Nintendo's Early & Obscure Consoles

[Gorf]

Hey...where did you guys get that photo of me? 

[TL]

[align=center:3977p7jh]Another classic Japanese advert for the Color TV Game

Nintendo Color TV Game 6 & 15 [1978] - Rare Early Nintendo Game Systems - Nintendo Color TV Game[/align:3977p7jh]

[TrekMD]

No clue of what was being said but that variation on Pong looks interesting.

[davyk]

In the 70s (probably earlier too) Nintendo made some incredibly cool stuff (some of it licensed from people like MB - but lots of things were their own developments). Duck Hunt for example is a video game version of a mechanical gun game they made that projected ducks onto your wall to shoot at
http://blog.beforemario.com/2012/09/nintendo-kousenjuu-duck-hunt-1976.html

....video games are only the latest thing for them - a company that started in the 1890s. The death of Gunpei Yokoi (Gameboy, Metroid - but inventor of many mechanical games back in the day) was a huge loss to the industry.
http://blog.beforemario.com/p/list-of-toys-and-games.html


There are plenty of links on youtube showing some of their early stuff. Here's just one:

Nintendo Museum Feature: Part One - The Toy Era

[TrekMD]

Pretty cool stuff.  I never knew that Duck Hunt was a mechanical game before Nintendo created the video game version. 

[Gorf]

Ah but yes...how the mighty have fallen!

[davyk]

eh?