A Brief History of Nintendo



Nintendo's start with the story of the founding company of many other popular gaming systems like the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy and Nintendo DS and Wii.

-1889 The founding companies Fusajiro Yamauchi, who is the grandfather of the current president, began manufacturing playing cards called "Hanafuda" He created a small business in the Japanese city of Kyoto.

The game was a success abroad, as well as in his native Japan.

-1975 Nintendo and Misubishi Electric developed a kind of video game system and introduced the microprocessor in video game machines for the first time.

-1977 Nintendo started creating video game systems for the home user, with Mitsubishi.

-1978 Nintendo started selling coin-operated game machines, using their micro processors.
 
-1980 Nintendo came to America for the first time, they created the Nintendo of America Inc. branch

-1981 Was his defining year for Nintendo, they developed the coin of the video game "Donkey Kong" This video game has become the hottest sought, gaming, video in history.

-1985 Nintendo began selling the first computer home entertainment systems in the United States. The unit included the famous Super Mario Bros, Mario's most famous moustachioed plumber small the worlds.

-1987 Nintendo for this year was the first to achieve sales of over a million units in the video game manufacturers.

-1996 Nintendo released the Nintendo 64 was the first of its kind with a 64-bit processor. Later that year Nintendo shipped about 350,000 units in North America, the whole lot was sold in less than three days.

-1998 Color Nintendo game boy out and new games animator The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, Donkey Kong Country 3, Perfect Dark etc ..

-2001 The GameCube launched, which was the sixth generation of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

-2006 On April 14, 2006 Nintendo released the seventh generation of the "NES" aptly called "Nintendo Revolution." Despite protests video game manufacturers and Nintendo Press has changed its name to "Wii" The first name received much ridicule from many voters, saying the name seemed to convey a sense of childishness. Nintendo answered and said, "Revolution as a name is not ideal; .. "

As the release of "Wii" sold more units than its competitors (Xbox and PlayStation) combined. Nintendo plans to have sold over 50 million world "Wii" wide by 2009.

Target audience with your Nintendo "Wii" is much broader than previous gaming machines. They are not intended to fight with Sony for the PlayStation 3, but to increase the number of people playing games. A zoom range. They hired the giant advertising Academy Award as Stephen Gaghan. Pensioners as old as 103 have been reported by playing with the Wii console, a magazine in the UK said the Queen Elizabeth 2 was playing the Wii.

As the ad slogan says: "Wii would like to play"

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