Going to NYC

[Hydrobond]

NYC is a dirty dirty place.  I highly recommend no one ever go there.  

Expect an account of the city w/pictures this weekend.

[Hydrobond]

I finally got around to editing the pictures from the NYC trip.  
Here is a sample:

Downtown Manhattan:

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Random Manhattan Park:

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More Manhattan:

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Midtown from the East River:

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Midtown from the Hudson:

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:

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There should be two very tall buildings in this picture:

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FLW FTW:

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Flags:

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Times Square:

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Famous Fountain Thingy:

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The one and only Nintendo Store:

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-Hydro

[TraderJake]

Lovely Pictures

[Speedy_NES]

Yeah, nice pics man  I still need to check out NYC myself someday...

-Speedy

[CatchFiveBats]

How was the Nintendo World Store?  I'm tempted to go to NYC just for that...

[den68]

well the Guggenheim still looks about the same as I remember it.

did you go in it? lot of good art museums in NYC. how about the Metropolitan or the Museum of Modern Art or the Whitney?

[Hydrobond]

I was actually dissapointed to see that the Guggeinheim was in such poor shape, it needs some major repairs.  

We were planning on going into the Guggenheim, however it was closed that day.  Additionally, we were supposed to go to MoMA, but instead chose to get a good spot in line for The Daily Show.  Plus it would have been an additional cab fare.  If you are ever in NYC again, I highly recommend seeing The Daily Show, it was certainly a highlight of the trip.

The Nintendo store wasn't really "impressive" more than exactly what I was expecting.  There were areas to play Game Cube and any Game Boy game.  (They had a nifty little rig that got the Game Boy games from a central server, and all you did was select the game you wanted to play.)  There was a little gift shop area and a Nintendo museum if you will.  I will post the pictures of that part soon.  I hadn't planned on going to the Nintendo store at all, but actually happened upon it while I was at Rockafeller Center.  (The Nintendo store is right next to the studio for The Today Show.)

[Hydrobond]

Pics from the Nintendo Store:

[Izret101]

OMFG!

It is a giant Museum of Nintendo goodness.
I need to go there... Soon. Very soon.
Does it cost money to get in?

I have never actually heard much or seen anything from inside the place before.

[Hydrobond]

Its all free. And they only have one display case with this stuff in it, its about 10' by 4', nothing spectacular.  

[Izret101]

Awww...
So pretty much everything in the pics is all there is?

Ok so i don't want to go as badly now.

[Hydrobond]

The only thing that I didn't take a picture of was a cabinet that had a keyboard (piano, not pc) and the really big gun for SNES.  It is a store first and foremost with a little homage to Nintendo past on the second floor.

Also, if you look at the top of the Nintendo World picture, you can see the Game Cube area.  There were egg chairs like in Men in Black set up facing 4 plamsa screens each with a Game Cube hooked up.  

It wasn't very crowded either, which was shocking for NYC, I can only imagine what it looks like during the Christmas rush though.  

[atari_wizard]

thanx so much for sharing! those pics are awesome. i was just up there and had no idea this place existed. what exactly is the last picture? i know its a keyboard and tape recorder, but what for? was this a prototype? or for the famicom?

[NDiddy]

Yes truly awesome pics really liked all those gba sp's.

[Hydrobond]

It's a prototype for the NES called the AVS (Advanced Video System).  

Advanced Video System (from the caption card in the lower left hand corner):

The Advanced Video System, or AVS, was the prototype of the popular Nintendo Entertainment System.  The AVS was shown publicly only once, in 1985 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  The AVS was revolutionary for its day.  The system included a keyboard, handheld joystick, light wand/gun, music keybo!rd, and a data storage unit, that were all integrated wireless.  The revolutionary controllers were also wireless, and could be stored in the front of the main unit, or control deck, when not in use.  The AVS combined many features found in computers of the day and included innovative functions such as game editing and storage, music composition, loght wand-TV game interaction (you could shoot at the TV), and never before seen 8-bit video game graphics.