I was going to add this as a note to my previous article
but since it's a separate matter from the ZIPP customer
and it's getting long, I made it its own post.
They said it was okay to write about this,
so when someone who works at a certain playing card shop
came by to pick up a wheel we'd built,
they gave me thisbribe souvenir.
The other side of the bag has Pikmin on it.
It's Super Mario pipe cookies
sold at the Nintendo Museum.
↑The lid
↑Inside the pipe
The cookies come in individually wrapped bags
printed with titles from classic Mario games.
They asked me to post a picture on here
of them coming out of this pipe,
so I did that at the start of the article.
From the same customer,
when they came by to request wheel building,
they also gave me this.
It's a keychain with
the A and B buttons and the D-pad
from a Famicom controller.
The A and B button body color is azuki red,
the same as the original,
and the D-pad comes in a clear azuki red color
that didn't exist on the original.
This is incredible.
What makes it incredible is
that when you press the buttons and D-pad,
the feel is a perfect recreation
of an actual Famicom controller,
and I realized this sensation
was clearly etched into my memory.
This is an emotion that only those of us
who actually held a real console back then
would understand.
Things like this, and hearing Nobuyo Oyama's voice as Doraemon—
these things get to my tear ducts,
and they're engrained in me
in a way that will probably never fade until I die.
↑This is displayed in our shop.
It's the complete set of all 30 types
from the Super Mario series
that was released as a Pepsi Cola
bottle cap accessory back in the day.
This series is famous for doing the same thing with Star Wars
bottle cap accessories,
but back when road bike fork columns
used to be 1-inch diameter,
the outer diameter of the column spacers that went on them
were just about the right size for these bottle cap accessories,
so there was a trend of installing them there.
↑Super Luigi Pipe
The design is based on pixel art
with an added sense of depth.
There's a name on the back,
and a name and number on the reverse side.
↑This is Fire Mario,
↑and this is Fire Luigi.
In the original Super Mario Bros.,
Mario and Luigi have no color difference
when they get the Fire Flower.
Below are the rest in numerical order, starting from the left side of the image:
1. MARIO STAND
2. MARIO SWIM
3. MARIO FLAG
4. MARIO TOGEZOU
5. SUPER MARIO CLOUD
6. SUPER MARIO KILLER
7. FIRE MARIO
8. KURIbo [1]
9. PATAPATA
10. PACKUN FLOWER
Packun is spelled this way,
not PAKKUN.
11. HODAI
12. HAMMER BROS. [1]
13. METTO [1]
14. SUPER KINOKO
15. SUPER STAR
It's hard to tell, but 11 is "cannon."
16. LUIGI 1UP KINOKO
17. LUIGI METTO
18. LUIGI TSURU
19. LUIGI BUBBLE
20. SUPER LUIGI DOKAN
21. SUPER LUIGI KURIBO
22. FIRE LUIGI
23. KURIBO [2]
24. NOKONOKO
25. GESSO
Kuribo and Nokonoko come in the underground stage colors,
but there's no ground stage color Nokonoko.
That's what 9 Patapata is for.
26. PUKUPUKU
27. HAMMER BROS. [2]
28. METTO [2]
29. FIRE FLOWER
30. COIN
and that's all of them.
↑This is
dots—read as "Dots"
a thing where you can create and display pixel art,
a collaboration product with Super Mario Bros.
There are example creations on the back of the box,
but with this product you can of course
freely create your own pixel art.
This series came out with not just Nintendo's Mario and Zelda,
but also Namco's Pac-Man and Mappy,
Dig Dug, and Tower of Druaga.
This was also a collaboration with Pepsi Cola back in the day,
tape that was sold inserted into the cap part
of a 1.5 liter plastic bottle.
↑It has patterns like this,
and there are 8 types total,
and I have the complete set of these as well.
There are 4 types with larger character sizes,
and 4 types that fill the whole screen.
These remind me of the maps that were shown
in the old Tokuma Shoten and Futabasha strategy guides.
I decided to use the pipe they gave me
as a container for these tapes.
but since it's a separate matter from the ZIPP customer
and it's getting long, I made it its own post.
They said it was okay to write about this,
so when someone who works at a certain playing card shop
came by to pick up a wheel we'd built,
they gave me this
The other side of the bag has Pikmin on it.
It's Super Mario pipe cookies
sold at the Nintendo Museum.
↑The lid
↑Inside the pipe
The cookies come in individually wrapped bags
printed with titles from classic Mario games.
They asked me to post a picture on here
of them coming out of this pipe,
so I did that at the start of the article.
From the same customer,
when they came by to request wheel building,
they also gave me this.
It's a keychain with
the A and B buttons and the D-pad
from a Famicom controller.
The A and B button body color is azuki red,
the same as the original,
and the D-pad comes in a clear azuki red color
that didn't exist on the original.
This is incredible.
What makes it incredible is
that when you press the buttons and D-pad,
the feel is a perfect recreation
of an actual Famicom controller,
and I realized this sensation
was clearly etched into my memory.
This is an emotion that only those of us
who actually held a real console back then
would understand.
Things like this, and hearing Nobuyo Oyama's voice as Doraemon—
these things get to my tear ducts,
and they're engrained in me
in a way that will probably never fade until I die.
↑This is displayed in our shop.
It's the complete set of all 30 types
from the Super Mario series
that was released as a Pepsi Cola
bottle cap accessory back in the day.
This series is famous for doing the same thing with Star Wars
bottle cap accessories,
but back when road bike fork columns
used to be 1-inch diameter,
the outer diameter of the column spacers that went on them
were just about the right size for these bottle cap accessories,
so there was a trend of installing them there.
↑Super Luigi Pipe
The design is based on pixel art
with an added sense of depth.
There's a name on the back,
and a name and number on the reverse side.
↑This is Fire Mario,
↑and this is Fire Luigi.
In the original Super Mario Bros.,
Mario and Luigi have no color difference
when they get the Fire Flower.
Below are the rest in numerical order, starting from the left side of the image:
1. MARIO STAND
2. MARIO SWIM
3. MARIO FLAG
4. MARIO TOGEZOU
5. SUPER MARIO CLOUD
6. SUPER MARIO KILLER
7. FIRE MARIO
8. KURIbo [1]
9. PATAPATA
10. PACKUN FLOWER
Packun is spelled this way,
not PAKKUN.
11. HODAI
12. HAMMER BROS. [1]
13. METTO [1]
14. SUPER KINOKO
15. SUPER STAR
It's hard to tell, but 11 is "cannon."
16. LUIGI 1UP KINOKO
17. LUIGI METTO
18. LUIGI TSURU
19. LUIGI BUBBLE
20. SUPER LUIGI DOKAN
21. SUPER LUIGI KURIBO
22. FIRE LUIGI
23. KURIBO [2]
24. NOKONOKO
25. GESSO
Kuribo and Nokonoko come in the underground stage colors,
but there's no ground stage color Nokonoko.
That's what 9 Patapata is for.
26. PUKUPUKU
27. HAMMER BROS. [2]
28. METTO [2]
29. FIRE FLOWER
30. COIN
and that's all of them.
↑This is
dots—read as "Dots"
a thing where you can create and display pixel art,
a collaboration product with Super Mario Bros.
There are example creations on the back of the box,
but with this product you can of course
freely create your own pixel art.
This series came out with not just Nintendo's Mario and Zelda,
but also Namco's Pac-Man and Mappy,
Dig Dug, and Tower of Druaga.
This was also a collaboration with Pepsi Cola back in the day,
tape that was sold inserted into the cap part
of a 1.5 liter plastic bottle.
↑It has patterns like this,
and there are 8 types total,
and I have the complete set of these as well.
There are 4 types with larger character sizes,
and 4 types that fill the whole screen.
These remind me of the maps that were shown
in the old Tokuma Shoten and Futabasha strategy guides.
I decided to use the pipe they gave me
as a container for these tapes.