An Old Tribute To Nintendo I Wrote A Few Years Ago

I love Nintendo. It’s perhaps one of the greatest video game companies in the entire world. But can you believe that it started out as a playing card company. It wasn’t until the late 70s and early 80s that Nintendo was on the ball. With classics like Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, and of course Super Mario Bros, Nintendo really made us have fun and enjoy ourselves, such as on days when it was rainy outside and we couldn’t play outdoors. It will surely entertain the whole world many years from now, when our great great great great great grandchildren are around.



If it’s any man we should be thanking for the famed games, it’s japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, who was responsible for the origins of Mario, Luigi, Link, Wario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, and many more. As a matter of fact, he is the reason why Nintendo is still in this world. After releasing the game Radarscope in the U.S. in 1978, it became one of the most unsuccessful games of the time. But young Miyamoto came up with Donkey Kong, based upon Popeye the Sailor Man and King Kong (kong means large in Japan). Not only was it the first game to introduce Mario (then called Jumpman) and Donkey Kong, it would also influence game designers in the years to come to create game that would be popularized all over the world.

Since then, Nintendo games were popularized all over the world. With very few cliched ideas, they released different games, obviously contrasted from the others. When the Nintendo Entertainment System arrived in 1985, it was the first to have Super Mario Bros. perhaps becoming the most successful game of all time. Today, SMB remains one of the most sold out games of all time. When the Super Nintendo arrived in 1991, we were introduced to new games, such as Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World, the best sellers of the system.



And me, growing up with the SNES has inspired me with the stories I write and the designs I create. But without Nintendo, the world would not be the same. We would not have experienced what we have experienced with the Nintendo systems. All I can say is that Nintendo will come out with many more beloved games in the near future. Thank you Nintendo, for charming us and entertaining us for many decades. Your games may be mundane, but they are masterpieces and classics that will never forgotten.