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R1V3R5
01-20-2006, 01:48 AM
"Former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi is using state-of-the-art technology to bring life to a part of Kyoto's history. The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Project Foundation, which is headed by Yamauchi, announced today that its Shigureden Museum will open on January 27. The two-story museum will be paved with 70 45-inch LCD panels that display Ogura Hyakunin Issu poem cards. The poems are used in a traditional card game, in which the host reads the first half of a poem and players must find the card with the second half. Since Nintendo started out as a company that made playing cards, Yamauchi has said the museum is a way for him to return to his roots."

Taken from here...
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6142698.html

However, if you follow the link to the actual site of the museum and watch the little flash video, the museum actually uses modified Nintendo DS systems. Look closely at that double screened PDA, then look closer. Same speakers, same hinges, it is merely a modified DS system! Makes sense since he has ties to Nintendo but that explains some of the shortages of DS systems in Japan. Plus, it clearly shows the DS is capable of serving a purpose other than that of a toy.

Museum site here...
http://www.shigureden.com/

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cochesecochese
01-20-2006, 02:01 AM
Makes sense since he has ties to Nintendo but that explains some of the shortages of DS systems in Japan.

Come on, are you serious? Even if that museum is absolutely ginormous, you're looking at 500 DS' in the building tops.
R1V3R5
01-20-2006, 02:04 AM
Come on, are you serious? Even if that museum is absolutely ginormous, you're looking at 500 DS' in the building tops.

That was actually me joking. I think Nintendo builds like 10,000,000 DS systems a year. Just being silly because of the DS shortage in Japan.
cochesecochese
01-20-2006, 02:20 AM
Don't fuck with me like that man. I can't tell when people are joking on the internet.

Well, wouldn't you just love to have one of those babies as a collector's item? I'm sure there's not a chance in hell, but wouldn't it be nice?