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YouTube – 1989 Nintendo Cereal System commercial

Mike — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:20:27 +0000

This is the ONLY full 30 second version on the internet! This is a commercial for the Nintendo Cereal System from Ralston-Purina in 1989.

via YouTube – 1989 Nintendo Cereal System commercial.

Happy 20th Birthday, MOTHER!

Jeromy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:26:18 +0000

On this day in 1989, the first MOTHER game was released in Japan, for Nintendo’s Famicom (ie the NES). Very few of you will have played it. Actually, very few of you will have played any games in the series, even the second one, which was the only one ever released outside of Japan, as Earthbound for the Super Nintendo. Which is a shame! They’ll hurt you they’re so charming.

via

Kotaku.

How Nintendo Has Described Itself From ‘87 To ‘09 – Nintendo – Kotaku

Jeromy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:37:31 +0000

Over the years, Nintendo, like most companies, has had to explain what in the world it is at the bottom of the press releases it issues. That description has changed. A lot.

via Kotaku.

The Fall and Rise of Motion Control in Game Consoles

Jeromy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:50:34 +0000

“After E3, it’s no longer just Nintendo throwing money at motion control and looking for new ways to turn our entire bodies into surrogate joypads. Sony unveiled its Ann Summers take on the Wii Remote, while Microsoft gave us a glimpse into a terrifying interactive future where sallow-faced digital children will invite us to molest fish using virtual fingers.”

Via Eurogamer

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.

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

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

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.

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

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