With its colourful cast of iconic characters, Nintendo has released some pretty incredible box art covers over the years that can instantly take you back to happier, nostalgic times. If you fancy showing off your love for one of these gorgeous covers, here's an equally incredible way of doing just that.
Etsy seller Pigminted, based in Indiana, US, is selling a number of amazing wooden depictions of our favourite games. There are GameCube classics like Zelda: The Wind Waker and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Game Boy cartridges for games like Pokémon Red and Blue, as well as SNES carts, N64 carts, Pokémon cards, and more.
Check these out:
The seller says that the products are hand-made and engraved – so don't expect them to be cheap – and can be purchased from Pigminted's Etsy store here. Some include options to be personalised if you're planning on giving one of these as a gift. They're just stunning, aren't they?
Have you had a browse of the store? Which design's your favourite? We can't stop eyeing up that Paper Mario carving...
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Christ !!! Incredible
these look amazing
also all these all need HD SWITCH ports
(Edit:Second)
My cousin would flip if he saw that wooden Charizard card
This is some amazing work, and very clever designing. This guy deserves to make some serious cash this holiday
Some people are AWESOME!
The creator of these carvings is one of them.
Man this is amazing, how much do they cossstaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAA
These are amazing, very tempted to get one!
The back of the Wind Waker one is legitimately even more impressive. Check it out on the link.
I can't draw a circle and here someone is, making perfect replicas of game cartridges and boxes out of wood.
I wood buy them all.
The prices appear to be very fair to me. Considering it's all handmade.
Amazing pieces! Clearly a lot of work went into them.
They look cool, but I'm slightly shocked no one's mentioned Intellectual Property yet...
So usually when I see these kind of "amazing fanart" articles I'm left a little underwhelmed tbh (barring the odd animation), but those Pokemon carts are fantastic and I want them!
If only you could open the SNES carts to put in the original boards so that they wood work in the consoles.
I’d love to buy one but alas, I wood if I could.
I must reserve my petty cash for the actual, you know, games... but woodcraft does deserve respect, even if the prices are a bit high for me.
@frabbit I was hoping for a Metroid Prime carving, depicting the very image you use for your avatar...
I'm slightly shocked no one's mentioned Intellectual Property yet...
@TryToBeHopeful Are you sure that you're allowed to think about Nintendo's IP? Better check with them first. The CCP is working on thought detectors which will punish you for such deviancy, as they clearly should, in a troll's case.
Where’s the trio of SMB for NES? That I’d take
I would love a Golden Sun box art one!
Wow... anyone else end up scrolling through the Etsy page just to see some of the other work?
@SMUGSLOTH69
I disagree, Paper Mario doesn't need a HD port - it still looks amazing. Just finished playing it on Friday for the first time on a 40inch TV and the Keico HDMI Adapter for the GameCube.
@NintendoPete I guess it doesn't really need to be HD as long as it comes to SWITCH bc people keep praising TTYD and I've never played it but I would love to
Astounding.
@NintendoPete Funny. I'm about to finish TYD on my GameCube via Kaico HDMI adapter. I'm playing on a 50inch 4k TV and the game still looks great.
Should go eBay and sell those...must been done on CNC machine. Either way that takes alot of CAD drawing to do that..
These are all stunning, but £130!? Christ on a unicycle 😑
@COVIDberry @TryToBeHopeful being handmade, unique items they get away under 'fair usage', but they are maybe straddling that line with them being made to order. It's always a grey area.
If they got these manufactured and sold them, that's bad, if they make a competing product such as a fan remake or fan spin-off game, that's bad. Of course the other get out clause is 'satire', but that clearly doesn't apply here. But this feels like it sits in fair usage.
@TryToBeHopeful these look such high quality I reckon Ninty might welcome an official collaboration. I want them all!
Wow. Those look pretty incredible. I want one.
"The seller says that the products are hand-made and engraved",...... Yes, after he converts the images into vector files and feeds them to an automated engraver 🤦🏻♂️ Like anyone believes the dude is manually wittling these out with a knife 😂
But I will say, they look amazing, just a bit pricey.
@beazlen1 Yes, because Nintendo has an amazing history of working with fan-made creations 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’m not particularly fussed, but someone here usually is. I was excited about the Mario 3D all stars manual until I realised it was being charged for. This does seem a bit pricey not to need to be licensed, though...
Old fun games love them so much
@TryToBeHopeful OH NO! PLEASE THINK OF NINTENDO!
HOWEVER will they survive if someone produces woodgrain copies of plastic items they have not sold in 15-20 years?
HOW will they afford to keep paying Miyamoto and Bowser?
@Ogbert I think it is more worrisome here that these are direct copies of official artwork. Maybe the wood medium gets them out of that though. Hopefully they don’t get a cease and desist. If they do, maybe they can come up with some original artwork with the characters.
@HexagonSun
What a coincidence how far are you? Chapter 8 was longer than I expected and the final boss was quite difficult.
@SMUGSLOTH69
2 weeks ago I thought the same until I got lucky and was able to buy Paper Mario TYD for 65€ incl shipping
And here I am hoarding Steelbooks like a plebeian.
After the "steelbooks", these... WOOD be cool.
Don't worry, I was already about to... LEAF.
In all honesty, I love them and they are beautifully made, but I wouldn't want this to become... POPLAR (I couldn't resist). Living in a forest myself (and doing some artistic and functional woodwork with dead trees and having a couple of amazing animal skulls I found), I don't like trees to be cut down or animals to be killed for any "reason". When they die naturally, that's something else.
@NintendoPete awwwwww... lucky
@SMUGSLOTH69
Yeah - but a few months ago I got scammed and paid 60€ and never got the game. But now I am quite happy. Still - I loved all the different characters in that game but gameplay-wise I prefer Origami King and its battle system
Omg some of these are super cool. Honestly I am loving more the Final Fantasy Menus then the game boxes and cartridges.
Wowee these re nice I am a huge Twilight Princess fan and they have an amazing replica of it, I wish I had money I wood definitely buy it.
@NintendoPete I'm probably about halfway through chapter 8. At least I think so. It's been several years since the last time I played through it. It's slow going since I only get a chance to play on my days off. I always had good feelings about TYD, but I forgot just how great it actually is. As far as Paper Mario goes, it was the perfect storm.
@NintendoPete wait you think origami king is better skipped out on it but now I might get it.
Loving the WW, StarFox and Pokemon cartridges
@SMUGSLOTH69
I genuinely do - I loved to find all the treasures, Toads and holes. The graphics are awesome and the humor as well. The boss fights are a blast to play. The only thing people dislike is that you don't level up after fighting enemies. Which is not really true. You level up after a boss fight but you can't see it, but you are able to defeat shy guys or koopas with a jump or hammer on the map after defeating the first or 2nd boss without activating the battle modus. So it is more of a hidden levelling up system. I think that was also the case in Color Splash and Sticker Star. I loved it. In fact that was annoying in TYD - you had to fight every goomba in battle modus and were not able to avert it which was a bit annoying.
Outstanding stuff. Respect.
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN
those looks so freaking awesome !
no copyright issues here?
seriously thinking about making a custom order. the artdesign from metal gear solid really fits nice with wood carvings. would love a solid snake carving
I usually can't stand all the gaming chintz - dislike waste & clutter - but these are stunningly beautiful. So much talent.
Chrono Trigger £80 tempted...
@NintendoPete Dang I guess I can add just 1 more thing to my Christmas list but then it'd be over 400$.
£140 is a cheaper than I was expecting as well. Really cool.
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