When Nintendo introduced it was constructing a museum devoted to its 135-year historical past, it was straightforward to image a cartoonish facility with numerous brilliant colours and cheery music that might be a thrill for younger kids and a nostalgia journey for his or her dad and mom.
Actually, the Nintendo Museum, which opens to the general public Oct. 2 in a sleepy neighborhood of Uji, Kyoto Prefecture (about half-hour by practice from Kyoto Station and 1 hour from Osaka Station), delivers in spades on the latter however is surprisingly missing within the former.
The primary signal that the Nintendo Museum will not be a playground comes simply after you move via the outside gates. The traditional Nintendo symbols are there: A show with warp pipes, blocks and a power-up mushroom, plus an 8-bit depiction of Tremendous Mario sliding down a flag pole present an preliminary burst of what is going to be many hits of nostalgia.