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Nintendo’s shiny new museum needs more dirt

A link to the past.

There are those original playing cards with their beautiful floral imagery, of course, but also all kinds of products during what Nintendo retroactively calls its “age of exploration.” A quick glance shows a company trying lots of ideas to find what works: there are Disney-branded board games from the ’50s, and walkie-talkies and RC cars from the ’60s. There’s a section dedicated to the Virtual Boy — attendees can stick their face into a wall-mounted headset to get the full black-and-red 3D experience — and the Wii U area is as big as the other console exhibits. Not just Miyamoto, but also the likes of Takashi Tezuka, Yoshiaki Koizumi, and Shiro Mouri of Super Mario fame; The Legend of Zelda ’s Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi; Animal Crossing director Aya Kyogoku; and longtime Kirby developers Shinya Kumazaki and Tatsuya Kamiyama.

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