As part of a series of a series of posts celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda series, Nintendo Japan released some pictures from inside its closet full of Famicoms and its add-on, the Famicom Disk Systems. The latter could be used to play floppy disk games that could be rewritten using store-based "Disk Writer" kiosks in Japan (see last picture below). This expansion was discontinued after 3 years following the ease of piracy of these floppy disks and the advent of innovations increasing the memory capacity of regular cartridges.

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They even did an unboxing to show that they're not just for show:

All in mint condition!​

And to prove that they actually do work, they booted this on a retro CRT TV, evoking even more nostalgic memories:

Just like old times!​

We didn't even know Nintendo had such storage rooms with these goodies and now a lot (if not all) of us will dream to get into one of them. And we can't help but wonder what's out of shot or what other rooms are hiding...

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[Captain_N]

i have know about the nintendo store room as a kid in the 90's. One issue of nintendo power said that nintendo has a room where they store every copy of nes games there is. Its like an archive room. at the time of the article the snes was still new. im assuming they continued that trend.
Oh ans old console are still easy to find. They are all put up online. Clicking on the add to cart button is easier then having to look at goodwill. Its the price that's the problem. Whats not easy to find is a snes copier called a Super Wildcard DX2.....

 

[Deleted User]

Nintendo angering their fans by showing off?

 

[Boureds_Kitty!]

*Drools* Kitty want's to be in that room...
Kitty could have lots of fun there....

 

[pas7680]

Why?

Because the rubber belts disintegrate after about 10 years and need replacing.

 

[mashers]

Because the rubber belts disintegrate after about 10 years and need replacing.

So maybe they replaced them?

Also I don't know if the Famicom DS floppy drive is different to other floppy drive mechanisms, but I have working floppy drives from other systems which are much older than 10 years.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Wow it's so nice to see Famicoms in their boxes and in literally new condition. Such a treat! It'd be cool if they have a SNES-PS1 somewhere and could speak about it but suppose because of legal reasons they cant (Sony).

 

[JacobVR]

My body is ready. I need a new RD game

 

[Condarkness]

I think I'm in dream world right now....