Nintendo often has a strange way of honoring its legacy. And again, as the controllers of yesteryear have been turned into really cool keychains.
Nintendo has a history of strange controllers. The Switch’s Joy-Con were unique, but the N64’s trident controller was also very odd. And so was the GameCube’s controller, with its large A button surrounded by oddly shaped B, X and Y. Nintendo has now turned those distinctive features into keychains that we’re very greedy for.
The parts with buttons of the controllers are cut out in a circle or oval, as it were, and hung on a chain. These are the striking GameCube buttons and the different C-stick of that console, and the stick and buttons of the Nintendo 64. There are also two versions of the action buttons of the SNES: the American version in purple and lilac and the familiar European buttons in red, yellow, green and blue. Of course you can press and operate those buttons and sticks: probably a wonderful fidget toy.
There is one big but…
The keychains are in addition to the six existing keychains in the Controller Button Collection. This consisted of square pieces of controllers from the NES and the Famicom, the Japanese version of that game console. In addition to versions with action buttons, these keychains also have a version with a d-pad and one with the start-select buttons.
How do you get your hands on these gems of gaming merchandise? Then you have to go to Japanto the Nintendo Stores in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto. Or to Narita Airport in Tokyo, because those four locations have the special machine where the key rings are. Such gacha machines work on the bubble gum principle, so you don’t even know in advance what you’re going to get. You have to put 500 yen in the machine, which is just under 3 euros. Importing via eBay will cost you ten times as much, based on the longer available NES key rings.
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