Nintendo Fighting Back
Posted on : 14-06-2008 | By : Alex Shaw | In : Site News
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Following our Sega episode I trawled through gaming history on the net and found that Nintendo did in fact release one console flop prior to the Virtual Boy. Behold now the Nintendo ‘Video Boy’. This was a combination VCR and Game Boy released only in China and Saudi Arabia in 1993 in direct competition with Sega’s Game Gear. Apparently Nintendo were impressed with Sega’s combining of their various consoles with popular entertainment platforms and sought to challenge their market dominance in this field. They teamed up with Phillips to release this machine. Ultimately this led to rivalry and a falling out with their other bedfellows; Sony, who went on to make the Playstation.
It failed due to piracy, though several games were planned to make use of the video features, including ‘Edit King’ and ‘Fast Forward Fox’.
Apparently they go for several hundred quid on eBay.
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The Digital Cowboys Game Boy episode: Coming soon.
Alex
