LINKS POTENTIALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK AS THERE MIGHT OCCUR PORN POPUPS, I plan on revising this later and am probably going to change the image uploader to tinypic. Please bear with it for the moment.
Over the course of several threads which might not look like it we saw quite a few interesting pictures related to Nintendo. Mostly related to concept art and early screenshots (you know the things that make you "Wow. This is how it looked like before?") there are also other very interesting insights on what the secret world of Nintendo looks like.
The reason for compiling a new thread for these pictures are:
1. Giving these pictures the attention they deserve. Searching for hours through the internet yielded quite few results regarding the pictures/booklets/information you are going to see in this thread, with the most interesting certainly being the "Nintendo Pamphlet" 2009 scanned and uploaded by mehdi_san, now to be seen here complete and in high resolution.
2. To have a place to collect all these kinds of information as there is no kind of database for these information yet. There is probably a lot of more of these things out there and there are surely quite a few Gaffers which might be able to contribute with some interviews they have bookmarked or pictures they saved.
Lets collect and share everything about those secrets!
Things I can think (there might be more) of which are to be included in this thread:
- Concept Art
- Early Screenshots
- scrapped Logo/hardware/case designs
- Pictures of Nintendo as a work place
- Interviews
- and whatever else comes to mind
Everybody is free to suggest new names for these categories. I am currently thinking about whether to include artwork or not, as it will probably be on of the biggest categories and could very fast turn into the problem that everyone is posting artwork they love without checking the 1000's of already posted ones. This could get slightly contra-productive. HOWEVER if you know of a certain rarely published artwork you would like to share you are free to post it as these things are still very interesting and possibly not well known enough.
Click the link if you are interested in what has been linked. The Pictures are supposed to be only an example of what you might find in the link.
Things we have so far:
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Nintendo Pamphlet:
year ????: originally posted by neo2046
year ????riginally posted (and scanned?) by Mister Hero
year 2009: originally scanned and posted by mehdi_san
high resolution: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/4706569/1/Nintendo Pamphlet 2009?h=0117a6&
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Nintendo World Handbook
year 2006
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Other Concept art/artwork
Mario & Donkey Concept Art:
Iwata Asks Zelda Design Documents:
Super Mario Strikers Concept Art:
Mario 64 unused item
Youtube Link
Pokemon Concept Art:
Metroid Concept Art:
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Interviews
*inserting Iwata asks later*
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Oh and if anyone is up for creating a banner for this thread, I'd take it when its finished
And as you all can see the OP is clearly not yet finished. And I probably won't update it further today as I need to do some other stuff. I guess I need to overthink the whole concept of this OP to as it clearly gets too long. I'll probably only link everything I am putting in the OP sooner or later.
There are a lot of gold coins to collect which might be interesting for this thread. There are other Nintendo World Handbooks, other Nintendo Pamphlets and thousands of interesting interviews. Lets get it all together
Over the course of several threads which might not look like it we saw quite a few interesting pictures related to Nintendo. Mostly related to concept art and early screenshots (you know the things that make you "Wow. This is how it looked like before?") there are also other very interesting insights on what the secret world of Nintendo looks like.
The reason for compiling a new thread for these pictures are:
1. Giving these pictures the attention they deserve. Searching for hours through the internet yielded quite few results regarding the pictures/booklets/information you are going to see in this thread, with the most interesting certainly being the "Nintendo Pamphlet" 2009 scanned and uploaded by mehdi_san, now to be seen here complete and in high resolution.
2. To have a place to collect all these kinds of information as there is no kind of database for these information yet. There is probably a lot of more of these things out there and there are surely quite a few Gaffers which might be able to contribute with some interviews they have bookmarked or pictures they saved.
Lets collect and share everything about those secrets!
Things I can think (there might be more) of which are to be included in this thread:
- Concept Art
- Early Screenshots
- scrapped Logo/hardware/case designs
- Pictures of Nintendo as a work place
- Interviews
- and whatever else comes to mind
Everybody is free to suggest new names for these categories. I am currently thinking about whether to include artwork or not, as it will probably be on of the biggest categories and could very fast turn into the problem that everyone is posting artwork they love without checking the 1000's of already posted ones. This could get slightly contra-productive. HOWEVER if you know of a certain rarely published artwork you would like to share you are free to post it as these things are still very interesting and possibly not well known enough.
Click the link if you are interested in what has been linked. The Pictures are supposed to be only an example of what you might find in the link.
Things we have so far:
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Nintendo Pamphlet:
A small book for the recruitment of new employees at Nintendo for this year. Every company here in Japan makes these kinds of pamphlets to attract universities students to apply for a job at their company. These things come out yearly and we would love to have them all gathered here. If anyone has one of those, please share it with us.
year ????: originally posted by neo2046
year ????riginally posted (and scanned?) by Mister Hero
year 2009: originally scanned and posted by mehdi_san
high resolution: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/4706569/1/Nintendo Pamphlet 2009?h=0117a6&
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Nintendo World Handbook
year 2006
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Other Concept art/artwork
Mario & Donkey Concept Art:
Iwata Asks Zelda Design Documents:
Super Mario Strikers Concept Art:
Mario 64 unused item
Youtube Link
Pokemon Concept Art:
Metroid Concept Art:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interviews
*inserting Iwata asks later*
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh and if anyone is up for creating a banner for this thread, I'd take it when its finished
And as you all can see the OP is clearly not yet finished. And I probably won't update it further today as I need to do some other stuff. I guess I need to overthink the whole concept of this OP to as it clearly gets too long. I'll probably only link everything I am putting in the OP sooner or later.
There are a lot of gold coins to collect which might be interesting for this thread. There are other Nintendo World Handbooks, other Nintendo Pamphlets and thousands of interesting interviews. Lets get it all together