Did you know that Nintendo owns a very popular team in Major League Baseball? It also also considered as the world's largest video game company by revenue located in Kyoto, Japan. Its current CEO is Satoru Iwata. Nintendo was founded as a card company in late 1889, originally named Nintendo Koppai. Some of the Nintendo's main products are the home consoles which includes the following, thus, Nintendo Entertainment System (1985), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991), Nintendo 64 (1996), GameCube (2001), Wii (2006), Wii U (2012). Some of Nintendo's major international divisions are the Nintendo Co., Ltd. (NCL) - Japan, Nintendo of America (NOA) - North America, Nintendo of Europe (NOE) - Europe, Nintendo Australia (NAL) - Australia, iQue -China. Now for this top ten article know more awesome facts about Nintendo on the 10 facts listed below.TOP : 10
Nintendo Fact : Nintendo were collaborating with Sony for a CD-ROM games console in 1989. Nintendo backed out, leading to the creation of the Playstation.
Source : www.techradar.com
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| PlayStation photo |
TOP : 9
Nintendo Fact : The company name is made of the kanji characters : nin, ten, & do. It means either "Leave luck to heaven," or "Word hard, but in the end it is in heaven's hands".
Source : www.newyorker.com
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| Nintendo - Super Mario |
TOP : 8
Nintendo Fact : Nintendo began in 1880, under Fusajiro Yamauchi. They sold playing cards called Hanafuda - the name translate as "flower cards" and they were used for gambling.
Source : www.newyorker.com
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| Haafuda playing cards |
TOP : 7
Nintendo Fact : Mario was originally called Mr. Video and subsequently Jumpman. Portrayed as a carpenter, he was eventually named Mario after Nintendo's irate landlord.
Source : www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk
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| Super Mario - Super Nintendo |
TOP : 6
Nintendo Fact : A survey in the early 90's showed that American children found Mario more recognizable than Mickey Mouse.
Source : www.cnn.com
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| Mickey Mouse of Disney |
TOP : 5
Nintendo Fact : A rare NES game, Stadium Events, has been valued at $41,300 with only 10 to 20 complete copies in existence. The box alone sells at $10,000.
Source : www.businessinsider.com
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| Nintendo Entertainment System games |
TOP : 4
Nintendo Fact : In the 1960's Nintendo opened a chain of "Love Hotels". These often windowless rooms were a discreet way for couples to enjoy each other's company.
Source : www.businessinsider.com
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| Nintendo Love Hotels |
TOP : 3
Nintendo Fact : The Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 wasn't sold in the West as it was considered too hard. An easier game, "Dream Factory: Heart Pounding Panic", was hurriedly re-skinned and sold as a Mario sequel.
Source : www.ign.com
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| Doki Doki Panic or Dream Factory: Heart Pounding Panic |
TOP : 2
Nintendo Fact : Nintendo owns the Seattle Mariners Baseball team. They were bought for $76 million in 1989.
Source : www.nytimes.com
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| Seattle Mariners Baseball team |
TOP : 1
Nintendo Fact : As of September 2012, 97.2 million Wii units have been sold. Stacked end to end they'd be 13,000 miles high - over 2,000 times higher than the Mt. Everest.
Source : www.nintendo.co.jp
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| Nintendo's black Wii unit |
Data Sources :
- www.en.wikipedia.org
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bWvXh-9cok
- www.telegraph.co.uk
- www.dispatches.cheatcc.com
- www.hanafudahawaii.com
- www.gamefaqs.com
- www.wallpressnice.wallwp.com
- www.consolegames.ro
- www.nowyouknowthis.com
- www.tvtropes.org
- www.commons.wikimedia.org
- www.technobuffalo.com
Please be noted that the top 10 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top ten lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.
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