Miyamoto: “What does Nintendo mean to YOU?”

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Via Yahoo Questions, Miyamoto asks “What does Nintendo mean to you?”, so far there are 4,440 answers and a lot of them are great.  So what does Nintendo mean to you?

For me, Nintendo has been in my life since the age of 4.  I remember my next door neighbor, Trent Bailey, had gotten a Nintendo Entertainment Console in the fall of 1985.  We would spend countless hours in his basement playing Gyromite and Sleepy Time, I would also be the one who controlled the Red and Blue pipes, because I was the younger one.  R.O.B. the robot sat near even though all we really did was spin disks in his hands….

I spent every spare moment playing those early NES games, Hogan’s Alley, Ice Climber, Donkey Kong, Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros, Mighty Bomb Jack, Solomons Key, Athena, and TONS more.  I remember my friend got super pissed when I looked in the “Shhh, secrets” section of the Super Mario Bros. instruction booklet.  We’d have tournments and all nighters based around Nintendo.

I remember in the late 80′s my parents re-did our attic into a bedroom for me because we had a new addition to the family, my little bro.  The attic was so cool, it had corners and slanted walls, and two cubby holes, that I turned into the “Nintendo Club”, tiny nooks where I ripped apart a dozen of the first series of Nintendo Power and plastered the walls with them.  I had Mario sweat pants, shirts, posters, it was an 80′s kid come true.

From Bubble Bobble to Techmo Bowl, to Track and Field, Nintendo was everywhere in my life.  I got a gameboy in ’89 and spent countless hours with Tetris, TMNT, Spiderman, Super Mario World, it was amazing.  I remember hooking up with another gameboy and doing two player in elementary school, it was the most amazing thing ever.

Then in ’91 I got a SNES for Xmas after begging for months, and it just continued.  I’ve never bought another console beside a Nintendo console, Nintendo is as much as my life as anything else, it’s always been there and it’s comfortable to go to.  It’s great to hear sounds (for instance in Zelda) that I’ve been hearing for the past 20 years.

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  • Lewis

    wow, u should apply for a job with nintendo, i’ve been a fan since i was 2, now i’m 23, the zelda comment was right on point. nintendo invented the remix [or remake]

  • Lewis

    wow, u should apply for a job with nintendo, i’ve been a fan since i was 2, now i’m 23, the zelda comment was right on point. nintendo invented the remix [or remake]

  • Steve

    Dude, I resonate with you, as my life has been pretty similar…owning and playing every Nintendo System (except the Virtual Boy and GameBoy Color) a lot! However, I did notice a typo. Sorry, I’m weird like that. Super Mario Land was the game for GameBoy, and Super Mario World didn’t come until the SNES.

  • Steve

    Dude, I resonate with you, as my life has been pretty similar…owning and playing every Nintendo System (except the Virtual Boy and GameBoy Color) a lot! However, I did notice a typo. Sorry, I’m weird like that. Super Mario Land was the game for GameBoy, and Super Mario World didn’t come until the SNES.

  • http://abxy.org/u/noodle93 Noodle_93

    To me, Nintendo means “A blast from here to the future”.

    Me personally, have not been a gamer for that long. I started playing my sisters Gameboy Color when I was 5, and have consecutively bought GBASP, then DS. But my first console was the Sega Megadrive (Which was when I was like three) and then Xbox. Ah, that huge black hunk of junk that now vacates in the cupboard of my living room, What did you offer me? Uh.. Halo… Halo 2? Um… *Struggles for ideas* But then, out of the glorious white clouds rolls out the Wii, the best thing man has ever used to simulate Sports. Note: I love my wii. Back on-topic: Now an avid Nintendo Fan, I hope to see the best from Nintendo.

    Noodle.

  • http://abxy.org/u/noodle93 Noodle_93

    To me, Nintendo means “A blast from here to the future”.

    Me personally, have not been a gamer for that long. I started playing my sisters Gameboy Color when I was 5, and have consecutively bought GBASP, then DS. But my first console was the Sega Megadrive (Which was when I was like three) and then Xbox. Ah, that huge black hunk of junk that now vacates in the cupboard of my living room, What did you offer me? Uh.. Halo… Halo 2? Um… *Struggles for ideas* But then, out of the glorious white clouds rolls out the Wii, the best thing man has ever used to simulate Sports. Note: I love my wii. Back on-topic: Now an avid Nintendo Fan, I hope to see the best from Nintendo.

    Noodle.

  • shanoboy

    @steve where you said Super Mario World didn’t come until the SNES:
    Actaully, I think there was a Super Mario World on the NES. I’ve played the rom before and it was pretty much the same as the SNES version just really stripped down. It might have been a homebrew hack though, I’m not totally positive. It was included on the Big Ass Emulator disc for xbox too and that was supposed to have only real games from what I understand. Someone should look that up. Maybe I will!

  • shanoboy

    @steve where you said Super Mario World didn’t come until the SNES:
    Actaully, I think there was a Super Mario World on the NES. I’ve played the rom before and it was pretty much the same as the SNES version just really stripped down. It might have been a homebrew hack though, I’m not totally positive. It was included on the Big Ass Emulator disc for xbox too and that was supposed to have only real games from what I understand. Someone should look that up. Maybe I will!

  • shanoboy

    @steve where you said Super Mario World didn’t come until the SNES:
    Actaully, I think there was a Super Mario World on the NES. I’ve played the rom before and it was pretty much the same as the SNES version just really stripped down. It might have been a homebrew hack though, I’m not totally positive. It was included on the Big Ass Emulator disc for xbox too and that was supposed to have only real games from what I understand. Someone should look that up. Maybe I will!

  • shanoboy

    @steve again: looks like the NES version of Super Mario World is indeed a hacked version. Here’s a vid of some of it on youtube for anyone interested in seeing it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M73ReyCWsnI

  • shanoboy

    @steve again: looks like the NES version of Super Mario World is indeed a hacked version. Here’s a vid of some of it on youtube for anyone interested in seeing it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M73ReyCWsnI

  • Will

    I actually was thinking about it right now and I haven’t bought any other brand for myself but Nintendo. I’m a total fanboy. Consoles are expensive, I guess you’ve gotta go with a brand you can trust and cares about the industry.

  • Will

    I actually was thinking about it right now and I haven’t bought any other brand for myself but Nintendo. I’m a total fanboy. Consoles are expensive, I guess you’ve gotta go with a brand you can trust and cares about the industry.