Nintendos next generation, not a console, still a winner.

[Squilliam]

alephnull said:

Squilliam said:

They were originally a playing card manufacturer. They've had an interesting history over the years of trying different things. The Wii itself is almost a throw back to the 80s as much as Lady Gaga is leading an 80s revival. I did say reinvent itself, but not in terms of throwing away successful I.P. Who would throw away a more well known character than Mickey Mouse?

They pretty much still are, the cards just have Pokemon on them.

Anyhow it's not such a great leap, Matel made a similar jump with the Intellivision. Many of the original video game developers were tabletop game companies. If you look at an old computer gaming world magazine from the 80s, Wargames were the dominant genre akin to the FPS today. Plus MS started out making traffic light software and Sony started out making radios.

I think you might have a point if every other new Disney blockbuster was a Mickey movie. That's not to say everything is exactly the same, Mario is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more anoiying now that he can talk.

But now you gotta catch em all!

I remember the stories about the some of the games, real time strategy was a genre which started on the tabletop but really evolved into something more on the PC platform especially. I was really too young to remember as I started on the MS-DOS operating system and I believe I learnt how to type before I learnt how to read or write by copying my mother and father to boot up games.

The point is also about how Mario has declined with time whereas Mario has stayed fresh and relatively current. If Mario was as popular as he was back in the 60s/70s they would have probably kept using him as the centrepiece of their games.