We feel a bit sorry for some PR people we have to deal with. This is because we call them multiple times every day to beg them for stuff. This is usually only a blight on those working at Sega and Nintendo – the rest we just hide from when we've written something funny they decide not to understand...
Anyway, we feel that even our powers of blag will fail in our quest to get hold of the pack of cards pictured here. You see, a pack of cards may sound like small potatoes, though let us explain. If you're a Nintendo fan, we recommend locking the door, undoing your pants and closing the curtains.
The cards are manufactured in 99.9% pure gold by Mitsubishi Materials of Japan. They are true to a century old Nintendo design, back when the Kyoto firm specialised in playing card manufacture, before tin and plastic toys and of course, long before Mario's creator's father even had a little red twinkle in his eye.
Each card measures 58mm by 89mm and is 7 microns thick, comprising 0.73 grammes of gold. Each set will include 54 cards (all standard cards and two jokers) and will feature some kind of high-end laminate to protect them, the details of which our flaky Japanese failed us on.
Speaking of which, the machine translation of the press release is something we simply had to share with you. “With the golden shuffle which threatens in the fingertip as the treasure which generation after generation is succeeded as the superb article which colors the space: The gorgeous world is produced!”
The bad news is that at the current price for gold you'll need about $3,586 before you'll be making a purchase, though it was noted that the asking price will fluctuate in line with gold prices. Mitsubishi Materials expects sales of 50 packs a year - not bad, all things considered.
Anyway, we feel that even our powers of blag will fail in our quest to get hold of the pack of cards pictured here. You see, a pack of cards may sound like small potatoes, though let us explain. If you're a Nintendo fan, we recommend locking the door, undoing your pants and closing the curtains.
The cards are manufactured in 99.9% pure gold by Mitsubishi Materials of Japan. They are true to a century old Nintendo design, back when the Kyoto firm specialised in playing card manufacture, before tin and plastic toys and of course, long before Mario's creator's father even had a little red twinkle in his eye.
Each card measures 58mm by 89mm and is 7 microns thick, comprising 0.73 grammes of gold. Each set will include 54 cards (all standard cards and two jokers) and will feature some kind of high-end laminate to protect them, the details of which our flaky Japanese failed us on.
Speaking of which, the machine translation of the press release is something we simply had to share with you. “With the golden shuffle which threatens in the fingertip as the treasure which generation after generation is succeeded as the superb article which colors the space: The gorgeous world is produced!”
The bad news is that at the current price for gold you'll need about $3,586 before you'll be making a purchase, though it was noted that the asking price will fluctuate in line with gold prices. Mitsubishi Materials expects sales of 50 packs a year - not bad, all things considered.
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Joji 4 Jan 2006 15:05
1/6
Damn nice deck for the gamer or card shark. I'd like to see some of these (but normal) Nintendo playing cards available to buy. Do they still make them or not? If so where can I get some?
DoctorDee 4 Jan 2006 16:07
2/6
Joji wrote:
Do they still make them or not? If so where can I get some?
No, they don't (I think)... but... try these
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majin dboy 4 Jan 2006 16:32
3/6
how is that in anyway related to nintendo?
i want some nintendo cards.
had a poker match last nite,invited my girlfriend,first match and she beat all my mates.not very happy.
i want some nintendo cards.
had a poker match last nite,invited my girlfriend,first match and she beat all my mates.not very happy.
LUPOS 4 Jan 2006 16:37
4/6
majin dboy wrote:
how is that in anyway related to nintendo?
before they made video games they used to make card games and such many years ago. im sure they manufactured regular playign cards as well.
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SPInGSPOnG 4 Jan 2006 16:40
5/6
majin dboy wrote:
she beat all my mates.not very happy.
Some people would enjoy that.
TigerUppercut 4 Jan 2006 17:43
6/6
LUPOS wrote:
majin dboy wrote:
how is that in anyway related to nintendo?
before they made video games they used to make card games and such many years ago. im sure they manufactured regular playign cards as well.
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Nintendo began life just over 100 years ago manufacturing standard playing cards for export (as seen in the piece above) and Japanese card cages and mahjong piece etc for its domestic market. The cards in the piece are replicas of the standard Nintendo deck. Nintendo then went on to manufacture tin toys in the 30s, robots, spaceships etc, then plastic toys for export and domestic in the late 60s. It made cards throughout this time. Many of Nintendo's toys were interactive - that was the USP it used and used will. One a remember well was a plastic baseball pitching machine with matching bat... At the end of the 70s it discovered videogames and that was that, though Hiroshi Yamouchi is on record in the 60s talking of computer entertainment being the future.
It's an interesting point that Nintendo's current fortune is due in part to a card game it released in the late 1990s!