Friday, August 10, 2012

A Famicom cart that fits on your fingertip

Behold, the smallest copy of Wild Gunman you are likely to ever find. About one-tenth the size of the regular cart:
I just picked up a set of Famicom erasers and this was by far the smallest one in the lot. Back in the 80s collecting erasers was pretty big with kids here in Japan. Actually I remember it was big in Canada too, in the 3rd grade way back in 1984 I had a few cherished erasers shaped like various things that I kept in my desk at school.

Here you could get them out of those Gachopon vending machines. Wild Gunma here is so small that the eraser is basically just a generic rectangle that looks nothing like a Wild Gunman cart:
The larger ones though look pretty cool and the erasers themselves are miniature versions of the cart, like Dig Dug here (next to a regular Famicom cart for scale):
I got about a dozen or so of these in the lot, they are all games released early in the Famicom`s life so I think these probably came out in 1985 or 86 at the latest. A very neat little thing that I will never ever in a million years be using to actually erase anything.

15 comments:

  1. These are probably the greatest thing I have ever seen. I demand to see them all!

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  2. THey are pretty cool aren`t they? My next post I will photgraph all of them!

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  3. Sweet.
    Never knew those existed.
    I knew they made some that look like the game & watch though.

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  4. Yeah, I think I have seen those Game & Watch ones too. Next on my shopping list:)

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  5. Man, that's pretty awesome, especially that Dig Dug one.

    Do they have any that look like actual Famicoms?

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  6. Actually, yes they do. One of the ones I got, which came in a Mario Bros. cart box, was shaped like a Famicom. I will have to put some photos of all of them up.

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  7. Those are awesome :) I remember we had a similar trend in Australia in the 80s - I remember Transformers and Garfield erasers in the early 80s, and then TMNT ones in the late 80s :)

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  8. Is there an online place to buy this awesome errasers? :)

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  9. That's just wicked awesome!! Hook us up man!

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  10. My experience with these sorts of novelty erasers is that if you do try to erase anything with them it will take about a million years just to get it done. :)

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  11. Sean - yes, I remember the Garfield ones!

    Cleber - they sometimes show up on Ebay for 8 or 9$ each.

    Famicom Freak - thanks! I will try to track down some cheap ones I can put in my sales thread:)

    gsilverfish - too true, these are for display rather than use:)

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  12. Eraser technology certainly advanced between Wild Gunman and Dig Dug. By the way, my FamicomWorld package arrived (this is Jascony), thanks! I think Ikki has gotten an unfairly bad reputation. The game DOES suck, but it reminds me of 53 Stations of the Tokaidou so that's a good thing.

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  13. Awesome find! Please do a photo of the other ones if you can!

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  14. Nightmare Bruce - cool, I`m glad it got there! Ikki is indeed a bit 53 stations of the Tokaidou-esque:)

    JPx72 - thanks, I will put some more pics in a future post, I do like these things quite a bit.

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