![]() The first two systems, Color TV-Game 6 and Color TV-Game 15, tried to gussy up its offerings with names like Hockey and Volleyball, but each one was just a slightly different version of Pong. The plug-and-play consoles came out before Donkey Kong, Nintendo's first big hit, and most of the titles included on the Color TV-Game consoles were just knock-offs of other, more popular games. In the late '70s, Nintendo released a handful of home consoles in Japan under the Color TV-Game banner, that brought some of Nintendo's biggest arcade games into players' living rooms.īut there's a reason you've never heard about the Color TV-Game system: it kinda sucked. The NES might be the system that made the Japanese game-maker synonymous with video games, but it wasn't actually Nintendo's first attempt to infiltrate the homes of players around the world. Video,' he might have disappeared off the face of the Earth." You don't say. "I don't think I should have gone with that name," Miyamoto admits. Thankfully, though, he changed his mind fast on the name. ![]() Apparently, Miyamoto was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, who made brief cameos in every single one of his movies, and manga artists like Osamu Tezuka and Fujio Akatsuka, who had recurring characters that appeared in different series. Video.' My plan was to use the same character in every video game I made," Miyamoto explains. And that's all true, but Jumpman wasn't Mario's original name, either.Īccording to none other than Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created Mario, "I called 'Mr. As the story goes, Nintendo's mascot was originally called Jumpman (woo), since his big superpower (and the key to Donkey Kong's success) was, well, jumping. ![]() When Mario made his big debut in Donkey Kong, he wasn't called Mario. ![]()
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