Tenjikuronin

14 hours ago, 0xDEAFC0DE said:

I've read before (https://connect.gocollect.com/discussion/comment/3167721/#Comment_3167721) that Nintendo put NFR stickers on games sold through employee sales (so that they wouldn't try to resell it). If you scroll up in that thread you'll see pictures of a Tetris with one such sticker. I've also seen a couple other similar stickers that I think were also used for this purpose (https://connect.gocollect.com/discussion/89119, and http://web.archive.org/web/20090725071306/http://zeldacollectorsmuseum.com:80/). So, my guess is that instead of using one of those stickers, they put a challenge set NFR sticker on it when that "uncle who worked for Nintendo" bought it.

I can verify the first half -- throughout the mid-90s, whenever someone would buy games from NOA's employee store (Fun & Games), the clerk would slap one of these stickers on to the box.  They usually had a giant spindle of such stickers at the counter which they would peel off and attach to the front of games, mostly to discourage employees and other buyers from reselling them (as they were usually bought at a steep discount -- like $10 for brand new SNES games in 1996).  Later onwards, they switched to a white colored label (I don't have a picture on me at the moment) which served the same purpose. 

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A part of Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America in Granite Falls, WA

1 hour ago, darkchylde28 said:

I don't remember the specific name but recall it being some relatively small, narrow vehicle that kind of looked like a microbus while being about the size of a subcompact car and had some ridiculously low pricetag of something like $500-1000 new.  

No worries -- I was just intrigued by the cardboard framing part.  That sort of thing would not go well during monsoon season in India...haha

52 minutes ago, Tulpa said:

The Tata Nano?

 

On the topic of this thread, I can't believe that the Nano was released 12 years ago - it seems like just yesterday it was rolled out. 

On 5/28/2020 at 3:46 AM, Tulpa said:

 these countries bicker over a worthless glacier, to the point that they both have stationed armed soldiers around it.

 

Are you referring to Siachen, by any chance?  If so, that glacier is actually the single largest source of fresh water on the Indian subcontinent.  So not exactly worthless....lol

On 5/27/2020 at 1:56 PM, darkchylde28 said:

I'd go for some of the Indian cars for being the arguably worst ever made, given that I've read about some Indian models bodies being made with plastic covered paper or cardboard 

I'm genuinely curious -- which car was this?

D.A.R.E. Exhibit at the New Jersey State Police Museum in Trenton, NJ

On 5/22/2020 at 9:44 AM, DarkTone said:

The art on that card game hurt my soul. 

It looks like the same artwork that was used on the back of the Street Fighter II G.I. Joe figures

Speaking of TRU, here is the message they had outside one of their stores before it closed a while back.