Nintendo
[related: Nintendo Entertainment System, NES, Love Tester, ColorTV-Game, Richon]
Japanese technology company originally founded in 1889 by the entrepreneur Fusajiro Yamauchi for the production and dissemination of Hanafuda (flower cards), despite the banning of such card sets by the Japanese government in 1816 due to their prevalence in black market and underground gambling rings. In 1959 Nintendo entered into an agreement with Walt Disney to incorporate its trademarked characters into limited edition card sets, an initiative that proved overly reliant on the highly volatile children's market, leading to huge losses [1] and a subsequent turn to machine-based technological development and production resulting in the production of Japan's first electronic toy in the early 1970's. With over a million units sold upon its release, the Nintendo Beam Gun, an photo-realistic optoelectric pistol. Additional success followed with the release of the Ultra Hand, the Ultra Machine, and, mostly notably, the Love Tester [2]. In 1978, Nintendo released the Othello-influenced Color TV-Game, its first video game. The staggering success of the Color TV-Game and the subsequent rapid development of microprocessing technology led to the heralded release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985. Building on the success of Donkey Kong (the first video game to including jumping), Nintendo built an extensive gaming empire, successfully overwhelming competitive companies such as Sega, ColecoVision, and Atari, while boosting both licensed game developers like Konami, Capcom, and Tecmo and third party electronic suppliers like Ricoh [3]. Analysts and metaphysicists have pointed to the use of newly created and expertly crafted music on original NES titles under the direction of composer Koji Kondo as significantly increasing the "palpability" of the video gaming world from that point forward via the incorporation of emotion and poignance into standard gameplay. The "palpability factor" has been identified as a core component of the development of effective simulacra and integral to the functionality of virtual portal devices (VPD).
- ↑ These losses were partially offset by the production of off-label, separately disseminated "adult" card sets focusing largely on geisha-fetishization and "Lolicon" [citation needed].
- ↑ A device that measured the love between two individuals via spherical meta sensors utilizing rudimentary electronic circuitry (in fact, the first use of actual circuitry in any Nintendo product). When operated properly, the Love Tester displays a "love score" [scaled 1-100]. The exact nature of the machine's functionality was kept secret from the public, leading to accusations of occultism and to reports of a slight uptick in "empty nest" divorce throughout the country due to the tendency for older participates to generate lower "love scores".
- ↑ Nintendo's primary supplier of superconductors. Founded on February 6, 1936 by the government of Japan to conduct technological research and development originally under the moniker Institute of Physical and Chemical Research. Ricoh Innovations, Ricoh's US subsidiary operates out of Silicon Valley and specializes in cloud computing. On July 19, 2016, the company admitted to stealing around 12 million Indian Rupee, resulting in mass resignation and subsequent litigation of its Indian branch.