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40 Years Ago: ‘Donkey Kong’ Saves Nintendo From Failure Donkey Kong, the arcade game that saved the company. By this time Nintendo had been around nearly 100 years, though the company’s work had evolved greatly over time. It started as a playing-card company, later getting into such varied productions as instant rice and taxi services. In 1969, it ventured into an industry that would prove fruitful: electronic video games. For the next decade, Nintendo would achieve success in Japan with various home-gaming systems and arcade games. In 1979, the company decided it wanted to branch into...

Mario has been jumping and kicking around for a very long time at Nintendo. Though the iconic plumber was celebrated at Nintendo for 35 years worth of Super Mario Bros., Mario himself has been around even longer than that, and boy have he and his friends changed over the years. It’s Mario Day, March 10, and in honor of this special day, we’re going all the way back to the beginning to take a look at just how much Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom have shaped up over the decades since his first true appearance back in 1981. While this history contains many of the core entries, only some of th...

Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story review | An entertaining, sometimes bumpy Nintendo doc At the very least, it's terrific background noise. Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story, a documentary series from Jeremy Snead and Sean Astin about telling the full story of Nintendo from 1889 to present, arrives on Crackle tomorrow, March 1. It comes in five parts that add up to roughly five hours of content, making it perfect to space out across weeknight evenings or to gorge in a couple sittings as I did. It uses interviews with a variety of game designers and executives, game historians, form...

Hardware Review: MiSTer FPGA - A Tantalising Glimpse Into The Future Of Retro Gaming © Nintendo Life There's really never been a better time to be a retro gamer. Thanks to digital stores, micro consoles and DIY emulation boxes, we now have access to decades of gaming content – most of which can be played on our modern-day HD televisions without having to invest in expensive custom AV cables or dust off original hardware. The appetite for vintage gaming has arguably played a huge part in this deluge of content, which means that, should you feel the urge to sample the classics of yesteryear...

>> i was awakened by -- it felt like a dumpster being dropped in my yard. >> reporter: this huge oak crashing into two cars. thankfully no one was hurt. tragically, as sally approached, one person was killed by another falling tree. >> rob with us live tonight from atlanta. and rob, this isn't over yet? >> reporter: it's not. you see what it did here in east atlanta. now it's heading through the carolinas. and we still have a tornado watch that's posted. check it out on the radar scope. not only that, but heavy rain that's moving up through virginia, d.c., even new jersey. flood watches are po...