Happy Birthday Nintendo!

[MikeandRaph87]

The company is probably widely believed to have been started in the late 70s' but in truth today the former playing card company celebrates its 125 birthday! A Japanese company that truly evolved and made itself an international giant still rides high a century and a quarter later.


https://games.yahoo.com/news/happy-birthday-nintendo-company-turns-002300580.html

[DarkFell]

Interesting. Nintendo is really that old? *reads article* Dang.

[Peanut]

Nintendo - Doomed since 1889

[oldmanwinters]

I respectfully played through Contra on my NES tonight and rebagged many of my SNES and Game Boy games. Happy birthday, Big N; I'm glad you're still around even if I can no longer be an exclusively Sega fanboy.

[CyberCubed]

So sad to see Nintendo in their current state where the Wii-U is struggling to push Dreamcast numbers. Never thought I'd see the day.

Thank god the Wii-U still has a quality lineup of great first party games, because third party suppose is almost completely dead and the Wii-U is becoming Dreamcast 2.

[Peanut]

Except Nintendo now and Dreamcast era Sega are nowhere near the same thing? You clueless sh*t. Stop talking about things you don't understand.

[XERO]

Nintendo - Doomed since 1889

If this keeps up, they won't last an eon.

[CyberCubed]

Except Nintendo now and Dreamcast era Sega are nowhere near the same thing? .

I'm talking about the console itself, not the company. Pretty sure the total Wii-U worldwide sales is only at around 6-7 million last time they reported it. Nintendo has billions in the bank, but the Wii-U would still end up selling poorly regardless.

Its hard to believe but at this point I don't even think the Wii-U can reach Gamecube numbers which was around 21 million by the end of its lifespan.

[Prowler]

Happy birthday to the company that made me love video games.

[Peanut]

So sad to see Nintendo in their current state where the Wii-U is struggling to push Dreamcast numbers. Never thought I'd see the day.

Yes. Clearly you were only talking about the console and not the company. Clown.

If you were talking about the console only you would have said you were sad to see the Wii U in its current state.

[arkangel]

Wow, 125 years eh?
I thought I was old, having won and Atari at a mall easter egg hunt when I was 7. Would love to see the 1891 console.
"Abraham... push the reset button. It's the round stone on the left.."

[DarkFell]

Nice article man. It was cool to see the old wall plaque and to know that the now game console giant had some humble beginnings.

I've mostly been a SEGA and Playstation individual but I can also retrace my steps back to those times where I did play with stuff from Nintendo as well such as my old Game Boy Color, my old N64 system, and the few times that I've played with others on their Nintendo systems.

So yeah, an old trading card company that now does gaming systems and games. Who would'va thunk of that back in those old days?

[blindturtle02]

I have very fond memories of Nintendo being the first game console I ever played. Great history lesson surrounding the company. I had no idea it had been around for such a long time. Happy birthday, controllers consisting of A, B, Start, Select, and dpads. Happy birthday, power pad. Happy birthday, little laughing dog who used to annoy me in the duck hunt game. Now I wish I was one of those guys from Cake Boss so I could make a Nintendo cake complete with controllers consisting of modeling chocolate. Now I'm in the mood to play Manhattan Project and eat chocolate cake.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Nintendo - Doomed since 1889


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