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Founder and first president of Nintendo, Fusajiro Yamauchi
Nintendo Gameboy Advance released on this day 15 years ago in Japan
Young Masahiro Sakurai at the age of 29
Previous President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, with current president
Nintendo employees from old factory on a hunger strike in 1955
Iwata announcing his deal with DeNA almost a year ago
Nintendo finally announced their movement into mobile games nearly a year ago where former President of Nintendo Iwata shared his deal with DeNA and also, the first ever talk from Nintendo of the ‘NX’. This first app from Nintendo will be Miitomo and it in fact will be releasing in two days from (March 17) now in Japan. It should be expected to be released in the west sometime in the coming weeks.
Nintendo Gamecube’s prototype ‘Dolphin’ revealed in 1999
Nintendo first announced the successor to the Nintendo 64 in their E3 show in 1999. The console had the working name of ‘Dolphine’ and looked very much different in the first reveal. With the reveal, Nintendo still wanted to keep the Nintendo 64 living and kept quite about their console code-named ‘Dolphin’ for over a year. Nintendo finally unveiled their next gen console on August 24, 2000 where the official name was given.
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was revealed back in 1997 at E3
Nintendo’s third ever E3 show was a success with the big hitter, the reveal of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64. The game would soon be shown next year in 1998 in their fourth E3 where the final look of the game was presented.