愛されるハードたち

任天堂ハードにまつわる豆知識 (日々是遊戯)

Another trivia list from Hibikore, this time about the Nintendo hardware.

1. Famicom was red because that was the cheapest coloured plastic available at the time. Having the controllers attached to the console and the lack of the start and select buttons on the controller #2 were all measures taken to reduce the cost of production.

2. Famicom game cartridges can actually be manually removed. The eject lever mechanism was included to make children happy with bouncing game cartridges.

3. The famous Game Boy that was damaged when barracks were bombed during the Gulf War, but still works. (I often hear stories of working Game Boy after being ran over by heavy trucks or flushed in the toilet. Modern hand-held devices? Lucky if they survive a 5-foot drop.)


4. When inputted into 3D modelling software, the logo of Nintendo 64 is shown to have 64 vertexes and 64 faces. Coincidence?

5. Speed up the menu BGM of GameCube 16 times and you'll get the start up BGM of the Famicom Disk System, as someone found out almost 10 years after the release of the Disk System.


6. Panasonic actually released an accessory, Q, to add DVD playback to the GameCube back in 2001. However PS2 was already doing this and had a large market share, the add-on device didn't sell well. GameCube itself was actually a joint project between Nintento and Panasonic, but Panasonic had completely pulled out of the game industry after 3DO.

7. Wii-related products have a product number that starts with RVL, which refers to its original developer code name, Revolution. GameCube-related products start with DOL for its code name, Dolphin; NDS-related products start with NTR (not to be confused with NTR, netorare/寝取られ) for its code name, Nitro.

8. There's over 26,000,000 people in Japan with their own Mii and over 1.8 millions Mii around the world.

Conclusion:
任天堂はみんなに愛されるだな、本当に。何か皆のこと、子供の頃からずっと見守っている様な（笑）。さすが歴史ある会社。