Nintendo's Bumpy Road To Gaming Greatness

The history of Nintendo includes a love hotel, instant rice, and a beloved video game that arcade owners called Honkey Dong. A little console known as the Famicom (and, eventually, the NES, or Nintendo Entertainment System) was a key inflection point in Nintendo's history. Nintendo's early days and the business struggles of Atari may not have inspired much confidence, but a game designer named Shigeru Miyamoto and some savvy business decisions made it nearly synonymous with video games. Website: http://www.mentalfloss.com  Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mental_floss  Facebook: https://facebook.com/mentalflossmagazine Music By: Nicolas Bosovic & Tom Hillock Clarke Nicholas & Marius De La Mer Klaus Oberheim & Dave Odyssey Franck Bernard Woodbridge Maya Monique De La Vega Kurt G Hoffman Loic Farrouk Ghanem Sylvain André Phillipe Soulier, Paul Jonathan Ivan Vials, Edward John Campbell Ashcroft, Emmanuel Christophe Hoepffner James William & Timothy Warburton Images: Wikimedia Commons Getty Flickr Wikimedia Commons Public Domain “Cards” (Tofugu) “King Kong” (Monsieur X) “NES” (Evan-Amos)“Famicom” (Evan-Amos) “Gameboy” (Evan-Amos) “NES 101” (Evan-Amos) “Zapper” (Evan-Amos) “Famicom keyboard” (Evan-Amos) “Topload” (Evan-Amos) “Sonobe” (投稿者がファイル作成) “Atari 2600” (Evan-Amos) “Toys ‘R’ Us” (Raysonho) “Power Pad” (Evan-Amos) CC 1.0 “Famicom2” (Muband) CC 2.0 “Advanced Video Sysem” (Russell Bernice and Chris Donlan) “Miyamoto” (Vincent Diamante) “Warshaw” (Czar) “Buried games” (taylorhatmaker) “Landfill” (taylorhatmaker) CC 3.0 “ROB” (Evan-Amos) “Teddy Ruxpin” (Mathue) “Game and watch” (ThePViana) Getty “Businessmen” (Ian Showell) “Rice” (hxyume) “Having fun” (OJO Images) “TV” (Fox Photos)“Affair” (ShaneKato) “Spielberg” (Evening Standard) “Pacman” (Yvonne Hemsey) “Arcade” (Ed Kashi) “Space Invaders2” (Sean Gallup) “Paul Blart” (Tom Pennington) “E.T.” (Kevin Winter) “Donkey Kong” (Andrew H. Walker) “Nintendo games” (David Greedy) “NYC” (Andrew Correia) “Mookie Wilson” (Ronald C. Modra) “Sears” (Tim Boyle) “Geoffrey” Justin Sullivan) “FAO Schwarz” (Chris Hondros) “Big controller” (John Phillips) “Movie theater” (Orlando/Three Lions) “Japan countryside” (Print collector) “Barking” (primeimages) “Popeye” (MGM Studios) “Mario” (John T. Barr) “Call center” (webphotography) “Fred Savage” (George Rose) “Miyamoto2” (Mark Davis) Flickr CC 2.0 “Ninja Gaiden” (Chris Harrison)“Atari boxes” (Grant Hutchinson) “Mario games” (Jack-Benny Persson) “Link” (GogDog) “Samus” (Jared Cherup) “Mario figure” (Willis Lam) “Famicom cartridges” (Alex Watson) “Topload2” (...ven y siente el RUIDO !) “Duckhunt” (Chris Harrison) “Orange zapper” (Dmitri Robert) “Side load” (Martin Bergesen) “Power glove” (timdeer) “NES Advantage” (Mr._Z) “Back of boxes” (Brian Ochalla) “Castlevania” (Adrian Electrolit) “Excitebike” (Chris Harrison)


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