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Nintendo Retrospective: 120 years

 
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'Next month, Activision celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. Thirty years? That's an eternity in videogame years. But it is hardly the proverbial old man on the porch that spends the afternoon screaming at kids on them blasted rollie-skates. Did you know that there is a videogame company older than the Model T? It's Nintendo, which was founded this month in 1889. That's only a little over twenty years following the conclusion of the American Civil War.

Now technically, it's only been in the videogame trade since the mid-seventies, but for its entire 120 years, Nintendo has been in the gaming business. Founder Fusajiro Yamauchi started Nintendo as a small producer of Hanafuda (which translates to "flower cards") cards, a card game in Japan that was accepted by the government as an alternate to Western-style numbered cards that were associated with gambling. Thanks to their beautiful designs, Nintendo's Hanafuda cards gained popularity and lead Yamauchi to turn the single-person operation into a multi-employee enterprise.'

A taste of IGN's Nintendo Retrospective, which reflects upon some history at Nintendo, including a timeline of game-industry-defining events of the last 25 years.

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That card game is on the DS on 42 All-Time Classics.
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MugaHay said: That card game is on the DS on 42 All-Time Classics.


Oh really now?
Metroid Prime Trilogy
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KK1387 said:

MugaHay said: That card game is on the DS on 42 All-Time Classics.


Oh really now?



Yep. Koi Koi.
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That's quite interesting.
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MugaHay said:

KK1387 said:

MugaHay said: That card game is on the DS on 42 All-Time Classics.


Oh really now?


Yep. Koi Koi.


*'buys'*

Dark, it is. :R
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