childhood

One of the many things I remember about childhood was the video games...getting our first Nintendo, Sega and Nintendo 64. It was considered cool to have a gaming system them. Who didn't love paintball mode in golden eye, or knowing where the warp tubes were in Mario? I think my favorite games were Mario Party (hello, hot rope jump was awesome) or ninja turtles on the original Nintendo. Now I have a PS2, which I rarely play apart from the random days where I have nothing better to do than strengthen my characters on FFX. That's right...I totally admit to playing it and I like it! Okay so Nintendo....

• Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company
• Their first video game was released in 1978
• Nintendo means leave luck to heaven in Japanese
• Shigeru Miyamoto invented Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda and the Wii
• By 1990 Mario became more recognizable than Mickey
• Miyamoto was a huge fan of Walt Disney
• Top three franchises are Mario, Pokemon and Zelda
• The Nintendo DS recently surpassed Gameboy as the best selling hand-held gaming device
• In 2008, Nintendo made 1.82M for every employee
• In 2009, during thanksgiving 2.5 systems sold each second
• Porn games were released without Nintendo's permission. They were called: Peek-a-boo Poker, Bubble Bath Babes and Hot Slots
• Mario has a 27' vertical jump
• There are 235 different mario games
• 31 different mario powerups