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The Complete History of Nintendo
SlappingOysters writes "Gameplayer are running a comprehensive feature on the history of Nintendo that runs through all 119 years of their existence, from humble card maker to gaming powerhouse. It is documented in chronological order and includes a stack of trivia about the company that will be thoroughly enjoyed by all Nintendo fans. As an interesting side note, it links to a sister article that explores how Mario can improve your sex life."
What does Mario leading to "greater sex" have anything to do with Nintendo's history? On a side note... I shoulda been a plumber. I never knew that plumbing and jumping would lead to better sex. Thanks for the life tip Slashdot!
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Fellow geeks. Mario cannot 'improve' your sex life.
Most mentions of Mario only have a deleterious effect on same.
Instead, be cool, don't appear desperate, and lower your sights. Unless you are horrific, you'll do fine. Just don't rely on Mario.
"Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
8 pages worth of stuff, 1/3 of which is denied by Privoxy/Adblock, and no "print version" in sight?
At least some of the big journos have done something right. Print version style sheets.
Okay, rant over.
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is it the mushroom as a phallic symbol?
Again. The first time was bad enough, but now my wife won't stop talking about her little "Italian Stallion." And why did Luigi have to tape the whole thing?
It is more of a timeline of the company that ends at 2006. Although, if anyone is interested in a good account of Nintendo's history, check out the book Game Over: Press Start to Continue by David Sheff. It is a bit dated, and doesn't cover anything newer than the n64 (and that depends on when the copy you look at was produced) but it goes into great depth regarding Nintendo's history.
video gaming has never, doesn't, and will never improve the sex life of any one. unless it happens to be a female who plays video games, in which case every male video game player wishes to have sex with her.
"they didn't know it was impossible, so they did it!" - Mark Twain
checks url.... hmmm, still slashdot
I guess I dont understand this mario bit
Or am I the only one grossed out by masturbating to pixelated plumbers....?
Your wife had sex with Bob Hoskins? I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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Should be concentrating on learning, say, the history of Western Civ or the ancients.
Now, I'm off for some more BF2.
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Capt. Lou Albano. But at least he used a rubber... band.
I actually rtfa and the Gamecube isn't even mentioned. They just go from GBA to DS to Wii.
hmm... DOA Volleyball... I'd say it doesn't improve any two people's sex lives
Thank you Dave Raggett
Is anybody else having problems with this site's horrible layout?
There's some sort of option to log in with an ad in a column blocking a large chunk of the text...
Idiots. This is not how you design a web page, ever.
See for youself
here
This looks like an enhanced version of the company history Nintendo gives to the press, the one you can see on the European site too:
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/service/corporate_2001.html
Much more interesting, at least if you speak French, is the "History of Nintendo", so far only one book has been published:
http://editionspixnlove.fr/collectiondetail.php?ID=6
The book is 228 pages long and showcases 500 Nintendo toys and games prior to 1980 (took them 6 years of research!). The whole series will have 6 volumes totalling more than 1400 pages. Flabbergasting I daresay.
At least Albano made a better Mario than, say, Bob Hoskins.
neat stuff, most I knew already but one tiny bitty problem....I thought the game cube was Nintendo's?
Was it so bad as a system that the CD-I was shown (and that really sucked) and it wasn't?
Using Opera 9.27 here, and unfortunately I can't read the page because the content all loads under the ads and crap on the right.
Hate it when that happens.
http://www.tenjou.net/
From TFA: 1989 - The Wizard movie is released in the US. Starring Fred Savage, Christian Slater and Beau Bridges, it chronicles the story of a young boy with a talent for videogames who enters a Nintendo tournament in Florida. Nintendo uses it as a vehicle to promote the NES and unveil Super Mario Bros 3 in the West.
The tournament was in California (Universal Studios, Hollywood, to be precise), thank you very much. Hence the protagonist incessantly whining "California!" through half the film.
Yes, I saw it in theatres. The announcer's cry of "Super... Mario... Brothers... THREE!!!!" remains one of the more memorable moments of my childhood.
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Is it just me or did they completely skip the GameCube? The timeline went from the N64 to the GBA to the Wii without mentioning anything about the GameCube.
Is this even a complete timeline? Nintendo had a lot of other projects out there that weren't even mentioned in this article.
There seems to be no mention of it in the timeline.
1987 - The Famicom is released in the US and Europe as the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). Selling for $300, it would sell 60 million units worldwide.
Uh... maybe i'm wrong.. but i remember getting my NES x-mas of 1985.... and wikipedia confirms this...
Great "article".. they can't even copy paste well.
Quite amazing how media companies want to have their cake and it it too... Unbelievable: to sue someone for infringement for something they fought to be in the public domain (they were presumably the original infringers, eh?). This is one of the (many) reasons I am in a war against media companies. I have been violating their copyrights as much as I can. If they do not respect the rights of others I won't respect theirs either.
That stupid timeline fails to mention the Gamecube!
where is super mario bros on this timeline ?
Do you know how dreadfully dull Western Civ is? Ever wonder why it's the junior history professors and TAs who get dumped with it in the Universities?
The History of Nintendo is what they do for fun: it's got a manageable subject and it has fascinating resonances in social, political, economic and intellectual history. Western Civ is such a vague, artificial concept that no matter how small you slice it, it's still too big to give people more than a taste of real history. I mean, you can make it fun and enlightening, but it requires real work, and you're left with the nagging doubt about the stuff you had to leave out.
Not only was that not the complete history (as many here have already pointed out), but both articles are rife with spelling and grammar errors.
Gotta love websites that put [AD] a small amount of content [AD] on multiple pages [AD] to up their ad co- [AD] unt.
Does it mention how they illegally controlled the gaming market back in the 80's?
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The site is slashdotted. Same content available here
King Kong was within the pubic domain
I don't know exactly what that means, but it makes me smile....
Yeah, I saw it in the theater too. I spotted another erroneous trivia claim:
Trivia - Star Fox, released in the US in 1993, was the first 3D polygon game to ever appear on a home console.
Not True. EA's F-22 Interceptor (Sega Megadrive) predates Star Fox by two years. It contains no fancy chip; instead, it uses the Megadrive's beefy 68000 main processor to create a fully-polygonal 3D world.
Star Fox's claim to fame is that it has better graphics and a higher framerate than F-22...but it most certainly is not the first polygonal game on a console.
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