ADDICTING FACTS ABOUT NINTENDO
Added on: 19th Nov 2016
NINTENDO’S GLOBAL REVENUE HAS SURPASSED
AN ASTONISHING $5.5 BILLION ACCORDING TO FORBES
MIYAMOTO’S FIRST NES GAME NEVER CAME TO
THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE OF ITS DEMONIC
CHARACTERS. DEVIL WORLD WAS PRETTY MUCH
A PAC-MAN CLONE AND WAS BANNED BECAUSE
THE PROTAGONIST KILLED DEMONS WITH THE
POWER OF THE CRUCIFIX AND THE BIBLE
NINTENDOGS WERE INSPIRED BY A SHETLAND
SHEEPDOG NAMED PIKKU. FOR THE RECORD,
PIKKU BELONGED TO WHO ELSE? SHIGERU
MIYAMOTO, NINTENDO’S FAMOUS GAME DESIGNER
NINTENDO HAD THE SAME PRESIDENT FOR MORE
THAN FIFTY-FIVE YEARS, LONGER THAN ANY
OTHER VIDEOGAME COMPANY IN HISTORY. THE
LATE HIROSHI YAMAUCHI WAS PRESIDENT AND
CHAIRMAN OF NINTENDO FROM 1949 UNTIL 2005,
DURING WHICH TIME HE BECAME ONE OF THE
RICHEST MEN IN JAPAN WITH A NET WORTH
OF $2.7 BILLION.
THE MOST POPULAR SYMBOL OF VIDEO GAMING
THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERY MAJOR VIDEOGAME
COMPANY USES NOWADAYS, THE “CROSS” D-PAD,
WAS CREATED IN 1982 FOR NINTENDO’S DONKEY KONG
DURING THE EARLY SIXTIES ONE OF NINTENDO’S
MANY AMBITIOUS ATTEMPTS TO MAKE IT BIG
INCLUDED A “LOVE HOTEL,” WHERE ADULTS COULD
RENT ROOMS BY THE HOUR AND YOU KNOW . . .
HAVING SOME FUN BEFORE GAMING WAS COOL
ALSO DURING THE SAME DECADE, NINTENDO
TRIED TO IMPORT THE CLASSIC WESTERN
GAME TWISTER TO JAPAN BUT THE WHOLE
PROJECT FAILED MISERABLY
IN 2007 A RADIO STATION IN SACRAMENTO
LAUNCHED A CONTEST WITH THE CATCHY TITLE
“HOLD YOUR PEE FOR A WII.” THE CONTEST
REQUIRED LISTENERS TO DRINK AS MUCH WATER
AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT USING THE BATHROOM.
THE WHOLE THING ENDED TRAGICALLY WHEN
TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD JENNIFER STRANGE
DIED OF WATER INTOXICATION
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