We love a little bit of area of interest online game historical past right here at Nintendo Life, and the work of Mr Talida (aka Keshi Nook) has caught our consideration on a couple of event. That is the 3D scanning specialist that has ensured uncommon Zelda and Mario figures from the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s stay to combat one other day and now, they’ve turned their consideration to DK.
Celebrating Donkey Kong Nation’s thirtieth anniversary, Mr Talida has been onerous at work scanning the sport’s tie-in Keshi figures (small, unpainted rubber collectible figurines present in gachapon machines) that Bandai produced in Japan in 1995.
There are 15 totally different collectible figurines to take a look at this time, that includes apparent picks like DK, Diddy Kong and Cranky in addition to a few of their animal buddies, together with Chomps, Winky the Frog and Expresso. As with Mr Talida’s earlier work, these figures could be fairly a Uncommon (*ba dum, tsssh*) discover today, however their 3D scans at the moment are obtainable by way of the Web Archive for dwelling printing or simply common appreciation.
Heck, there’s even a brand new Keshi Nook animation accompanying this assortment that recreates the unique DKC opening with the scanned collectible figurines:
You may discover our protection of Mr Talida’s Zelda and Mario preservations under, or you possibly can head over to the Keshi Nook Web Archives web page to see much more determine scans, together with a spread of Dragon Quest III designs.