If you love showing your love for your favourite consoles but prefer to do it in a subtle way, then keychains are a great shout. I have a little Master Sword dangling from my keys that, on the rare occasion I do get them out, might catch the eye of a Zelda fan who usually gives me a nod of recognition. It’s like a secret code between nerds. There’s a set of keychains even cooler than my miniature darkness-sealing sword, however, a set that depicts four of Nintendo’s greatest controllers of all time.
The set depicts buttons and sticks from the NES/Famicom, SNES, N64, and GameCube. Looking at the featured image above, you can instantly see which is which, taking the most iconic features from the controllers that we’ve all played incessantly with over the years. Immediately I’m drawn to the N64 variants, and my mind is telling me that playing with those buttons and control stick would be 10,000 times better than any fidget spinner. Heck, I could even improve my button-mashing skills while out and about!
Shared by TokyoGameLife, they’re available from gashapon machines in Nintendo Tokyo. Ah, there’s the catch you were waiting for – they’re currently only available in Nintendo Tokyo in Shibuyu, and also reportedly in Osaka and Kyoto. Still, a quick search on eBay shows that it’s very easy to purchase the NES/Famicom keychain set online, albeit in many cases for a premium sum, so it’s only a matter of time until the other keychains appear up there.
Still, if you’ve got a trip to Japan planned, then heading to a Nitnendo store machine would be one of the first things I would make a beeline for in order to try and grab one, or let’s face it, all of these Nintendo controller keychains to stick on my keys!
