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661: Episode 661 Preview: Nintendo Museum

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Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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You're listening to a free preview of Retronauts Episode 661: Nintendo Museum. To hear the rest, and get two exclusive extra episodes every month, access to our previous Patreon-exclusive episodes, and early access to ad-free podcasts, please visit the official Retronauts Patreon at patreon.com/retronauts.

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0:00.0

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0:09.4

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0:16.7

Once you do that, you'll get access to all of our previous exclusive episodes and our future ones as well, as long as you remain a patron, and our exclusive episodes will launch every other Friday.

0:26.2

Again, that is the Retronauts Patreon at patreon.com slash Retronauts, and I'll let you get to this free preview of one of our exclusive episodes.

0:58.2

Thank you. of one of our exclusive episodes. So we're in the museum.

1:00.6

I do want to hit up all the attractions first because there's a lot of stuff to talk about,

1:02.9

a lot of interactive things to talk about.

1:04.7

The first item on the list is the SP versions of the controller.

1:08.7

So a very large portion of the first floor is devoted to these interactive exhibits where you get in line with a friend or you get in line alone, I think, if you just want to play the Wii version.

1:20.8

But there's a giant Famicom controller, Super Famicomacom, N64 in Wii, and you select which game you want to play for most of them,

1:28.6

and you're allowed to play for about, I think, like, two minutes.

1:31.0

And as you're playing it, they take your picture automatically.

1:34.0

But then when you're done, a worker will take your picture with a phone, and that's it.

1:38.4

It's more fun than it looks.

1:41.2

It just seems kind of corny at first, but you do have fun, but I'm just shocked by the sheer amount of real estate. That alone takes up. But I will say the first floor

1:49.6

does feel like a very Japanese theme parky thing to me because it feels like it's there for people

1:55.2

on dates. Everything there feels like young people on dates will hit that up and have a lot of fun

2:00.3

together.

2:06.5

Yeah. As someone who, you know, I'm not dating. I'm married, but, you know, she wasn't there.

2:11.0

So I kind of had nothing to do in the control area because, like, I looked at those things.

2:15.7

Like, where there's no possible way I could stretch my arms out and play this game by myself,

2:18.7

I would hope, I don't know if they've maybe changed things since then, but I think at this point, if you show up alone, like, you're just

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