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Looking Back at 1996: Nintendo’s Fall

Jeromy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:54:05 +0000

“For the last two generations, Nintendo’s primary consoles landed second and third in the three-way leg races for console supremacy.”

via Edge Online.

Game Console Prototypes

Jeromy — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:23:49 +0000

Lots of cool pictures of prototype consoles in this thread, many of them from Nintendo.

via DigitiPress Forums.

VIDEO GAMES ARE BACK – AND IN A BIG WAY

Jeromy — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:38:12 +0000

“He said Nintendo of America expects about $600 million in sales this year, compared with $300 million in 1986, and will boost its market share to 80 percent from 70 percent last year. Atari, Sega and INTV are the main competitors.”

via SeattlePI.

$17,000 Mario Kart Arcade

Jeromy — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:25:45 +0000

While watching an episode of Game Center CX I saw this arcade machine that I did not now existed. In the video you are given a printed card that works in the Mario Kart arcade with your stats and can be put into any other Mario Kart machine to retrieve the stats. Anyone seen one of these?

“MARIO KART ARCADE GP, offers classic Mario Kart action with 11 characters. Familiar Mario KartÃ‚Â® characters like Mario, Luigi, Peach and Wario tear up the track with characters available only in the arcade modelÃ¢â‚¬Â¦. Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Blinky. Each character has unique driving abilities so youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll have to try them all.”

via Discount Arcade

My Famicase Exhibition

Jeromy — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:51:59 +0000

“This year, My Famicase Exhibition is 58 carts strong. Like a lot of art, some of the cartridges are social commentary, and some are even politically charged like Bush Jr. from Tokyo-based British designer Hawken King. In an interesting twist, King has created Donkey Kong websites for marketing in Europe.”

via Kotaku

Nintendo Training 1991

Jeromy — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:00:46 +0000

A Nintendo training video from 1991 teaching retail workers how to handle customers with defective Nintendo products.

via YouTube

EU Court Reduces Nintendo Antitrust Fine

Jeromy — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:51:22 +0000

The commission, Europe’s antitrust agency, fined Nintendo for anticompetitive behavior, along with seven of its European distributors, after it found they had taken part in an agreement aimed at keeping lower-priced U.K. products from being sold elsewhere in the European Union between 1991 and 1998.

via .com.

500 Pounds of Quarters – Donkey Kong

Mike — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:15:38 +0000

Steve Wiebe, famed King of Kong underdog, just got 500 more pounds of incentive.

UGO is reporting that Stride Gum is offering the one-time Donkey Kong champ $10,001 in quarter if he’s able to beat Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high score. The current score sits at 1,050,200.

via Kotaku

MushroomKingdom :: Firefox Add-ons

Jeromy — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:32:28 +0000

MushroomKingdom is a theme for all of the Super Mario Bros. fans out there. It features a landscape-style background, colorful icons with personality, and pipe scrollbars. Large icons are 32px and small are 24px.

via Firefox Add-ons

Nintendo rules out making Gameboy-phone

Jeromy — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:47:12 +0000

“Telephony is not in our wheelhouse,” Reggie Fils-Aime said. “It’s not something I anticipate us getting into.”

via TechRadar UK.