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Nintendo
Nintendo is a Japanese video game company that was founded in 1889 as a hand-made hanafuda playing card company. In the 1960s Nintendo ventured into toys and other products before releasing a few Pong clones in the late 1970s, seeing success in the arcades in the early 1980s and expanding into home console and later handheld video games in the 1980s. It is, to my mind, this history with toys and games that has kept Nintendo making quality software for many decades at this point and it is a large part of why Nintendo games seem so fondly remembered over all others - at their heart, they are good toys and games beyond their video aspects
Nintendo Home Consoles
Some of the different Nintendo consoles in my collection include...
| Year | Name | Description | Photo |
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| 1983 | Famicom | Nintendo's first home console with interchangeable game cartridges |
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| 1986 | Famicom Disk System | Floppy disk drive accessory for the Famicom |
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| 1990 | Super Famicom | Nintendo's 16-bit followup to the Famicom |
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Nintendo Handhelds & Portables
One segment of the gaming market that Nintendo has always had a particular knack for is the handheld and portable gaming market, probably because these systems lend themselves well to cute (screen-space-saving) graphics, pick-up-and-play style games, and more toy-like and "fun" games, which Nintendo likes to experiment with
| Year | Name | Description | Photo |
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| 1989 | Game Boy | The first Game Boy with green and grey screen, later sold in several colors |
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| 1996 | Game Boy Pocket | Smaller actually-pocket-size Game Boy with slightly larger (and actually black-and-white instead of green) screen |
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| late 1998 | Game Boy Color | The first Game Boy with significantly different specifications, plays in color and at double the max clock speed of the original |
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Nintendo games
Links to pages containing either some basic information about some of the random games I find interesting or more in-depth pages covering particular games or genres
| Name | Description | Photo |
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| Famicom games | Random games for the Nintendo Famicom |
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| Game Boy games | Games for the region-free Nintendo Game Boy | |
| Super Famicom games | Random games for the Nintendo Super Famicom |
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