Nintendo Museum

But I specifically was there to interview Shigeru Miyamoto.

And it was the second time I ever interviewed him The third time was recently in in March at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto.

And Marcus and I were just hanging out all day.

We're just, you know, cracking up about like stupid stuff and telling stories about working in the video games industry.

yeah it's the classic like bring it in yeah bring it in maybe like a little pad

yeah there's other variations i bet when you dap him it makes the it makes the switch click

sound marcus is like you gotta do that and it it's like i went in you know you're you're always a little bit nervous when you like you're sitting down to talk to the most legendary person in the history of video games right yeah and i i walk into the room and i see him and he remembered me and he was like nice to see you again which was really sweet and i'm wearing this t-shirt i'm wearing a shirt that i had printed like a like a panel from a donkey kong manga and um i basically bootlegged a shirt a nintendo shirt which is historically nintendo loves that right guys yeah their lawyers just manifest classically the least litigious company out there uh and i walk in and he was immediately like where where'd you get that what's up with that shirt and i was like i just i i promise i'm not selling it and i go i go to shake his hand and everything in my brain was like don't do it don't go for the dab and so i didn't i didn't dap him up um and then i did not again when i saw when i interviewed him in kyoto at the nintendo museum but no that's that's that's a good segue to that because i think that was it for me that was like that was one of those things where i'm like this is like so many overlapping nintendo power contests being won at the same time Where I'm in.

Has anyone here been to the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto?

Uh, "Quick note for John.

I did visit the Nintendo Museum.

Getting tickets might be harder-

Heck yeah, brother

I saw a bunch of this stuff.

I was in Osaka and Kyoto earlier this year for a shoot at the Nintendo Museum with Shigeru Miyamoto, and I went into one of those stores.

and they had all of this cool stuff in there.

And my favorite by far is they made an insulated lunch bag that's based on those to-go food bags that you drive over in the game that change your costume in Mario Kart World.

Which, uh, did you watch film sets in Japan as preparation? I had a I mean, I've seen those for sure, but no, we didn't watch any in preparation for this trip.

Steel Switch, I've not been to the Nintendo Museum, so if you have, please share with a friend.

We went to three theme parks total.

I got another one in Tokyo coming up here that I'll get to in just a moment.

Wow.

I went to the Nintendo Museum and Carpets really commented on this last week, and I'd love to see Mario Kart Live Home Circuit sort of featured so prominently throughout the museums.

I don't know if you get a kick out of that, but I was pleased to see it.

It's an amazing place.

Like, I...

The other thing I always think about is I'm also in the Nintendo Museum.

I am.

My, one of my characters is.

[laughs]

But in the Nintendo Museum, there's, um, a, like a wall with, like, a grid of squares, and each square has a Nintendo character on it.

Mm.

And we are on that grid right at the bottom.

Right on.

But also, I went to the Nintendo Museum.

This is all my video game stuff, I guess.

I did a lot of things in Japan, but a lot of video game stuff.

Went to the Nintendo Museum.

It was very cool.

It was great to see all that history.

... it's, uh, it's an interesting one.

Um, just lastly, just on the site, just to make some notes, um, Mikael has done some Switch port report stuff, so there's Granblue Fantasy Versus, Rising, there's EDF, um, and there's also, um, if you missed any of it last week, towards the end of last week, right around the time the podcast came out, there was a lot of, um, Resident Evil trilogy and lots of Dynasty Warriors stuff, and my Nintendo Museum thing.

So there's some good stuff on the site, um, and there's been some news this week highlighting some cool indie games, stuff like that, that's well worth having a look into.

Um-

Other-

And then also I got this, this Nintendo from the Nintendo Museum.

[laughs] Nice.

This was sent the same day.

So Nintendo has announced that they are celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda.

Uh, the company has announced several highlights, including a Nintendo Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and a special Legend of Zelda promotion at the Nintendo Museum in Japan.

However, additionally, they've confirmed The Legend of Zelda concert will take place globally throughout 2027.

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