what do a baseball team popeye the
sailor and a swingers hotel have in
common
well welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re taking a look back at our top 10
favorite pieces of trivia about Nintendo
number 10 100 years of gaming kicking
off our list is the oldest piece of
Nintendo trivia there is it’s a pretty
easy guess to say that Nintendo is the
oldest video game company but can you
guess how old try over a hundred years
Nintendo was actually founded in 1889
and although they tried their hand at a
large variety of businesses they
originally produced playing cards it’s
always been about games number nine we
like sports – speaking of Nintendo’s
vast portfolio you may be surprised to
learn that Nintendo is the primary owner
of the Seattle Mariners who play near
their headquarters in Washington who
says video games in sports don’t mix
number eight lurid details while
Nintendo has pretty much always been
known as a family-friendly company there
are a few interesting details about
their past first in the 1960s it is
rumored that Nintendo owned and operated
a love hotel in which customers could
pay to use rooms by the hour an equally
tantalizing fact is that there are
several pornographic games for the NES
that were released without Nintendo’s
permission all of which would fetch you
a nice chunk of coins on eBay number
seven blocked products as mentioned
before Nintendo has tried its hand at
several other business models and
products one such failed product was a
line of construction bricks called N&V
blocks that heavily resembled LEGO
pieces
apparently they resembled Lego a little
too much and a resulting threat of
lawsuit got the product shut down the
bricks do technically make an appearance
in Super Mario World 2 although most
people would probably describe them as
Lego number 6
inspirational design legendary Nintendo
designer Shigeru Miyamoto is never shy
about sharing his inspirations for his
games and characters for example donkey
kong mario and the princess were
designed as a reimagining of the love
triangle between popeye pluto and olive
oil The Legend of Zelda was
stylistically modeled after Ridley
Scott’s legend starring Tom Cruise and
it’s nonlinear adventure gameplay was
apparently inspired by the nature
Heights he took during his childhood
number 5 us suck at games Super Mario
Brothers 2 was deemed too difficult for
Western audiences in need of a proper
sequel for Western
gamer’s Nintendo reskin an obscure
Arabian themed platformer called Yomi
Kojo Doki Doki Panic and released that
as Super Mario Brothers to the flying
carpet makes sense now doesn’t it
western audiences only got a chance to
play the real super mario brothers – in
1993 with Super Mario all-stars number 4
weird name during its design phase the
Nintendo Wii was codenamed the
revolution however Nintendo wanted a
name that would translate seamlessly
into a large number of languages and as
such settled on the name we boy would
like to play the name was actually not
an acronym as many first theorized
instead the double eye represents both
the dual remotes the system uses as well
as two players standing side by side
reinforcing the communal aspect of the
system’s games number 3 weird parameters
when tasked with designing the week
engineers were given a number of unusual
guidelines to follow first they were
told to design their console to be
reliable rather than powerful and set
about creating a unit that would remain
cool and stable after 24 hours of
continuous use the second had to do with
size apparently during the design phase
Nintendo’s current CEO grabbed a handful
of three DVDs stack them together and
told the engineers make it about that
big so they did number 2 bovine design
not all of Miyamoto’s initial
inspirations transitioned into his game
seamlessly when he first sketched Bowser
he initially intended for him to be an
ox
when working from those sketches
character animator Yoshi kitabi thought
he was looking at a turtle and began to
design the character as such after some
confusion
they designed Bowser as a mash-up of the
two ideas and the most famous final boss
was born number 1 this system blows
anyone who ever had an original NES will
remember that the most common solution
for fixing a game that wasn’t working
was to blow on the cartridge the idea
was that doing this would remove dust
while there is nothing that suggests
that this is the case it is likely that
blowing breath into the cartridge
provided my newts amount of moisture to
the 72 pin connectors allowing for
better conduction between the cartridge
and the system so it worked but for all
the wrong reasons
what’s your favorite piece of trivia
about the gaming Goliath
for more cool trivia lists including our
Mario Brothers trivia be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
sailor and a swingers hotel have in
common
well welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re taking a look back at our top 10
favorite pieces of trivia about Nintendo
number 10 100 years of gaming kicking
off our list is the oldest piece of
Nintendo trivia there is it’s a pretty
easy guess to say that Nintendo is the
oldest video game company but can you
guess how old try over a hundred years
Nintendo was actually founded in 1889
and although they tried their hand at a
large variety of businesses they
originally produced playing cards it’s
always been about games number nine we
like sports – speaking of Nintendo’s
vast portfolio you may be surprised to
learn that Nintendo is the primary owner
of the Seattle Mariners who play near
their headquarters in Washington who
says video games in sports don’t mix
number eight lurid details while
Nintendo has pretty much always been
known as a family-friendly company there
are a few interesting details about
their past first in the 1960s it is
rumored that Nintendo owned and operated
a love hotel in which customers could
pay to use rooms by the hour an equally
tantalizing fact is that there are
several pornographic games for the NES
that were released without Nintendo’s
permission all of which would fetch you
a nice chunk of coins on eBay number
seven blocked products as mentioned
before Nintendo has tried its hand at
several other business models and
products one such failed product was a
line of construction bricks called N&V
blocks that heavily resembled LEGO
pieces
apparently they resembled Lego a little
too much and a resulting threat of
lawsuit got the product shut down the
bricks do technically make an appearance
in Super Mario World 2 although most
people would probably describe them as
Lego number 6
inspirational design legendary Nintendo
designer Shigeru Miyamoto is never shy
about sharing his inspirations for his
games and characters for example donkey
kong mario and the princess were
designed as a reimagining of the love
triangle between popeye pluto and olive
oil The Legend of Zelda was
stylistically modeled after Ridley
Scott’s legend starring Tom Cruise and
it’s nonlinear adventure gameplay was
apparently inspired by the nature
Heights he took during his childhood
number 5 us suck at games Super Mario
Brothers 2 was deemed too difficult for
Western audiences in need of a proper
sequel for Western
gamer’s Nintendo reskin an obscure
Arabian themed platformer called Yomi
Kojo Doki Doki Panic and released that
as Super Mario Brothers to the flying
carpet makes sense now doesn’t it
western audiences only got a chance to
play the real super mario brothers – in
1993 with Super Mario all-stars number 4
weird name during its design phase the
Nintendo Wii was codenamed the
revolution however Nintendo wanted a
name that would translate seamlessly
into a large number of languages and as
such settled on the name we boy would
like to play the name was actually not
an acronym as many first theorized
instead the double eye represents both
the dual remotes the system uses as well
as two players standing side by side
reinforcing the communal aspect of the
system’s games number 3 weird parameters
when tasked with designing the week
engineers were given a number of unusual
guidelines to follow first they were
told to design their console to be
reliable rather than powerful and set
about creating a unit that would remain
cool and stable after 24 hours of
continuous use the second had to do with
size apparently during the design phase
Nintendo’s current CEO grabbed a handful
of three DVDs stack them together and
told the engineers make it about that
big so they did number 2 bovine design
not all of Miyamoto’s initial
inspirations transitioned into his game
seamlessly when he first sketched Bowser
he initially intended for him to be an
ox
when working from those sketches
character animator Yoshi kitabi thought
he was looking at a turtle and began to
design the character as such after some
confusion
they designed Bowser as a mash-up of the
two ideas and the most famous final boss
was born number 1 this system blows
anyone who ever had an original NES will
remember that the most common solution
for fixing a game that wasn’t working
was to blow on the cartridge the idea
was that doing this would remove dust
while there is nothing that suggests
that this is the case it is likely that
blowing breath into the cartridge
provided my newts amount of moisture to
the 72 pin connectors allowing for
better conduction between the cartridge
and the system so it worked but for all
the wrong reasons
what’s your favorite piece of trivia
about the gaming Goliath
for more cool trivia lists including our
Mario Brothers trivia be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
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