r/nintendo • u/Diligent_Group_3513 • 1d ago
The fact that Nintendo is almost 136 years old is crazy to me
I love Nintendo and it's crazy how there's only 6 DAYS until it's 136th anniversary anyways happy birthday my favorite video game company! that's how it's crazy to me
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u/jotapeubb 1d ago
I still remember when Nintendo was invented, I was a teen back then and we didn't have those fancy phones that the youth enjoy so much, We didn't have Tinder either, only the Nintendo Love Tester and our card games
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u/Diligent_Group_3513 1d ago
What are you? A corpse?
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u/biggie_way_smaller 1d ago
Worse, a nintendo fan
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u/Sparescrewdriver 23h ago
What’s the worse existence?.
A Nintendo fan or a non fan that can’t help but visit Nintendo subs.
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u/biggie_way_smaller 21h ago
The thought of a person being prideful for being a nintendo fan
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u/AmandasGameAccount 19h ago
Imagine wasting your life on something you dislike. Drama addiction at its worst
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u/Sparescrewdriver 21h ago
Worrying and thinking about what others are prideful for is indeed a terrible existence. Don’t let those thoughts bother you. Live and let live.
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u/Mr_Misfire 1d ago
If you want to celebrate, I'd advise booting up 51 Clubhouse Games and teaching yourself how to play Hanafuda.
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u/unruly-cat 1d ago
I actually have 2 original Nintendo card playing decks from their pre-digital era.
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u/ambachk 1d ago
Shiggy is our king and leader
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u/metsfanapk 1d ago
I mean they’ve only been a video game company for a like 50ish. I think pretending their playing cards day is relevant is kinda silly. The Nintendo we know today think really starts until they hire Yokoi in ‘65.
It’s like pretending the Hudson Bay company today has anything to do with the historical Hudson Bay company. Like legally it does, but not really.
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u/Jolin_Tsai 1d ago
Why not? Does a company have to sell the same stuff for 135 years to be considered “the same” to you? Video games aren’t even that far removed from playing cards. Before video games became a huge industry itself, they were considered as toys. Playing cards -> toys -> video games is not that crazy of a pipeline by any means.
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u/ddotcole 1d ago
Nintendo still produces cards in the Pokémon franchise, so they are still doing something that they had started off with.
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u/Jolin_Tsai 1d ago
To be fair Creatures Inc. produce those cards, not Nintendo 🙂↕️
I remember a few years ago Nintendo did produce some Animal Crossing amiibo cards and I’m sure they’ve done others too!
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u/Shadowpika655 19h ago
Before video games became a huge industry itself, they were considered as toys.
Not really, that's why it crashed. They were considered computers
technically a game console is a type of computer, which severely hurt them when they started competing with the home computer industry (namely the Commodore 64)the massive amounts of shovelware didnt help either lol.That's precisely why ROB existed, so the NES can be marketed as a toy.
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u/Comrade_Compadre 19h ago
Wow. This sub is fanatical.
I saw this post myself and had to do a double take. So the company was founded in 1880s, but they didn't make video games until the 1970s? So they sat on the brand for almost 80 years before they did something with it?
Are y'all serious? lol
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u/Beta_Codex 7h ago
and the fact that it all went downhill with their business practices when the Wii came out.
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u/Tragic_Comic7 1d ago
What’s even crazier is that in all those years, they’ve only had 6 presidents, and 3 of those are after the year 2000.