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What does Nintendo plan on getting you addicted to?
A Nintendo-themed amusement park
What is Nintendo?
A Japanese video game company
What sealed Nintendo game copy sold for $1.56 Million?
Super Mario 64
Who won the court case in 1989?
After getting an injunction preventing Galoob from selling the Game Genie in the U.S., Nintendo enjoyed a year free of the Game Genie on shelves
Which Nintendo Product has died in demand?
Konami Code Creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto has died in demand
What did Nintendo turn down?
Tom Hanks
Who identified a console as being the product of the Sony and Nintendo collaboration?
It was Terry’s son, Dan, who identified a console as being the product of the Sony and Nintendo collaboration
What did Nintendo win for their original control panel?
An Emmy
What did Nintendo argue when they were at court to take Game Genie?
Nintendo argued that in altering games, Codemasters was creating derivative works and infringing on its copyrights. Worse, they were making things too easy for players
What does Nintendo's Redmond headquarters have?
Nintendo's Redmond headquarters have Mario bathroom signs
What was the original Nintendo call center like?
A crisis hotline
What deal fell apart due to money issues?
One of the greatest near-misses in video game history was the proposed collaboration between Nintendo and Sony on a state-of-the-art console in the late 1980s that was dubbed the Nintendo PlayStation
What did the Nintendo Power magazine have to ban?
Steve Wozniak
Knowing Nintendo or Galoob would likely dispatch lawyers, Galoob or Nintendo chose to act first of the situation, who was striking first?
Galoob
What did Nintendo once want you to do?
Gamble
What did Nintendo Purposely do to Mario?
They made Mario low-tech
What extremely rare Nintendo product is about to be auctioned off for big money
The extremely rare Nintendo PlayStation Prototype is about to be auctioned off for big money
True or False?
Nintendo made the Power Glove
False
Originally titled the Power Pack, the Game Genie ($60) was released in the U.S. by toymaker Galoob in 1990, who sold Game Genie to Nintendo
It was Mattel, not Nintendo, that had burdened the world with the Power Glove the year prior, But Mattel had Nintendo’s blessing. Galoob did not.
What did Nintendo almost release?
A NES knitting mechine
What does Nintendo mean?
No one knows
Who created the Konami Code?
Hashimoto created the Konami Code
What did Nintendo once market?
Rice
In 1990, Nintendo’s executives were astonished to see that a third-party developer had cut right to the chase with an unapproved peripheral device that promised unlimited lives, endless ammunition, and other perks to players, what product was unapproved?
The Game Genie
What was R.O.B.
A Nintendo Trojan Horse