{"id":118723,"date":"2020-09-30T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/video_a_look_at_some_of_the_rarest_nintendo_consoles"},"modified":"2020-09-30T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:40:00","slug":"video-a-look-at-some-of-the-rarest-nintendo-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/30\/video-a-look-at-some-of-the-rarest-nintendo-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: A Look At Some Of The Rarest Nintendo Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dbbeae8145257\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dbbeae8145257\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dbbeae8145257\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>When you consider the sheer number of limited edition consoles the company has released over the years, it&#8217;s hardly surprising that plenty of Nintendo machines both old and new are deemed to be incredibly rare. That doesn&#8217;t stop them from being super-interesting, though, as this new video proves.<\/p>\n<p>The video comes from video game researcher and archiver Liam Robertson, as part of his Game History Secrets show found on DidYouKnowGaming?. Several rare Nintendo consoles are shown off, including a special Nintendo DS with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/super_mario_64_ds\"><strong>Super Mario 64 DS<\/strong><\/a> artwork, a rare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/advance_wars_dual_strike\"><strong>Advance Wars<\/strong><\/a> DS only given out to press, and more \u2013 including a fascinating story surrounding a Miyamoto signature that was believed to be just &#8220;a smudge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well worth a watch if you&#8217;re into this sort of thing and, if you&#8217;re interested, the video was created in partnership with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?v=yy0hZ2JZDfw&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVRvWUNfNmVjclVHcHRwY0tOT0I3Ui1NN1Rjd3xBQ3Jtc0tuMW1PY2NaOEVzdWhVVEdRbFM0ZENZZzlpb05Id0ZmeExIMmNPUGUtUy1oNHdYNURyWF80akM1d3dEUE1NSXhLZDhNS3JJc21WMGJZWkZQdnVMZmo4eFRxTTVORGN6M19zOVN0c2ZWUFdzWUQ2NC01SQ%3D%3D&amp;event=video_description&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fconsolevariations.com%2F\">Console Variations<\/a> \u2013 a great website for tracking down all the weird and wonderful variants of Nintendo consoles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><figcaption class=\"caption\">Here&#8217;s a look at that special Super Mario 64 DS console&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How many of these Nintendo systems have you heard about before? Any that are completely new to you? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you consider the sheer number of limited edition consoles the company has released over the years, it&#8217;s hardly surprising that plenty of Nintendo machines both old and new are deemed to be incredibly rare. That doesn&#8217;t stop them from being super-interesting, though, as this new video proves. The video comes from video game researcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}