wtf they changed their seal.

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YesWiiCan on 08 May 2009

I was looking through my games and I saw the Nintendo offical seal I knew it was there before but never really read it and I was wondering if the old games had that. So I went and check and it was different the old games had things like This seal is your assurance that Nintendo has approved and guaranteed the quality of this product. Then on the N64 it said Official Nintendo Seal of Quality. and on the gamecube some games said that and other said Official Nintendo Seal. Why did they change they seal?

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O-D-C on 08 May 2009

ask Nintendo

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YesWiiCan on 08 May 2009

no they take forever to answer 1 question.

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J-Favs on 08 May 2009

I know wikipedia has an article on the seal, so that might help.

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alfredofroylan on 08 May 2009

YesWiiCan said:

I was looking through my games and I saw the Nintendo offical seal I knew it was there before but never really read it and I was wondering if the old games had that. So I went and check and it was different the old games had things like This seal is your assurance that Nintendo has approved and guaranteed the quality of this product. Then on the N64 it said Official Nintendo Seal of Quality. and on the gamecube some games said that and other said Official Nintendo Seal. Why did they change they seal?

This's a LONG, LONG story so grab a cup of cofee and sit down.

Back in the old days, when the Atari 2600, the Intellivision and the Colecovision appeared in the gaming world, there was anarchy and a complete lack of rules about development in games, Coleco release a perpheral to play Atari2600 games on their system without Atari's endorsment and there was copies and copies of the same game, just look at these Pacman ripoffs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J27d6trDUU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD42H5WQCsY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZlcIghDqmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ahLE4hkPZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQE0gjqv-qA

So to stop that Nintendo put a lot of restrictions on 3D parties: a) They couldn't release the same game on other console and b) They couldn't release more than 5 games per year. The companies were pissed about this restrictions so Nintendo decide to be more flexible about them and they started to drop some of the restrictions with time. Anyway the Seal of Quality NEVER worked (how can we explain games like Friday 13th, Roger Rabbit, Dr. Jeckyl, etc. on the NES)

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NES on 08 May 2009

YesWiiCan said:

I was looking through my games and I saw the Nintendo offical seal I knew it was there before but never really read it and I was wondering if the old games had that. So I went and check and it was different the old games had things like This seal is your assurance that Nintendo has approved and guaranteed the quality of this product. Then on the N64 it said Official Nintendo Seal of Quality. and on the gamecube some games said that and other said Official Nintendo Seal. Why did they change they seal?

They changed it for the shovelware.