Way back on July 20th, 2007, Nintendo celebrated the opening of the Pokémon Center in Tokyo by offering the Pikachu-branded yellow DS you see above. In order to procure one, you had to submit an application to one of the five other Pokémon Centers in Japan. Only a chosen few were eligible to purchase it.

Nintendo of America isn’t making it any easier; they’re holding a sweepstakes to win one of two.

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To celebrate the new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series for the Nintendo DS, Pokémon fans are invited to an online sweepstakes where you will have the chance to uncover your very own treasure - a prize package filled with Pokémon video game goodies!

Between April 23 and May 21, you will be able to enter the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon online sweepstakes for a chance to win one of two Pokémon Video Game Treasure Chest prize packages, including a limited edition Pikachu Nintendo DS, a Wii console, a high-definition television and assorted Pokémon games and merchandise. And if you’re looking for even more adventure, this site is home to an online scavenger hunt where you will be challenged to discover hidden icons in order to gain access to an exclusive Pokémon wallpaper, which will give your computer some extra Pokémon flair.

via nintendo.

This awesome NES casemod manages to squeeze a fully-functional Nintendo 8-bit console into the body of one of the system’s own game cartridges.

The Fami-Card started out its life as an original Super Mario Brothers cartridge. French modder Kotomi carefully ripped out its guts and transplanted them with the innards of one of those NOAC (NES on a Chip) system clones.

The console manages to cram in an NES cartridge slot, power and reset buttons, a pair of joystick ports and composite video and stereo audio outputs.

via technabob

Top 10 articles are a thorny subject — you can voice your opinion but it’s often that you’ll find dozens of fanboys claiming the superiority of their game/platform/company of choice. Topless Robot lists the top ten best Nintendo games that no one played; and I think they’re right, for the most part. Of the ten, I only got to play two as a kid, three up until now. I remember drooling over some of these while reading Nintendo Power, but was never lucky enough to play them even today. I’ll have to add these to my list of cartridges to hunt down.

Now, I think the average joe that runs into this list wouldn’t have played a single one. Certainly no one from the Playstation generation has.

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