"Love Tester"

[Boo Destroyer]

In Pikmin 2, the Treasure Gauge item (that goes off when you get closer to treasure) is this "Love Tester" thing:



And coincidentally (not quite), I've come across this exact same thing in WarioWare: Twisted! as one of the souvenirs:



And now, putting two and two together...

www.handheldmuseum.com/Nintendo/LoveTester.htm

Apparently, it's one of Nintendo's older toys/products from around 1969. Open to interpretation, if you will.

[The Qu]

Fry has both of those. He doesn't have a screenshot of the Pikmin 2 cameo tho. Looking again, its the only treasure cameo that doesn't have an accompanying screen.
EDIT: No, I take that back,. he doesn't have one for teh Network Mainbrain, a GC computer chip. Plus, there is a typo in the ROB section; it says there are four Gyro treasures when there are only three. Later it corrects itself.

[Fryguy64]

I got a lot of conflicting info about Pikmin 2

But yeah, I've been doing quite a bit of looking into Nintendo's toys, and have found a few interesting things. Did you know that Mach Rider was the name of a Nintendo toy long before it was a game? There's a few bits like that. Or that Nintendo had a Rubix-style puzzle called Ten Million from 1980 that they have recently updated and released in Japan over the Club Nintendo scheme?

Oh yes. It's all very cool.

[Dasher Misire]

Nintendo's toys often appear in stuff involving Wario, but not just in his games. I of course refer to his customized Ultra Hand in Power Tennis.

[wanderingshadow]

Apr 23, 2008 14:09:06 GMT -5 Dasher Misire said:

Nintendo's toys often appear in stuff involving Wario, but not just in his games. I of course refer to his customized Ultra Hand in Power Tennis.

That's because Wario is a creation of Gunpei Yokoi's team, as I recall.

[Deleted]

This was in Wario Ware Twisted IIRC as one of the souvenirs.