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According to the Wikipedia page (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_El...) there was a contest in which you could win a trip to the Daytona 500 - I suspect the jacket may be a consolation prize for that, especially since it's made in USA which is quite rare. but the entry form is blurry and I can't confirm!

You're right, this is one of the consolation prizes. I did a text search for Daytona 500 at @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social 's archives and found this ad from Computer Gaming World issue 80 which mentions the jacket.

A specific ad for the NES / GB contest was featured in a Game Players' special, they could win a jacket or an LCD version of the game:

Fun jacket for me regardless of what it's from/why it exists, but I am curious about it, and curious how it wound up in Japan - if it was from the contest, maybe they had leftovers that got sent to staff in Japan? Presumably the contest was from the Konami US side. But that may not be its origin!

I would say being made in the usa at that time was pretty common for that kinda corporate logo bomber jacket. According to in-depth studies of me geeking out on 90s corporate swagger for software companies n such (And whenever my inner redneck nascar DNA activates from time to time)

Yeah, that's what makes me thing it is legit/from the era. It was certainly more common then (maybe more common than I thought?)

I want to hear the story of where you found this and when

Oh, that story is simple and boring: 1) the ogikubo bookoff+ mens department 2) yesterday

Incredible

Page 1 - "Even if you don't have the point standings for Daytona, you can still win a Bill Elliott/Konami Racing Team jacket or a Bill Elliott NASCAR Racing™ LCD hand held game." It's probably a prize from this event? I can't find an image though. archive.org/details/vide...

Finding this in Japan seems to be the odd part considering the game wasn't developed by Konami themselves, wasn't developed in Japan, and wasn't released there either as far as I can tell. There has to be some interesting story there

All I know is I need to rapidly change up what I’m doing on Knitwise rn

oh some of these are nice though

Oh yeah I’m definitely going to make one or more of them… but which *first?*

here is a clue i noticed: that jacket is sick as hell idk if that'll help but i did notice that!

that was in fact one of the first things I noticed about it, and the 2nd was that it fits me well! so yeah, it is coming home with me~