Compared to the likes of Sony, Sega and Microsoft, it always took gaming in an odd but satisfying direction. In the following years, Nintendo carved a niche for itself by being the quirky console manufacturer. You bought a single game and stuck to it.
Indeed, there was no internet to download them from.
There were no cartridges or other games to download. Game & Watch was a series of handhelds that only played a single game, and had either a clock, an alarm or in some cases, both. Despite what you might think, the NES wasn't Nintendo's first consumer games machine, that accolade belongs to the handheld series Game & Watch, although it has come on leaps and bounds since then. When it comes to games machines, Nintendo has an incredibly rich past.
(Pocket-lint) - It's a decade since the Nintendo 3DS first went on sale in Japan and a lot has happened both before and since!
