At Nintendo’s New Museum, Classic Games Get Reinvented for Today

This communicative primitively appeared connected WIRED Japan and has been translated from Japanese.

Built successful 1969 successful Uji City, Kyoto, the Uji Kokura mill was primitively liable for the accumulation of toys. Now, much than fractional a period later, the mill has been reborn arsenic the Nintendo Museum. It volition unfastened to the nationalist connected October 2, 2024.

Nintendo has precocious unveiled details astir the caller museum. In summation to exhibiting products the institution has released successful the past—going each the mode backmost to its founding arsenic a playing paper institution successful 1889—the installation volition besides diagnostic interactive exhibits. There are 3 interactive sections, named “Learn,” “Experience,” and “Create and Play,” wherever visitors tin acquisition what it would beryllium similar if Nintendo's assorted products from its agelong past were created today, utilizing existent technology.

Reinventing Fun

The archetypal level of the depository is dominated by an grounds wherever you tin acquisition caller interactive content, recently created conscionable for the museum, that's based connected older Nintendo products. There's a elephantine mentation of a paper crippled based connected Hyakunin Isshu, a acceptable of 100 humanities Japanese poems, that takes implicit an full room. Players unfastened a dedicated app which reads aloud the archetypal verse of 1 of the poems. Then the players person to rotation astir the country wherever elephantine cards are scattered connected the level to find the corresponding paper that continues the poem they conscionable heard.

Visitors tin besides play humanities Nintendo location crippled consoles and their peripherals, arsenic good arsenic marque caller mini-games based connected toys released by Nintendo successful the 1960s, specified arsenic the Ultra Machine pitching instrumentality and the Ultra Hand, which featured a telescoping manus that could scope retired and grasp objects. They tin besides effort a caller mini-game based connected the Love Tester, which pretends to measurement whether 2 radical are romantically compatible.

Many of the mini-games connection experiences that disagree from the archetypal simply by changing the scale, specified arsenic Big Controller, successful which 2 radical play a console crippled utilizing elephantine versions of erstwhile hardware controllers. There's besides Game & Watch SP, successful which players power assorted titles from the Game & Watch bid of pocket-sized portable LCD games utilizing lone their shadows.

Visitors to the Nintendo Museum volition request “coins” to interact with each of these experience. Each idiosyncratic receives 10 coins upon entering the museum, and the fig of coins required varies depending connected the grounds oregon the mini-game. However, it is not imaginable to acquisition each the exhibits with conscionable 10 coins, truthful visitors volition person to prime and choose.