What's your favourite promo/marketing video game display item?
Hi everyone.
Just wanted to find out what your favorite video game promotional/marketing sales display item is?
For me, it's the Nintendo M1-4 display unit - yes the image below does not include it's display stand. NES has strong nostalgia for me as it was my first console, and i love the sci-fi/80s feel i get when seeing it.
https://i.imgur.com/fOMCE9f.png
Just wanted to find out what your favorite video game promotional/marketing sales display item is?
For me, it's the Nintendo M1-4 display unit - yes the image below does not include it's display stand. NES has strong nostalgia for me as it was my first console, and i love the sci-fi/80s feel i get when seeing it.
https://i.imgur.com/fOMCE9f.png
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I feel like I would get lost with a collection like that
Feels like an opportunity to express how much I like signs and some of them in my collection. Nintendo just knocked it out of the park in the good old days. I have collected just about all I want for signs/displays. Very content and very grateful to have the opportunity to preserve this history and have it on display.
Your room. Good lord! This is fantastic! I want my room to look like this when I grow up!
Also really love the Xenoblade standee cuz the games the shiiiit!
I only have 4 displays & the Lunar 2 display is probably my favorite!
Wow SCG impressive collection
I feel like I would get lost with a collection like that
Thank you. I often just stand in the room staring off into space. Thinking how I could maybe cram just one more thing into it. Then 30 minutes pass and I forget what I was doing. :-)
I just now noticed the Kaybee sign! That brings back so many memories for me!
Me as well!! It came from the Kay-Bee in Susquehanna Valley Mall in Shamokin Dam, PA. It was supposed to go to the trash compactor when KB closed but an employee stuck it in his parents attic.....And so it sat for 20 years.
I just now noticed the Kaybee sign! That brings back so many memories for me!
Me as well!! It came from the Kay-Bee in Susquehanna Valley Mall in Shamokin Dam, PA. It was supposed to go to the trash compactor when KB closed but an employee stuck it in his parents attic.....And so it sat for 20 years.
Very freaking cool! How dod you stumble upon it? Kaybee was never a standalone store, right? I always remember seeing it inside malls, at least here in AZ.
Feels like an opportunity to express how much I like signs and some of them in my collection. Nintendo just knocked it out of the park in the good old days. I have collected just about all I want for signs/displays. Very content and very grateful to have the opportunity to preserve this history and have it on display.
Very nice! I hope you have a halon fire suppression system!
I just now noticed the Kaybee sign! That brings back so many memories for me!
Me as well!! It came from the Kay-Bee in Susquehanna Valley Mall in Shamokin Dam, PA. It was supposed to go to the trash compactor when KB closed but an employee stuck it in his parents attic.....And so it sat for 20 years.
Very freaking cool! How dod you stumble upon it? Kaybee was never a standalone store, right? I always remember seeing it inside malls, at least here in AZ.
A guy got it from the person who had it tucked away all those years and posted it in a facebook group and I snatched it up.
I think there were standalone stores
I just now noticed the Kaybee sign! That brings back so many memories for me!
Me as well!! It came from the Kay-Bee in Susquehanna Valley Mall in Shamokin Dam, PA. It was supposed to go to the trash compactor when KB closed but an employee stuck it in his parents attic.....And so it sat for 20 years.
Very freaking cool! How dod you stumble upon it? Kaybee was never a standalone store, right? I always remember seeing it inside malls, at least here in AZ.
A guy got it from the person who had it tucked away all those years and posted it in a facebook group and I snatched it up.
I think there were standalone stores
Very freaking cool! I always thought Kaybees and Babbages were just mall stores, I'm probably wrong as I was so young when I would go to these both, and they just happened to be inside malls.
That fiber optic World of Nintendo globe is pretty damn unbeatable in my book:
This is awesome! I didn't even know this existed!
Whats the doom box?
Only one of the coolest things out there!! Don't know who the current owner is, but here's a (some) reference picture (s) for you
http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=67795
But, my winner has to be this bad boy:
Someone on here had a pair of Powerglove LED signs that were at a trade show back when the thing was made. Those were really cool. I'm not a sign guy but, man... I wanted them so badly.
But, my winner has to be this bad boy:
Wow! This is amazing! I've never seen this before!
Someone on here had a pair of Powerglove LED signs that were at a trade show back when the thing was made. Those were really cool. I'm not a sign guy but, man... I wanted them so badly.
But, my winner has to be this bad boy:
Wow! This is amazing! I've never seen this before!
If I recall, it was a kiosk that came out around the launch of the system. I remember walking into a Best Buy back when we just got one in town, and seeing this thing in the games section. At that time, it sealed the deal-- Best Buy was an awesome place. I know times have changed, they are over priced and generally I avoid buying from Best Buy but man, the place still feels like a nerds paradise!
This kiosk is part of the reason why I feel that way.
Someone on here had a pair of Powerglove LED signs that were at a trade show back when the thing was made. Those were really cool. I'm not a sign guy but, man... I wanted them so badly.
But, my winner has to be this bad boy:
Wow! This is amazing! I've never seen this before!
If I recall, it was a kiosk that came out around the launch of the system. I remember walking into a Best Buy back when we just got one in town, and seeing this thing in the games section. At that time, it sealed the deal-- Best Buy was an awesome place. I know times have changed, they are over priced and generally I avoid buying from Best Buy but man, the place still feels like a nerds paradise!
This kiosk is part of the reason why I feel that way.
Oh wow! So I had just missed this kiosk! I was born in 86 and didn't pick up a gameboy until I was around 6 which would have been around 92?! This is really cool! I'm assuming the screen that was a TV that just played either commercials or demos?
Oh wow! So I had just missed this kiosk! I was born in 86 and didn't pick up a gameboy until I was around 6 which would have been around 92?! This is really cool! I'm assuming the screen that was a TV that just played either commercials or demos?
Oh no, it was way cooler/better than that. I've seen some photos where someone had taken one of these apart and I think some one on here has even shared photos of the internal components that they have. They attached Game Boy is modified so that a ribbon cable is coming out of it and connects to a converter box which outputs the screen data to a TV out. What you see on the screen is what you are seeing on the attached Game Boy. I imagine someone out there has put a different game in the unit but the only game that was ever officially preloaded was Tetris. If you did want to replace the game, it would be quite a teardown process. Honestly, it's probably not worth it.
Oh wow! So I had just missed this kiosk! I was born in 86 and didn't pick up a gameboy until I was around 6 which would have been around 92?! This is really cool! I'm assuming the screen that was a TV that just played either commercials or demos?
Oh no, it was way cooler/better than that. I've seen some photos where someone had taken one of these apart and I think some one on here has even shared photos of the internal components that they have. They attached Game Boy is modified so that a ribbon cable is coming out of it and connects to a converter box which outputs the screen data to a TV out. What you see on the screen is what you are seeing on the attached Game Boy. I imagine someone out there has put a different game in the unit but the only game that was ever officially preloaded was Tetris. If you did want to replace the game, it would be quite a teardown process. Honestly, it's probably not worth it.
Really? This is amazing! I would have never guessed that what you played on the Gameboy itself was shown on the screen as well. I wish I would have seen one of these in the wild way back when. It would have been cool to experience.
Feels like an opportunity to express how much I like signs and some of them in my collection. Nintendo just knocked it out of the park in the good old days. I have collected just about all I want for signs/displays. Very content and very grateful to have the opportunity to preserve this history and have it on display.
Wow!! That is an awesome game room!!!