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"Nintendo's history...."

It was started in 1889 a man named Fusajiro Yamauchi in Japan, makes a company called Nintendo who make hand-made playing cards called Hanafunda. Each pack [or deck] contains 48 cards divided into suits of 12, one for each month of the year, and on the cards are painted symbols instead of numbers. Hanafunda becomes incredibly popular and Fusajira decides to hire more staff to produce them. in 1929 Fusajira retires and his son in law, Sekiryo Kaneda, takes over the company. Now Nintendo is the biggest make of playing cards in Japan and in 1949 Hiroshi Yamauchi takes over the company. Ten years ahead Disney and Hiroshi make a deal featuring Disneyís characters, Mickey Mouse etc..., which sell well over 600,000 packs a year and Nintendo is on the up. 1959 and the company changes its name to Nintendo Co.Ltd., which it still has, and Hiroshi begins to take it away from cards towards toys and games. In 1970 one of Nintendos new employees, Gunpei Yokoi is asked to design something for the large Christmas market and he develops the Ultra Hand which is used to pick up skittles and this sells millions!!!! In fact it was so much of a success that Gumpei continues to make a baseball throwing contraption called The Ultra Machine, a periscope named the Ultra Scope, Beam Gun games which are simple light guns and targets with sensitive solar cells and The Love Tester were a girl and boy hold hands to test how much they love each other! After a chat with Gumpei in 1972, Hiroshi has a great idea. Bowling isn't popular in Japan anymore so many unused alleys are scattered throughout the country. Hiroshi says that nintendo should develop their beam guns further and, and create virtual shooting ranges in the un-used alleys. Thereby creating the Laser Clay Shooting System and it becomes a very popular pastime in Japan. Then in 1975, over dinner with a friend, they begin talking about how Atari and Magnavox have created consoles to allow games to be played on T.V. Hiroshi then sees it as the future of Nintendo and in 1977 Nintendo release the Color TV Game 6 which features six different versions of tennis. That year turns into a wonderyear as Nintendo hire Shigeru Miyamoto as a games designer. In 1977 calculators are popular because they are both cheap and small so Gumpei decides to toy with them and... Game and Watch is created!!! These hand held units feature an LCD screen, game and a clock all built into them, and theyíre a hit worldwide. Miyamoto is asked to create a game called Radarscope but he decides to create Donkey Kong instead which is the worldís first Platform game. In the states DK sells over 65,000 units!!! Now Hiroshi decides to bring video to peoples' very own T.V.'s. In 1981 Nintendo begin designing a console named the Famicom (family computer) which was renamed the Nintendo Entertainment System in the UK and USA and at last it's released in 1983. 500,000 of them are sold by the first two months but, unfortunately for Nintendo, it is discovered that many have faulty chips within them which cause certain games to freeze. Nintendo lose millions recauling and fixing faulty machines. Then nintendo begin to take it to the West, so it establishes the Seal of Quality to try and stop rubbish games appearing on it. In 1986 it is at last it is released under the name Nintendo entertainment System [NES]. Outselling all other pitiful opposition with sales with the figure ten of them to one of every other console!!! Metroid is released in Japan but nobody takes to it, but has far more luck in the West were it becomes a firm favourite. By this time the time the NES is the biggest selling toy in America and Zelda is the first lone game to sell over on-million copies. Then, in 1987, Gunpei shows Hiroshi a prototype of the Game Boy which, Hiroshi predicts, will sell over twenty-five million copies in two years. Nintendo's US president, Minoru Arakawa, sees Tetris at an Arcade and realises it would be the perfect title to launch it with. In 1989 the GB is released in Japan with two games, tetris and Super Mario Land, and studies in America show that Mario is more popular then Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse combined!!! Later that year the Super NES is announced and a Hollywood movie, The Wizard, shows children playing a tournament called the Nintendo World Championship. This is also used as an advertisement for the amazing Super Mario Bros. 3 in action! Then in 1990 the Super NES is released in Japan, and, within three days it is sold out. It is then released in the USA in 1991 and itís a massive hit as it's sold with Super Mario World. The GB is finally released in America in 1990 and the Super NES arrives in Europe in 1992. Other events in that year were releases of Super Mario Land 2, A link to the Past, and Super Mario Cart for NES also that year Marios' arch enemy Wario is unveiled. In 1992 development for the Virual Boy begins and announces that it is the Super FX chip that makes the Super NES so much more powerful. This chip is used to make Star Fox [or Star Wing as it was released in the UK], in the same year as the one millionth copy of MArio is sold. Also develment bagins on something called Project reality. In 1993 the Super Mario Bros. movie is released and so is Mortal Combat on the NES but without blood, wich means SEGA's gory version sell's far more. Then Nintendo announce that Project Reality will use Cartridges not CD's and in the USA it is renamed the Ultra 64. In 1994 Rareware release Donky Kong Country on the Super NES with outstanding rendered graphics which still look pretty flash today. In 1994 the last NES game, Wario's woods, is released. In 1995 the Virtual Boy becomes Nintendos biggest failure with complaints that the games are terrible and it gives you headaches!!! Development is finally finished for Project Reality with games such as Super Mario 64, Lylat Wars and Mario Kart 64 under the new name, Nintendo 64!!! in 1996 both the N64 and the new Game Boy pocket are released in Japanand well over 500,000 N64 are sold on the first day!!!Wich is aproximatly six every second!!! Then on October the first, the N64 is released in the States and sees sales for it in the first week surpase what the Playstation did in the first 13!!! And if that wasn't enough Super Mario 64 is hailed as the best game ever. Next year the N64 is released in the UK on march the first. In the same year Pocket Monsters is released in Japan and goes on to sell at least double what FFXII did. Also in a tragic car accident, geniuse Gumpei Yokoi is killed at the tender age of 57. The highly anticipated Game Boy Color is finally released all over the world and Poke craze hits the States and Zelda, Ocarnia of Time, is released in the UK and is praised as Miyamoto's finest game ever and Pokemon is released in the UK on the first of October and it quickly becomes one of Nintendos greatest hits. In 2000, at the Space World show in August Nintendo unveils both the Game Boy Advance and the GameCube showing it hasnt lost its gaming magic and are giving launch dates for 2001 in both the USA and Japan and 2002 in Europe.
I hope you find this interesting.
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I'll report u as well for... ummm... being evil!!!

lol, i'm reporting ya! lol

u know crap doesn't count as a swear word. (or if it does i'm screwed!)

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Ev][L~Dark wrote:
> you guys are saying all the mistakes about it, what happened about ::clapping
> your hands and saying "well done"::


clap*clap*clap*

well done (he he he you got sumthing wrong, he he he)

just kidding!

you guys are saying all the mistakes about it, what happened about ::clapping your hands and saying "well done"::

hey I did say I was nitpicking...

Damn you!!!!

Oh I'm probably nitpicking but anyway...

Shigeru Miyamoto wasn't hired as a games designer... He was hired originally as an artist.

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