Legend of Zelda Historical Pins Collection (click for a larger version. Nintendo isn’t the only company that will be celebrating The Legend of Zelda’s 25th anniversary; Takara Tomy is honoring Zelda with 16 commemorative pins, each based on Japanese boxart from the series’ first NES release to the Ocarina of Time 3D remake.

They’re sold randomly from gashapon dispensers in Japan, but NCSX is selling all of them for $68.90 before shipping/handling, which is crazy bucks. It would be much cheaper if you went out and got a Badge-A-Mint, and just made your own pins — you could also creates ones for the games missing from this collection: Skyward Sword, Link’s Awakening DX, Link’s Crossbow Training, The Faces of Evil, The Wand of Gamelon, and Zelda’s Adventure.

Buy: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: Our Ocarina of Time 3D preview

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FYPBlog’s Artist Pin Set, featuring Poke-pin designs by Maré Odomo, Ian Anderson, Nina “Mis0HAPPY” Nguyen, Byron B., and Meteor Night artist Ashley Davis. Five buttons with super-cute Pokemon art — and proof that somebody likes Jynx!

FYPBlog is accepting pre-orders of the five 1.5”, metallic buttons through June 8. A full set costs $15.

Buy: Pokemon Black/White games and DSi bundles

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: More Pokemon posts

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Blue Badger button set, by Etsy’s vickinator. The perfect gift for the person in your life who is

a) a true Phoenix Wright devotee
b) unable to express emotions without visual aids
c) me

See also: Phoenix Wright candy

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Five Cave Story pins by Benjamin White, the same talented craftster behind the Guadia Quest and Haggleman buttons, as well as the NSFW Lucky Lucy cross-stitch.

He also recently did a pin for Mother 3’s Kumatora, too:

See also: Cave Story tribute art from Zanpan

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The Legend of Zelda rupee pins by Button Arcade.

Alanna “cafeganesha” Hauser designed, ordered, and will trade 500 of these pins with other “buttoneers” at the upcoming Penny Arcade Expo.

The exchanging of buttons is a PAX tradition for Penny Arcade forumers, helping identify the community’s members from the other tens of thousands of conference attendees. You can see more ideas for button designs here.

See also: Tiny Cartridge buttons

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I’m happy to announce the winners of our Super Dodge Ball/“Washing Day” DS Cover giveaway!

imaginarythomas gets a Virtual Console copy of Super Dodge Ball for his (randomly chosen, but endearing) winning comment about Retro Game Challenge:

“yes. Yes. YES. YES!!!”

And jennatar gets the DS cover for this helpful note in our Ninjatown post, also randomly chosen: “Preordering Ninjatown from Amazon gets you a sweet DS skin, also.”

Both winners also get some Tiny Cartridge buttons much like (but not necessarily identical to) the ones seen here! Congratulations to both of you, and we encourage the rest of you to keep, uh, wanting us to give you stuff, and keep commenting on TC!

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