New Ultra Machine, another remake by Nichiten

Some time ago I posted about the various remakes of the Nintendo Ultra Machine DX, which appeared in the last ten years or so. They seem to be officially approved by Nintendo, though no license or copyright information is included.

Ultra Machine remake by Nichiten

Up until now, I had found three variants: two by company Nichiten and one by Tenyo. These versions differ from the original in box design and branding on the toy (base and bat).

I recently discovered a fourth variant, shown here. It is another (third) version by Nichiten.

Nintendo board game Happy Prince (ディズニーのハッピープリンス, early 1960s)

The Nintendo board game Happy Prince (ディズニーのハッピープリンス) is a game based on the Disney movie Sleeping Beauty.

Nintendo Happy Prince board game (early 1960s)

Like many of the early Nintendo board games, it is a localized Japanese version of a game created by American company Whitman. The original Whitman game is called Disney's Sleeping Beauty Game.

Happy Prince is a pretty standard affair, with a spin of the dice largely determining the outcome of the game.

When we take a better look at the back of the play field, we see something interesting.

More Nintendo vintage items for sale

Yesterday I started another round of auctions of vintage Nintendo items.

For sale are Nintendo Ultra Scope (2), Custom Gun Man (2), Custom Lion, Space Ball, Custom Lever Action Riffle Scope (very rare!), Ele-conga Auto Player (very rare!), Twister, Ten Billion puzzle (6), Kamen Rider Clock and Disney Clock, Ultra Man Monster Copy and more.

Items currently for sale

The auctions will run for a week and have a low starting bid and no reserve. An excellent opportunity to start a collection or to extend it with some pieces you have been missing. I will ship internationally and will combine shipping to save cost as much as possible.

Update (May 26): the auctions are now finished. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who showed an interest!

But... we are not done yet. More items will go on sale in a couple of weeks from now. Watch this space.

Nintendo Table Soccer (テーブル サッカー, 1965)

Baseball has long been one of Japan's premiere sporting pastimes, for spectators as well as for participants. This is reflected in a number of baseball related toys and games that were released by Nintendo, including Baseball Board and the very successful batting practice Ultra Machine.

In the 1960s, soccer (football) also became popular in Japan. So it was almost inevitable that Nintendo would introduce some soccer based games.

Nintendo Table Soccer (1965)

The first soccer game Nintendo released is called Table Soccer. It was released in 1965 for the reasonable price of ¥400. This was followed in 1970 by Dynamic Soccer.

Table Soccer is a sports simulation game, simliar to the game of Subbuteo.