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The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible. Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape. The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who... read more
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People edit
- Gunpei Yokoi: An inventor for Nintendo who came up with the idea of portable electronic games.
- Hiroshi Yamauchi: The president of Nintendo who began the effort to extend Nintendo's success to America.
- Minoru Awakawa: Hiroshi Yamauchi's son-in-law, who ran the new American branch, Nintendo of America.
- Shigeru Miyamoto: A staff artist for Nintendo who had designed casings for games, but not games themselves, and who, with the help of Gunpei Yokoi, designed the game-changing Donkey Kong.
- Mario Bros.: Add a description of this character.
- Minoru Arakawa
- Yoshi
- Satoru Iwata
- Zelda
- Bowser
- Uemura
- Jumpman
- Kirby
- Lincoln
- Pauline
- Baby Mario
- Link
- Luigi
- Wario
- Hal
- Howard Phillips
- Hoskins
- Koopa
- Ron Judy
- Gamecube
First Sentence edit
In 1980, starting an arcade game took a quarter.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction: Mario's Inside Story
Part 1. Arcade Fire
1. Baby Mario: The Birth of Nintendo of America
2. Mario's Artist: Shigeru Miyamoto and the Creation of Donkey Kong
3. Mario's Brawl: The MCA Universal Lawsuit
4. Mario's Early Years: The Video Game Crash of 1983
Part 2. Super 8
5. Mario's Island: Japan and the Famicon
6. Mario's Sunshine: Super Mario Bros. and the Nintendo Entertainment System
7. Mario's Bomb: The Lost Levels
8. Mario's Smash: Super Mario Bros. 3
9. Mario's Brothers: The NES and the Game Boy
10. Mario's Drift: Sega, the Genesis and a Very Fast Hedgehog
Part 3. Sweet 16
11. Mario's Clash: The Sonic-Mario Showdown
12. Mario's Galaxy: Spinoffs Galore
13. Mario the Juggler: Mario Paint
14. Mario's Advance: Nintendo's Discs
15. Mario's Kart(ridge): Virtual Boy and Other Three-Dimensional Fun
Part 4. Third Prize is You're Fired
16. Mario's World: The N64
17. Mario's Communication Kit: The Nintendo 64DD
18. Mario's Melee: The Gamecube
19. Mario's Time Machine: The Game Boy Advance
20. Mario's Saga: Sunshine and Darkness
Part 5. Wii Are the Champions
21. Mario's Revolution: The DS
22. Mario's Princess: The Wii
23. Mario's Party: Three Days in the Life of Nintendo
24. Mario's Legend: The Future of Nintendo
Thanks, Mario, But Our Notes and Acknowledgments Are In Another Castle
Bibliography
Index
Glossary edit
- Solenoid: A cylindrical coil of wire acting as a magnet when carrying electric current.
- Zaibatsu: Japanese industrial and financial business conglomerates, from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.
- Hanafuda: Colorful flower cards.
- Mukokuseki: A Japanese word meaning “no nationality”; stateless, without country of origin, mixed or multicultural.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 1591844053
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 1591844053
Page Count: 304
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 338.76179480973
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