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The AV Famicom is released in 1993 almost at the same time in Japan and the USA. It is technically almost identical with the original Famicom or the NES, but …
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The AV Famicom is released in 1993 almost at the same time in Japan and the USA. It is technically almost identical with the original Famicom or the NES, but …
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Following Atari's success Breakout (1976), the Color TV Game Block Kuzushi is the fourth and last Color TV game. In this kind of skill game, blocks are smashed …
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Open pageBetween 1977 and 1980, Nintendo released four different versions of the so-called "Color TV Game(s)", a successful first-generation console with built-in …
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The Famicom Disk System is a floppy disk drive for the Famicom. It provides more storage, which was also possible on cartridges in 1986 but expensive. Disks …
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To appeal to computer users, Nintendo developed the Family Basic Keyboard with Hudson Soft and Sharp Corporation. The keyboard and supplied software cartridge …
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After the big video game crash Nintendo is looking with the Famicom for ever new possibilities of marketing video games. To avoid associations with the old …
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Open pageFor over 500 years, a card game called Hanafuda has been played in Japan. It is also popular in Korean space and Hawaii. Nintendo was founded in 1889 to …
Open pageThe Love Tester is one of the few products Nintendo sold outside Japan in the 1970s. By measuring the conductivity of the skin, potential couples can "check" …
Open pageThe Nintendo 3DS is the successor to the Nintendo DS and was launched in spring 2011. The 3DS is the first game console that can display autostereoscopic 3D …
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The Nintendo 64 appears late in the 5th generation, one and a half years after PlayStation, but is the first console with a 64-bit processor. It is developed …
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The disk drive expansion for the Nintendo 64, represented in the collection by a Starter Kit with its original packaging. It illustrates a distinct expansion path for the console.
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The Nintendo DS is a game console with two displays (a useful mnemonic is DS = Dual Screen, although it officially stands for "Developers' System") which …
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When Nintendo decides to release Famicom in the USA, the video game market there is no longer existing. The experience of the video game crash has also led …
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The Expansion Pak is a memory extension for the Nintendo 64 console that Nintendo launched in November 1998. It doubles the memory of the game console from 4 …
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The FamicomBox is an extension of the Famicom, which brought Nintendo for example for hotels and similar facilities on the market. The FamicomBox offers 10 …
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In parallel to the video game crash in the West, Nintendo introduces Famicom in Japan, an abbreviation for Family Computer. In fact, the console is supposed to …
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The Nintendo Four Player Adapter allows you to connect four Game Boy. Each Game Boy is connected to the hub with a cable. Since there were not many buyers for …
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Nintendo produced the Game & Watch series for more than 10 years, which is considered to be the predecessor of the freely programmable Game Boy. The games …
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The Nintendo Game Boy launched the successful Game Boy range in 1989. Today it is also called Game Boy Classic (model DMG-01) to distinguish it from later …
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In 2001, Nintendo launched the Game Boy Advance (GBA), a successor to Game Boy Color. The hardware is fully backward compatible with an extra CPU, but offers a …
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Open pageNintendo’s Game Boy Advance Game Link Cable (AGB-005) connects up to four Game Boy Advance consoles for multiplayer games. This includes the Game Boy Advance …
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The Game Boy Advance SP is the "SP" = special version of the Nintendo Game Boy Advance with similar hardware, but about half of the size and modified display …
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The Nintendo Game Boy Color (GBC) joined the Game Boy handheld range in 1998. It was Nintendo’s first console with a colour screen. Players had waited almost …
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The Game Boy Light adds a backlight to the Game Boy Pocket. In addition, the housing has become a bit larger. From the color design there is the light in …
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Open pageWith the DMG-04 link cable, two Game Boys can be connected, and so play together. Games that allow multi-game operation with the link cable carry a logo that …
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The Game Boy Micro of the Japanese company Nintendo is essentially a Game Boy Advance in a 10 × 5 × 1.8 cm small case. The case is made of thin metal instead …
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After Nintendo launched the Game Boy in 1989, the Game Boy Pocket (GBP) was the first update of the successful Handheld console and Game Boy series in 1996. It …
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The Game Boy from Japanese company Nintendo is by far the world’s most successful handheld console. Interchangeable cartridges allow it to play a wide range of …
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After Nintendo remained the last manufacturer to use cartridges with the N64, it adopted DVDs for the GameCube. Unlike the XBox and PS2, however, the GameCube …
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Nintendo's GameCube (2001-2007) is the sixth generation of game consoles competing with Sega Dreamcast, Sony PS2 and Microsoft Xbox. They point to the 21st …
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Nintendo's GameCube console has no permanent memory to store saved games. But there is a slot for memory cards that are available from Nintendo and other …
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The Pokémon mini is Nintendo's smallest console with interchangeable cartridges. In the collection it is represented with the game Pokémon Puzzle Collection.
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The Super Famicom Box is a video game system developed by Nintendo, which contained a pay-to-play mechanism. The box was operated exclusively in Japan in the …
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The Super Game Boy 2, like its predecessor, the Super Game Boy, brings Nintendo Game Boy games to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom in …
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The Super Game Boy allows you to play games for the Nintendo Game Boy with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom in Japan). Nintendo launches …
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In the early 90s, Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi became interested in a method developed by American company Reflection Technology for producing stereoscopic …
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The special feature of the Wii is its unique controller: the Wii Remote (or Wiimote) is a kind of remote control that allows you to map the three-dimensional …
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The Wii U of Nintendo is the successor to the highly successful Wii console. Like its predecessor, those rely on a special type of controller: the Wii U …
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Open pageThe People House series consists of six variants of a doll's house, three of which deal with Disney themes ("Alice in Wonderland", "Cinderella", and "Bambi" …
Open pageThe Roll N' Rocker, developed by LJN Toys, is an accessory for the NES. Under the disc is a kind of ball, so the player has to balance in different directions …
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In 1987 Nintendo released the Famicom 3D System, which allows games to be given spatial depth through stereoscopic effects by means of an LCD shutter goggles …
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