The History Of Nintendo Time line!
OK so I have seen alot of BS about the history and time line of Nintendo so I decided to clear some things up and post the true History of Nintendo!
Chances are you never would have guessed that Nintendo opened its company doors back in 1889 as a
Playing card company! They manufactured traditional Japanese Hanafunda playing cards. Back then there name was ” Nintendo Koppai ” After the founder Koppai Nintendo! Later they would drop Koppai and just go with Nintendo! As the years passed Nintendo playing cards started to thrive! They expanded there company and started exporting Traditional 52 card decks to the united States. In
1949 Nintendos Second president died from a stroke and his 21 year old grandson “Hiroshi Yamauchi” was appointed president. Over the
next 20+ years Hiroshi took Nintendo in a different direction by starting a variety of side businesses, including a taxi company, instant rice meals, and even a chain of love hotels!!! Most of these were eventually closed. “go figure” During this time Nintendo also got a contract with Walt Disney to start producing Disney cards! Nintendo’s future course finally began to take shape when it established its first games division in 1969. The company Started producing a bunch of gimmicky toys such as “ULTRA HAND” and “the love tester” These toys where a great success!
The Beginning Of a game Revolution!
In 1977 Saw the first release of Nintendo’s first video game product called “the TV Game 6″ This device was
The corner stone to Nintendo’s gaming success! The TV Game 6 came with 6 different games including the classic pong, hockey, tennis and others! “you can find these on ebay for around $20.00 shipped if you get a good deal” 1977 also saw the initial hiring of Shigeru Miyamoto, who was to work on art for future arcade games! Miyamoto created such gaming characters such as Donkey Kong and Jumpman “AKA Mario” In 1978 Nintendo Releases ” Computer Othello Arcade Game” Which was a pretty big success! Later in 1980 Nintendo Starts Exporting coin operated games to the United States. One Year later Nintendo Releases Its Ultimate Arcade Game Created by our man Shigeru Miyamoto! Donkey Kong! Of course we all know that Donkey Kong was originally supposed to be called Monkey Kong but was F’ed up during Translation! After getting wind of Donkey Kong’s success MCA Decides that Nintendo Was infringing on there copy rights to King Kong and ordered Nintendo to hand over all copy’s of the game! Well on Dec. 1982 The court of New York Distract Judge Robert Sweet Finds in favor of Nintendo! So all copy’s of DK where to stay in play!
“Thank god!” In 1983 Nintendo Releases “Game and Watch” A hand held video game that was a hit! “I actually owned one of these! wish I still had it!”
On July 15 1983 Nintendo Releases “the Family Computer (Famicom)” video game system. The first titles for the system where Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Popeye!
In Fall of 1984 At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nintendo debuts the Advanced Video System (AVS) video game system, with keyboard, music keyboard, tape-storage, wireless controllers, and Zapper gun. Video game distributors are not interested in making any orders. It Wasn’t until June 1985 At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show Nintendo introduces the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It uses a 6502 processor, and generates images with 256×240 resolution in 16 colors. It includes two controllers, a Zapper gun, and a Robotic Operating Buddy
“AKA R.O.B.” On October 1985 Nintendo was released in the United States! The original price was $125.00 and along with the NES Console came 17 game titles released at the same time!
FINALLY WE CAN GET DOWN TO THE SYSTEMS
OK during the duration of the NES system Nintendo released over 1000-1200 games in the United States! Next down the list is the GameBoy! Released in 1989 the portable video game system sold over 100million copy’s during its duration! The gameboy was ran off 4AA batteries and had a 2hour life span before having to replace the batteries. In 1990 Sega caught on the band wagon and released the Sega Master system “AKA Sega Genesis” and blew the NES out of the water! So Nintendo desided to fight back with the Super Famicom released in Japan in 1990 later to be released in the United states as the Super Nintendo or the SNES! The super Nintendo was a console of unprecedented power. In fact, its only major
weakness was a rather pokey main CPU, but this was made up for with a powerful graphics chip and a Sony-devised audio chip that could produce better music than any console yet released. The Super Nintendo was a smash hit in every market, but particularly in Japan. In the US, Nintendo had a lot of catching up to do as Sega’s machine had acquired a good install base thanks to great games and cool advertising. Nonetheless, most records indicate that by 1996 the SNES had outsold the Genesis in the US by about 1 million units. While this was not as decisive a victory as was had in the 8-bit wars, the Super Nintendo remains the favorite console of many players to this day.
Nintendo Fails!
During the Mid-90’s Nintendo was seeing huge success with there SNES system they desided to release a nother system that they thought would change gaming history! “well it did change gaming history! in a bad way!” They desided to release The Virtual Boy! the Virtual Boy was a worldwide disaster. The system washeavily discounted within a year, and software support quickly ended. As it turns out, the Virtual Boy was designed by Gunpei Yokoi, father of the Game Boy and numerous other successful Nintendo products. The Virtual Boy was a rare misstep, but Yokoi received the full brunt of the blame for the machine’s failure. Disgraced, he left the company he had worked at for decades of his life and founded his own R&D firm, which later produced Bandai’s WonderSwan portable gaming system.
Nintendo Strikes Back!
Towards the end of the 16-bit era, there was much buzz about the potential of 32-bit systems. The Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn were on everyone tongues, but how would Nintendo respond? In its characteristic fashion, Nintendo took its good old time in releasing details of its new system. When they finally did, they had a surprise in store: the new Nintendo machine would be 64-bit. The Nintendo 64, as it was called, was to use the same technology as an SGI Graphics workstation, allowing amazingly realistic 3D environments with an unprecedented level of detail. Instead of going down the same path as Sony and Sega Nintendo stayed true to its past by sticking with the cartridges. “I still love my N-64″ the Nintendo64 was released in 1996. Right around the same time Nintendo releases the Gameboy Color! The GBC did not do very well in sales!
Nintendo’s new Portable Game system!
Finally Nintendo releases A new Portable game system! the “Game Boy Advance” The gameboy advance could best be described as a souped-up Super Nintendo that fits in your pocket. While the hardware architecture is completely different than that of that classic system, the actual capabilities of the hardare aren’t that far beyond the SNES’s. Designed primarily to shift colorful sprites, the GBA hardware plays games on par with Nintendo’s 16-bit efforts. However, clever programmers are finding ways to cajole the unit into displaying a fair amount of polygons, so more 3D games are likely in the system’s future. “I remember waiting inline for the release of this!”
The First Nintendo none cartage System!
A brief recap!
The GameCube marked Nintendo’s first compact-disc based system. It also marked the first of Nintendo’s home consoles to have a name that didn’t focus on the word “Nintendo”. The GameCube had an incredibly rough birth. It was an especially difficult transition period for Nintendo, created and released during perhaps the most tumultuous moment in its history. Hiroshi Yamauchi Nintendo’s president of over 50-years, Hiroshi Imanishi Nintendo’s vice-president of nearly 40-years, Minoru Arakawa Nintendo of America’s president of over 20-years and several other longtime executives permanently retired from the company. These departures only served to sever personal ties the corporation had created with important second-party studios such as Rare, Left Field Productions, and Silicon Knights. In response, Nintendo’s new management pursued a stronger relationship with third-party publishers including Capcom, Namco, Sega, Konami, Square Enix and Electronic Arts. Despite this outreach, third-party support has continued its decline and Nintendo’s own software output and attempt at GameCube-Game Boy Advance connectivity has been labeled disappointing compared to prior generations. With heated competition from the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo’s relevance to the older demographic has also continued to diminish, relegating the console’s worldwide sales to third place. Regardless of all the criticism, the GameCube is still home to such inspired innovation as the WaveBird controller and software masterpieces including Super Smash Bros. Melee, Resident Evil 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Im sure you can figure out the rest from this point! Here are some other releases I didnt mention above
Game Boy Light
Game Advance SP
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS lite
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo satellaview
Super Game Boy
