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My family & I went to the Nintendo World Store yesterday. We showed up like 5 minutes before they were closing.....I'm so glad I squeezed in before the doors closed! I was able to take a few pictures before they closed shop. They have several gaming stations & very nice display items as well. You can buy limited edition NDS's, SP's etc. If anyone is in or around the the NY area, stop by sometime. I purchased 4 Nintendo character patches(Mario, Luigi, Yoshi & Princess Peach), 1 Legend Of Zelda Patch, 1 Mario Kart collector's pin, 2 Nintendo DS carying cases & a mint refreshment can in the shape of a original NES controller. If anyone is interested, I will post up some pics of the store when I get home.

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Cool man!  I'd like to see pictures of it, if you can post them :)  

Do they have any kind of retro area for their older consoles like NES and SNES?  I know that they have some Nintendo history displays, but do they have any old consoles set up to play on?

I sure can. Will do so tonite.



Unfortunately no. I wonder if they have a few days out of the year where they will host retro gaming stations. I will have to ask next time.  :)

Here are the pics I took while I was there.  These are all of the dispay case on the second floor.

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jsdoyle/Nintendo/

I love the case of SP's/

Wizard we need pics skip work and go post them now!

I really want to go some time.
Maybe i can road trip to NYC during the summer or something...

But definately get some pics up :)

Those game and watches look awesome.

I'm Jealous. If I ever go to NYC this would definitely be on my list of places to visit.

Going to the Nintendo store was quite an accident.  Had the rest of the group not wanted to go to Rockafeller Center, I wouldn't have found the store.

I'm not a video game collector, like most of the people on the forum, so I didn't get that much out of the store.  It was smaller than I would have expected, smaller than the average store in a mall, though I would imagine the premium spot made it financially impossible to put a large store there.

I didn't care for New York City either, gimme Chicago over NYC any day.

Pictures added. I wish I had more time to take better pictures, but I guess these will work for now. Enjoy.

A few new pictures in that lot.
Very cool stuff man :)

Was the stuff in the store expensive?

For the limited edition stuff, yes. The Limited Edition NDS are $500.

NDS games are maybe 1 or 2 dollars more than a toys r us. I bought the tin metal mint nes controller for 2.99 & each patch was 2.99 as well. The carrying cases were 12.99

They actually have contests for certain games. You can go here to sign up, if your going to be in the area during the time.
http://nintendoworldstore.com/

Also, if you look at the Game Cube section of the world store site....you'll see a "NES Miracle Piano" in the display. It wasn't there when I went unfortunately. It was replaced with the famicom & nes/SMB3 setup.

Wow, they changed it significantly since I was there.  Good to know they finally fixed some of the stuff on the second floor. Except for the display cases, the stuff on the sedond floor was still being installed when I was there.  Nice pics.

How close you live to the store..cool pictures

about an hour or so away. :)

Here are the patches, pin & mint tin controller I got.

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Goals in my life:

1)  Have kids that aren't deformed in some way
2)  Retire at some time in my life, wealthy and fit
3)  Visit the Nintendo World store

Nice pictures!

awesome pictures......i live in PA and have never been to NYC.....i should head up there sometime....

So who is that guy with the ugly mug in the first pic?

By any chance was this the Pokemon centre?

if it is it was a very small place and a bit hidden away.

I don't believe it is. Not sure on teh size and location.

Hey, I got that mint container at the import candy store here :girl:

I love those patches. If you decide to go back after I get back to the states and would be willing to pick some up lemme know. Those are sweet.

I've been to NYC. I hated it. I mean I really hated it. I was there in July 2004 and the entire city smelled like urine and stagnant garbage. My question is, is this joint really worth dealing with my hate of NYC for a visit? Will I really see things I've never seen and are the items available for purchase really that wicked? Here's how much I hate NYC - I was sooooooo happy to get back to New Jersey and it felt like home in comparison. Now I'm not a huge fan of Jersey either but damn it looked downright beautiful in comparison. I would like to check it out but I just dunno if I could deal with the city just for one stop....

Oh have you ever been to the Toys R Us in/near Times Square? There's a giant Mario statue in the video games section. Actually the whole store was really wicked. I took a pic of me with Mario, upload it at a later date.

I'm with you on the NYC thing.  Dirtiest city I've ever been to.  I went in August of 2005, and then went to Chicago in Septembet of 2005 and the two seemed to be worlds apart.     Of course, this is only counting the central business districts of both. Chicago has a lot of large industrial complexes, but they are far enough from downtown to make much of a difference.

I will give NYC one more chance, but when I go back it will be anytime but during the summer.  

Actually, yes there is a Pokemon Centere located in the back corner of the first floor. I have a few more pictures that I will add later from my second trip.



I would, but unfortunately I just moved back to Washington State. I went one more additional time and it was just as bad as my previous time(urine). You have to get used to it. I really enjoyed my trip into the city, because it's now something I can cherish forever...and not everyone has the chance to make it to NY. If you can overcome the smell, it is quite worth it. It really smells bad in the subway located by the south ferry.

I have been to the Toys R Us and it's sweet! The toy store does have that Mario statue and yes, please post a pic of it. I have one on my website, but he is sun faded and just horribly wrong.

The store was great & had an awesome merchandise section. They had T-shirts and other memorabila that I've never seen before for sale. They also have limited edition Nintendo D.S.'s, shigeru miyamoto limited edition autographed D.S.'s (sold out by the way) which were unbelieveably awesome! It's just the whole experience in the store makes it worth while, so if you get the chance, go for it.
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Here is me at Toys R Us in NYC. I honestly dunno if I could overcome the urine and the sardine-ish sense of vertigo I get from being in that concrete crapper, even for Nintendo  :yuck:

NOTE: Mario is on top of a box and I am app 5'7".

Wow, I've always wanted to go there, must be so cool :speechless: :laugh:

When i was in that Tor r us in December 2004 the screen next to the plastic Mario they had a link up to San Francisco to the guy that does the voice fo Mario he was trying to get kids to talk to him (in charecter of course) being not only Mario but alot of the other people that he does too.

Was funky that they did it bu felt a bit of a spaz trying to talk to him with about 25 bewilderd kids looking on!!!

Didnt even know there was such a store, pretty cool!

That is awesome. I wonder how much he gets paid to by the voice of Super Mario? That would be a killer job.