Meeting and Honoring Two Cornerstones from Nintendo’s Past Although our main objective in Kyoto was to attend the opening of the Nintendo ...

Gunpei Yokoi (横井軍平), Nintendo's legendary inventor and yearslong head of its R&D department, suffered a tragic death in a roadside a...

How does the Nintendo Ele-conga sound? That's a question I have been asked a number of times over the years. Multiple musicians also ex...

The 1967 Nintendo baseball pitching toy Ultra Machine came with a large instruction sheet. This sheet was a fraction smaller than the box, ...

Yesterday's post on my second ever Nintendo game ( Game & Watch Mario Bros. ) got me so excited about these great little handhelds,...

The other week I told you about my first, ever Nintendo game I owned . Now, a single item obviously can't be called a collection. But tw...

In 1969, the American space program Apollo reached its climax, when mankind set foot on the moon for the first time. The whole world went sp...

In a previous post on this blog, Nintendo's remote controlled racing car Lefty RX was introduced. These toy cars have the surprising fe...

While Nintendo's head of Research and Development Gunpei Yokoi was busy overseeing the roll-out of the Game & Watch silver and gol...

In 1980 Nintendo released a toy that would become a hit in their Japanese home market as well as abroad. Some of Nintendo's toys and ear...

In the second half of the 60s, Nintendo became successful through a number of initiative toys like the Ultra Hand and Ultra Machine . Howev...