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Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 7 Nintendo Advanced
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! To this point in Nintendo’s history, it could be said that the company had reached its lowest point in its long existence. Nintendo still managed to stay profitable with the Nintendo 64, but the company had begun to l...
Pokemon Go
Pokémon Go was announced as an Android and iOS game. Developed by Nintendo and Niantic, the game allows players to explore the real world to catch virtual Pokémon.
Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 6 Project Ruh Roh
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! To this point in its history, Nintendo has made almost no poor business decisions, almost to the point of clairvoyance. Aside from an early mishap by a young Hiroshi Yamauchi in the Laser Clay Shooting System, Nintendo has ...
Infendo Super Mario Maker contest!
Infendo and Mario have teamed up! Are you excited for Super Mario Maker? Would you like a chance to win the game for free? We thought so! It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3! 1. All you have to do is send out a tweet mentioning @infendo, and telling us what kind of Mario level you plan on making in Super Mario Maker. 2. Follow @infendo and @infendoeugene on Twitter. 3. RT the tweet from the...
Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 6 Super Nintendo
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! By the time Nintendo was ready to release there next console in 1990, you would be hard pressed to find a child in America that didn’t know the name Mario. When else can you remember a feature film released that was b...
Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 5 Game Boy
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! Outside of Japan, if you asked your average person if they knew who Nintendo was in 1979, chances are you would get a resounding no. Fast forward just a few short years to 1981 and the name Nintendo was on the collective co...
Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 4 Famicom
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! When last we left Nintendo, the company was just starting to crawl out from behind their toy-making shadow with their entrance into the arcade market. At this point, many key people at the company were beginning to emerge w...
Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 3 Arcade Madness
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! Make sure to check back in everyday for more content! So if you couldn’t believe that Nintendo started off making cards, it may have been even more surprising that they also made plastic toys. By the end of 1977, when...
Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 2 Electronic Beginnings
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! Make sure to check back in everyday for more content! When last we left Nintendo, hanafuda was on it’s way out as toy making was the new profit driver with successes such as The Ultra Hand and the Ultra Machine. Meanw...
Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 1 Origins
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! Make sure to check back in everyday for more content! By now it’s pretty common knowledge that long before Nintendo was in the video game making business, the company got its start producing handmade hanafuda cards i...
Infendo updates, Infendo Radio, and more
Hellooooooooo Infendo! Lots of stuff happening in Infendoland this week so let’s get right to it! If you haven’t heard the news, Infendo is under new ownership, oh hey that’s me! My name is Eugene and I used to contribute to the site a few years back. As you can probably see, the site has undergone some rather significant design changes. What do you all think? Not too shabby for ...
Nintentunes is back! Let’s start with the Rare classic Battletoads
Back in the day, I had an Infendo series of sorts dubbed Nintentunes, where games were featured that had excellent music. Well let’s oil up the gears on the old Infendo company blog generator and see what pops out. This weeks featured game is Battletoads for NES, the Rare classic…well maybe classic is too strong a term. I mean it controlled well enough, it was just so brutal! [youtube]...