• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    Nintendo is why DRM is a thing. The NES CIC lockout chip avoided the 2600’s shovelware problem… and created an abusive monopoly, that generation.

    Nintendo secretly had color screens developed for the upcoming Game Boy, switched to black & white, and left the screen manufacturer hung out to dry. Which is why the Game Gear and Lynx coincidentally have the same resolution.

    Nintendo was politely informed by SNK that they’d be making their own handheld. A year later the Game Boy Color dropped as a secret fuck-you to the Neo Geo Pocket.

    Nintendo informed Sony they had cancelled their SNES-CD add-on by announcing an SNES-CD add-on made by Philips. At the Consumer Electronics Show. After Sony’s big presentation about their SNES-CD add-on.

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      23 hours ago

      Nintendo informed Sony they had cancelled their SNES-CD add-on by announcing an SNES-CD add-on made by Philips. At the Consumer Electronics Show. After Sony’s big presentation about their SNES-CD add-on.

      Sony really ended up winning with that one in the long run, though.