one you have really reminded me of it.  What are your thoughts on this one?  Same idea?  It was empty when I received it unfortunately, so it didn't have any order forms or catalogs in it. 

Does it have any dividers in it?  I'd kind of think maybe an event like E3, I know some of the binders I have use similar graphics, but some were for internal purposes and some were for the public.  Most of the CES ones were in flimsy binders though, not the hard ones like this.

There weren't any dividers in it at all. It was just a blank binder. Came with a Sourcebook binder that had stuff in it, but nothing in this one.

You know, that could be it.  I never paid much attention to sourcebooks, but the earliest one I remember seeing being physically called a 'Sourcebook' is 91 or 92.
 

Very cool piece!

149: Nintendo 2000 Press Kit


I haven't had a chance to check this one out too thoroughly, but it has press releases for a wide variety of games for the N64 and GameBoy.  Pokemon, Majora's Mask, Dinosaur Planet, DK 64, Perfect Dark and Conkers are a few of the titles represented.  The strangest thing I've noticed so far is that the press release for Conkers is actually a draft that says it was pending aproval from Nintendo before being released.  I'm not sure if that was just a goof on their part or was actually meant to be done like that...I'm assuming it was a goof by the way it reads.