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by NicoJuicy 2050 days ago
Tsss... Nintendo :p

> Curiously, at the time it came out, a study deemed the PokéWalker one of the best pedometers available at the time.

I still remember the "Duck hunt gun" on the Super Nintendo which was widely interesting.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/26875/how-did-duck-hunt-...

(couldn't find the original source of that information though)
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sdrothrock 2050 days ago
> I still remember the "Duck hunt gun" on the Super Nintendo which was widely interesting.

The Duck Hunt zapper was for the original Nintendo, but the Super Nintendo had the Super Scope. :)

https://theoldschoolgamevault.com/blog/articles/1007-super-n...

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grishka 2050 days ago
The link doesn't open for me. It simply says "access denied" and that it's powered by cloudflare. None of my two VPN servers help overcome this. God I hate cloudflare.
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eznzt 2050 days ago
>Tsss... Nintendo :p

Chances are this was subcontracted.

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Danieru 2050 days ago
That's less likely than you might expect. Nintendo for a while ran their own manufacturing. Judging from the data structures I would expect this at minimum had a Nintendo Project Manager in charge.

Flip side: you are going to be techincally correct. Nintendo has deep relationships with local companies even when those local companies are not fully Nintendo owned. Deepest example might be Intelligent Systems which programmed and manufactured Nintendo's devkits up until the Switch era.

Game Freak in theory is independent. They used Sega to publish their pet project platformer game. Yet somehow Nintendo just a few months ago moved them to an amalgamated office tower along with all other 100% Nintendo owned Tokyo studios. The message being that Nintendo keeps strong control through their project managers.

Source: my uncle works at Nintendo. /s

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