The Nintendo Museum, which will allow visitors to review the history and entertainment offering of this technology company, will open its doors in Kyoto (Japan) on October 2.
Nintendo has announced a museum of its own that will allow visitors to learn about its history through the various products it has released over the years, from the flower-themed Hanafuda card game to its most recent gaming console, the Nintendo Switch.
The company was founded in 1889 as the manufacturer of the Hanafuda deck, which consists of 48 cards with designs inspired by the seasons of the year. A two-player version, Koi-koi, is featured in the 51 Worldwide Games collection of classic games for Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo also made other classic board games, but it was in the 1970s that it launched a number of electronic toys that paved the way for the arrival of consoles, first with the Color TV-Game systems, the Game & Watch handheld system, and platform arcade games. Success came with the cartridge-based Famicom console, also known as the NES.
The Nintendo Museum is located on the outskirts of Kyoto, in the Uji Ogura factory, where the company printed the Hanafuda cards and later carried out quality control of the Famicon consoles, as Shigeru Miyamoto, video game designer and producer, explained in the online presentation held this Tuesday.
It has been designed to be interactive, and to that end, visitors will be given ten coins to participate in games and activities. A café and a shop complete a tour full of references to the company and its most popular franchises that will open its doors to the public on October 2.