The history of nintendo
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It's time to Smash!
Super Mario
100
Nintendo as a company was started in 1889 to make which product.
What is Playing Cards?
100
This game, originally for the Wii U, found a new life when it was ported to the Nintendo Switch early on in it's life cycle and it's stayed as the best selling switch game ever since.
What is Mario Kart 8 (or MK8 Deluxe)
100
Though it's not a problem unique to Nintendo they are the most rampant about it, choosing to do this against various fan-made projects
What is DMCA takedowns/issuing legal threats
100
This infamous Super Smash Bros. Melee technique is a result of a glitch and lets players slide around on the ground without actually moving.
What is a Wavedash/Wavedashing?
100
While the original land opened in 2021 this theme park rendition of the mushroom kingdom has locations in Japan, Hollywood, and another location set to open in Florida in 2025.
What is Super Nintendo World?
200
Jumping around the timeline a bit; Nintendo was supposed to partner with which company to produce their first disk based system, but instead went with Philips to create the ill fated Nintendo CD-I games.
Who is Sony?
200
This Nintendo Switch game broke the internet back in March of 2020 because of it's ingame Easter equivalent, called Bunny Day, and it's seemingly endless supply of eggs.
What is Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
200
The original Mario Party game for the Nintendo 64 came with a few minigames where the players have to rotate the joystick as fast as they can. Some players found the best way to succeed was to rotate the stick using the palm of their hands, resulting in cuts, blisters, and friction burns. To mitigate the problem Nintendo sent these out to people who asked for them
What are gloves?
200
The tagline for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was "Everyone is here!" bringing back all of the previous fighters as well as adding newcomers, making the total number of playable characters (including DLC) this number.
What is 86? (89 if you separate Pyra and Mythra as well as the Pokemon trainer's individual Pokemon)
200
Nintendo officially put themselves on the map with the release of the original Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, creating the iconic characters of Mario and Donkey Kong; However it wasn't always going to be that way as the game was originally aiming to be a licensed game of this popular comic series.
What is Popeye?
300
Eventually Nintendo entered the toy market in 1966, finding success with this product. It's referenced in many of Nintendo's games including Animal Crossing New Leaf and Splatoon 3.
What is the Ultrahand?
300
Breath of the Wild is a groundbreaking title in The Legend of Zelda franchise with its vast open world filled with countless things to discover; to get to that point when they were first developing the game the director over-layed a map of this real Japanese city on top of Hyrule to get a sense of scale.
What is Kyoto?
300
This hashtag campaign started after Nintendo sent a cease and desist letter to The Big House for trying to host an online tournament using illegal services, and ultimately lead to the cancellation of the finals for the 2020 Splatoon 2 North American Open tournament.
What is #FreeMelee?
300
This Super Smash Bros. Brawl newcomer was widely controversial during the games life and was the center of numerous debates over whether or not they should be banned from tournaments due to their fast speed, multiple jumps, and janky special moves.
Who is Meta Knight?
300
In the game Super Mario Land 2 you traverse across various wacky worlds including space, a giant wind up toy, and one that takes place inside the body of a giant version of this real life animal.
What is a turtle?
400
In 1959 Nintendo partnered with which popular US company to create playing cards with their famous characters on them.
Who is Disney?
400
This cult classic Super Nintendo game where you play as a bounty hunter is widely believed to have originated the term 'any%' in speedrunning.
What is Super Metroid?
400
To promote this remake for the 3DS a man who was hired to portray an iconic Nintendo character sued them for hostile work conditions that led to him overheating and allegedly causing an aortic dissection.
What is Donkey Kong Country Returns/DKCR 3D?
400
As a promotional stunt leading up to the release of the original Smash bros game Nintendo hosted this event, broadcasted live over the internet and it featured costumed characters of Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, and Pikachu
What is Super Smash Brother's LIVE/Slamfest 99'?
400
Despite most westerners thinking the live action Super Mario Bros. movie is the first depiction of our favorite plumbers on the big screen, there was a 61 minute animated film released in 1986 exclusively released in Japan named this.
What is The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach?
500
Though it seems like Duck Hunt couldn't exist without the advent of the Famicom and home consoles it's actually a spiritual successor to this game released in 1971 that used defunct bowling alleys as a venue to project the game screen.
What is Laser Clay Shooting?
500
One of the more prominent characters in Super Mario 64 is a rabbit named MIPS who you chase around the castle in order to nab a power star. His name is actually an acronym for this, a chip found in the N64 itself that helped create the camera system in the game.
What is Microprocessor (without) Interlocked Pipelined Stages?
500
To promote the release of this Nintendo Wii game and to show of the connectivity between it and the previous DS title, Nintendo sent out press copies of the games with a save file already started on the DS one; though it seems the employee who started that file had a controversial sense of humor as one of the customizable catchphrases had been changed to a racial slur.
What is Animal Crossing: City Folk and Animal Crossing: Wild World
500
At the time of writing, this many spirits are in Super Smash bros Ultimate
What is 1528?
500
Revealed the official Super Mario "Quiz Cards" Mario and Luigi are revealed to be members of this real world activist group that was founded in Canada in 1971.
What is GreenPeace
