ADDICTING FACTS ABOUT NINTENDO EVERY GAMER SHOULD KNOW

WHEN NINTENDO WAS FOUNDED IN 1889 ONE OF

ITS ORIGINAL AND MOST POPULAR PRODUCTS WERE

PLAYING CARDS. FOR THIS REASON, THEY STILL SELL

THEM TODAY IN LIMITED EDITIONS

NINTENDO 64 WAS A GROUND-BREAKING CONSOLE,

BEING THE FIRST TO FEATURE 3D GRAPHICS.

IT WAS ALSO THE LAST MAJOR CONSOLE TO

USE CARTRIDGES

IT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN REPORTED THAT THE

GAME BOY WAS THE MAIN INFLUENCE AND

INSPIRATION FOR THE BMO GADGET IN CARTOON

NETWORK’S ADVENTURE TIME SERIES

THE GAME BOY CONSOLE WAS THE SECOND

HANDHELD SYSTEM RELEASED BY NINTENDO.

THE GAME & WATCH WAS RELEASED IN 1980

BUT DIDN’T HAVE ANY OUTSTANDING SUCCESS

SHIGERU MIYAMOTO, LEGENDARY VIDEOGAME

DESIGNER (SUPER MARIO BROS., THE LEGEND

OF ZELDA, DONKEY KONG), HAS HAD GAMES ON

EVERY NINTENDO CONSOLE; HIS EARLIEST WORK

APPEARED IN ARCADE GAMES IN THE LATE

SEVENTIES. TIME HAS CALLED HIM THE

“STEVEN SPIELBERG OF VIDEO GAMES.”

VERY FEW PEOPLE, HOWEVER, ARE AWARE

THAT MIYAMOTO ORIGINALLY WANTED TO BE A

CARTOONIST BUT ABANDONED MANGA COMICS

BECAUSE HE FELT THAT HE WASN’T GOOD

ENOUGH TO COMPETE WITH SOME OF THE

BEST ILLUSTRATORS IN THE FIELD

NINTENDO ATTEMPTED TO BECOME LEGO’S

GREATEST COMPETITION AT SOME POINT BY

BUILDING ITS OWN BRICK SYSTEM CALLED N&B

BLOCKS. JUDGING FROM THE FACT THAT NOT MANY

PEOPLE (IF ANY AT ALL) KNOW OR REMEMBER

ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SHOULD TELL YOU ABOUT

ITS LACK OF COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

AS OF MARCH 2016, ALL MODELS OF NINTENDO DS

COMBINED HAVE SOLD NEARLY 160 MILLION UNITS

WORLDWIDE. THIS MAKES THE DS THE BIGGEST

SELLING HANDHELD CONSOLE TO DATE.

THE COMPANY’S FIRST VENTURE INTO VIDEO

GAMES CAME WHEN IT SECURED THE RIGHTS

TO DISTRIBUTE THE MAGNAVOX ODYSSEY

CONSOLE IN JAPAN IN 1974