Nintendo isn't exactly synonymous with playing cards or the "Light Telephone", but that's only a sampling of what the company dabbled in before video games (1889-1975). Other ventures included: a taxi company, instant rice, love hotels, miscellaneous electronics, and even a TV network.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
I remember reading about what Nintendo did before video games on Wikipedia. And I also looked up the history of Sony too.
i knew they did most of that stuff. But i didn't know they did love hotels. interesting.
Never before have I heard the terms "instant rice" and "playing cards" used to describe the legacy of a single company. Not that this was news to me (well, I didn't know about the rice)....
I remember hearing about the love hotels on G4TV's "Icons" episode about Nintendo.
Nintendo has a lot of love