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- iluvatar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20The video game market in America had already crashed, so Nintendo was wary of releasing something that actually looked like a video game console. Hence, we got the VCR style NES.
- doug_brit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16"A huge success in Japan, this would go on to become the NES in the states. This is from 1983".
Wow that was the NES, I want to say cool, but dude ours was a gray lunchbox, I'm not sure what brought on the design change. Then again this was 3 years embarresingly before I was born, but before I get dugg down we all had to start somewheres! I was just a baby when my family got its first NES, certainly does bring back memories. - edicius, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22http://duggmirror.com/gaming_news/Pre_1980_Nintendo_Toys/
- Catachresis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10And check out the little baseball-firing machine - that's in there too... and so is the cowboy with the to shoot him with. Anyone spot any other WW oddities?
It's great that Nintendo have a little cheeky nod to their past in their games. Now we need characters in PS3 games wearing big-ass old clunky yellow Walkman tape players... - n0ctem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Anyone else notice the blue "grabber" that appears in Warioware?
- cosmotron, on 10/12/2007, -12/+20http://duggmirror.com/
- ViRaZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Anyone find it weird that the track ends up in the apes crotch?
http://squirl.info/asset/show/344?c=ToysAndGame&cid=465&i=7 - jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I had the Famicom... it was awesome. Had a cooler geekier feel than the NES. And you had somewhere to put your joypads...
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I wonder how much some of that stuff is worth...
- TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Stop digging people down because they post the full dugg mirror link. As long as it works it doesn't matter.
- 88iou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Anyone else notice the blue "grabber" that appears in Warioware?"
There's an interesting story behind that.
From "Nintendo" at Wikipedia.com:
"In 1970, Hiroshi Yamauchi was observing a hanafuda factory. He noticed an extending arm, which was made by one of their maintainance engineers, Gunpei Yokoi, for his own amusement. Yamauchi ordered Yokoi to develop it as a proper product for the Christmas rush."
So the guy who made that arm ( I think he was responsible for R.O.B; he also designed the Game Boy and the Virtual Boy and he created Metroid). - ProfessorRiffs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It was because those Japanese people are crazy...
- Valnar300, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Is it just me or do those NES controllers kind of look like tape cassettes?
- ukiya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wholly crap that's a good find! I wonder how Nintendo went from plastic toys to electronic entertainment so quickly?
- achoo5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh the beam light gun advance SP!
http://squirl.info/asset/show/438?c=ToysAndGame&cid=465&i=3 - ollj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone for a game of Hanafuda?
- dogbowl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey guys. Took me 3 days to notice that my collection had made it up here on Digg. Cool!
If anyone can help translate some of the stuff, let me know... - DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah Gunpei Yokoi is the one we should thank for most of the toys you see on that page, and much more.
Yokoi is also responsible for early Nintendo electro-mechanical light-guns arcade machines, and he's also invented the Game & Watch devices. Essentially, he's the guy that lead Nintendo into the video-game industry.
It's safe to say that without Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo would be a very different company today.
May he rest in peace... - levyjl1988, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow that's pretty old stuff, Nintendo came a long way from then... anyways that love tester thing has a chemical, it just depends on how much heats is being transfered from your hands, so if you seen that i arcades or carnivals, it's a rip off...
- ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Nintendo's paying homage to its ideas. I really dig the light gun stuff.
But for every two "brilliant" ideas there's a mediocre or ridiculously goofy one. Kind of like their hardware market. - ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1crap, hit the wrong reply link. That should've been in response to jellygraph below.
- YoThisBAlec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1True that ***** man, true that *****.
He's one of the most influential and also the most over-looked figure in video gaming history. I think that he's the one who invented the D-Pad as well. - ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Got one too. The older systems are interesting to have since they're so other-worldly compared to their Western versions, whereas today the same console design gets released everywhere. The Famicon and PCEngine are literally half the size of the NES and TurboGrafx16.
- Stan64, on 12/02/2008, -0/+0I'm searching for a complete list of toys, and I really want to see your gallery, but it have been down for weeks now.
Do you have any new links? - JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The digg effect is, erm... Coming into effect.
- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I remember I had a nintendo watch that let you play starfox on it. That thing was awesome, I wonder where it went..... =(
- dillonish, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Japan has always been wayy ahead of our technology. I'm tired of that big Eurasian mass of a continent making everything, then giving it to us.
My friend, who recently came from Greece, said that last year, while living there, he had a cell phone with a bult-in 4 MP camera, and 2GB of storage, along with a bundled iTunes program. - ilovemusic, on 10/12/2007, -22/+16http://duggmirror.com/gaming_news/Pre_1980_Nintendo_Toys/
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