Inside Nintendo 1990

PostInside Nintendo 1990 by **Captain Kinopio** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:48 pm

This is strawberry floating mad gooseberry fool.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/inside_ni ... 90/z48spg8

PostRe: Inside Nintendo 1990 by **Ironhide** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:17 pm

Around 4 minutes in, is that a Super Mario Kart prototype running in the background?

PostRe: Inside Nintendo 1990 by **Cheeky Devlin** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:41 am

Ironhide wrote:Around 4 minutes in, is that a Super Mario Kart prototype running in the background?

Nah that's Famicom Grand Prix: F1 Race.

Interesting wee watch though.

I stumbled across this article yesterday. Thats some early 90's games coverage right there. I particularly liked the bit where the yuppie was "playing" that game whilst "game over" flashed repeatedly on the screen.

PostRe: Inside Nintendo 1990 by **Victor Mildew** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:45 am

That Mario maker prototype :wub:

What a strange way to frame a story about Nintendo, pretty much BEWARE THE JAPANESE but don't worry they can't understand English so anything with a keyboard is safe!

PostRe: Inside Nintendo 1990 by **Dig Dug** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:49 am

Cheeky Devlin wrote:
Ironhide wrote:Around 4 minutes in, is that a Super Mario Kart prototype running in the background?

Nah that's Famicom Grand Prix: F1 Race.

Interesting wee watch though.

Nintendo have a rule where workers can only be shown working on pre-existing titles when any office recording was going on.
There was a German documentary about Nintendo after the release of Star Fox where exactly that happened.

PostRe: Inside Nintendo 1990 by **Green Gecko** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:41 pm

"The Japanese are good at copying western technology" but struggle with the creative side of things? Wow that's pretty brazen.

PostRe: Inside Nintendo 1990 by **Tomous** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:49 pm

Green Gecko wrote:"The Japanese are good at copying western technology" but struggle with the creative side of things? Wow that's pretty brazen.

Brazen and wrong :lol:

PostRe: Inside Nintendo 1990 by **Green Gecko** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:51 pm

Yeah, obviously MS, IBM and Apple are the pinnacle of creative enterprise and nothing innovative has come out of Japan in the 70s/80s. :lol:

Despite that that program is some 40 years after the de-imperialisation of Japan, it's strawberry floating jingoistic bollocks. I know this was 30 years ago but wow. I guess it is kinda more offensive to me now I have family over there and some people still believe stuff like this.

I once had a conversation with some nerd a couple years ago about how "Japanese manga are just copying western comics, they saw comics from US soldiers during THE GREAT CULTURAL STEAL aka WW2 and then starting copying those". I'm like, dude, this society has an entire strawberry floating language based around pictograms, had you ever considered that visual communication is just, well, literally the default mode of recorded information over there? Cartoons are everywhere in Japan, and they're not just considered "Cartoons" either, which is a shitty word for "low art for children". I pointed out how exaggerated facial expressions and poses exist in statues and murals thousands of years old in temples I have actually visited. He's like, "but, but, how can you not see, I don't understand. It's obviously the same format as MAH COMICS". Such logic. Very culture.

Our alphabet is ripped off from the Romans and Greeks, our numerals are Arabic. Ignorant strawberry floats.

Still, an interesting if profoundly condescending "Safari" clip.

PostRe: Inside Nintendo 1990 by **Victor Mildew** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:51 pm

"And they talk funny!" - man in columbo Mac

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