We are going to review the most striking ones, I am sure that you did not know most of them. Some are even hard to believe.
Nintendo trivia
1. Its beginnings were very diverse. It was created on September 23, 1889, with the aim of dedicating itself to the sale of cardsto later in 1960 expand to the taxi industry and in turn as a rice factory. They were not sectors that reported much benefit, so in 1972 he started for the first time in the world of video games. And while it’s nearly 135 years old, it’s only been on it for about 50.
2. The creator of the game boy, that mythical portable console that any millennial has had, was not designed and manufactured by a group of company experts, but rather its inventor was Gunpei Yokoi, a company maintenance staff who was later promoted. And although he was an engineer, no one bet on him at first.
3. donkey kong it is the first game ever where the character can jump. Forerunner of the famous Super Mario Bros.
4. The NES It has been the console that has been on the market the longest. Curious since today this company is dedicated to laptops, with its Nintendo Switch, however, it has been the longest in our history.
5. Did you know what the company’s best-selling game is? Any Mario right? Well no, oddly enough, it is not, since that title and medal correspond to the WiiSports. Possibly for being sold in a pack with the Wii console itself in almost all of them, but be that as it may, I beat the plumber with a mustache.
In addition, the difference is quite a lot, while Mario Bros “only” sold 48.2 million copies, the Wii Sport rises to almost double, 82.9 million.
6. Fusajiro Yamauchi was the founder of the company, but his great-grandson Hiroshi Yamauchi The 22-year-old was the one who changed the course of it, leaving everything they had aside, although before focusing on video games he also tried not only the rice factory or taxi factory, but in 1949 he tried it with a hotel in the one where you could rent the rooms by the hour to bring prostitutes there.
7. In 1986, a function was seen for the first time in a game that would seem impossible to live without today. It was the button “Keep”which until then had not existed in any title, and it was in one of Nintendo, The Legend of Zelda where it could be tested.
These are some of the curiosities of a company that was not very clear about what it was going to dedicate itself to and that has given us several of the greatest successes and technological innovations in history. Surely there are many curiosities that we still do not know and that are behind all this.
