Happy Birthday to the NES, Companion to Millions of Nintendo Childhoods

The World’s Hardest Super Mario Quiz

Forty years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System hit North American shores, singlehandedly resurrecting the video-game market after its infamous post-Atari crash in 1983. To do so, it needed a heavy hitter, a killer must-have title that could put butts in seats and lock audiences into the tube TV until their eyes bleed. That game was Super Mario Bros. — a product so potent, its exact alchemy has never been re-created. Although Mario himself …

Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods

Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US – and a generation of kids were sucked into video games for lifeThe Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the United States on 18 October 1985: about a year after I was born, and 40 years ago today. It’s as if the company sensed that a sucker who’d spend thousands of dollars on plastic toys and electronic games had just entered the world. Actually, it’s as if…

Nintendo aims to make 25 million Switch 2s to set gaming history

(Bloomberg) — Nintendo Co. has asked suppliers to produce as many as 25 million units of the Switch 2 by the end of March 2026, setting the company up for record first-year sales of a console that’s already reached high-water marks for the global gaming sector.

Nintendo Aims to Make 25 Million Switch 2 Units to Set Gaming History

Nintendo is likely to comfortably surpass analysts’ estimates for sales of 17.6 million devices in the fiscal year ending March, let alone its own much lower public forecast, the people said, asking not to be named discussing private plans. Nintendo can be expected to sell roughly 20 million units of the Switch 2 this fiscal year.