#before mario

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Young Shigeru Miyamoto

Above: Shigeru Miyamoto pre-Nintendo holding a design concept for Ricoh's My Teacher.

Below: Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda at Nintendo posing with a prototype cabinet of their arcade game Sheriff.

Source: Weekly Toyo Keizai #5676 (Feb 3, 2001). Special thanks to Nintendo Memories.

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Erik Voskuil: Before Mario

Talán Magyarországon annyira ismert a Before Mario könyv. Érdemes egy pillantást vetni rá legalább egy kritika erejéig, hiszen kiváló könyvről van szó.

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Nintendo 1976 Duck Hunt Kosenju Projector Game! Unboxing, Gameplay, Review | Retro Game Living Room

Nintendo 1976 Duck Hunt Kosenju Projector Game! Unboxing, Gameplay, Review | Retro Game Living Room

This is well before NES was released. Duck Hunt was a part of a Nintendo toy series called Nintendo Kôsenjû, where they released toys that shot at targets.

In this video, you'll see an unboxing of the system, gameplay, and a review.

For more info, check out this article on the fantastic Before Mario blog:

Special thanks and shout out to Mark from Classic Game Room who taught me how to do that…

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Before Mario Book Review Before Mario is about the toys and electronics Nintendo created before the launch of the Famicom in 1983, hence the title.

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Erik Voskuil with a 2012 post on his cool blog Before Mario, where he catalogs tchotchkes Nintendo made before the NES:

The Famicom/NES Duck Hunt isn't the first one, however. Eight years before, Nintendo already introduced a duck hunt simulation under the same name.

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Duck Hunt was one of the last electro-mechanical toys created by Nintendo, together with Custom Gunman and Custom Lion released in the same year.

This game's design is the culmination of over ten years of increasingly sophisticated engineering by Gunpei Yokoi's research and development team, and one of the most impressive electro-mechanical toys I have seen.

Never knew Duck Hunt had a mechanical predecessor. The tech of it is pretty neat.

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Nintendo’s Life Before Mario – Before Mario Book Review by Gaming Historian Gaming Historian discusses the book Before Mario, which highlights the many products Nintendo made before becoming a video game developer. You can purchase the book here and visit the Before Mario blog here.

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This blog showcases and celebrates the retro toys and vintage games Nintendo created in the period from the mid 60s to the early 80s, starting with the first board games up to the launch of the Family Computer in 1983.

The description says it all.  It is very interesting history, and the author of the blog has recently released a cool book of the same name.

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This blog showcases and celebrates the retro toys and vintage games Nintendo created in the period from the mid 60s to the early 80s, starting with the first board games up to the launch of the Family Computer in 1983.