Curated category
1990s toys
- PlayStation (console)On the morning of the 27th of January 1991, Howard Lincoln stepped onto a stage in Las Vegas and announced that Nintendo had abandoned its partnership with…
- Sega SaturnIn 1992, Sega began developing the Saturn while its Model 1 arcade hardware was already proving that 3D polygonal graphics could captivate players.
- Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemOn the 9th of September 1987, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi revealed the development of the Super Famicom in a newspaper article published by Kyoto…
- Nintendo 64In 1993, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi met with Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark to discuss a new console partnership.
- Game Boy ColorIn the early 1990s, a team led by Satoru Okada experimented with color displays for Nintendo's handheld line. Their prototype carried the codename Project…
- Game BoyOn the 10th of June 1987, division director Gunpei Yokoi informed R&D1 that Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi wanted a successor to the Game & Watch series…
- DreamcastIn 1997, Sega faced a crisis that would define its future. The company had just reported its first consolidated net loss since listing on the Tokyo Stock…
- Master SystemSega released its first video game console, the SG-1000, in Japan on the 15th of July 1983. This launch occurred on the same day that Nintendo introduced the…
- TurboGrafx-16In July 1985, Hudson Soft approached Nintendo with a proposal for a new add-on to the Famicom. This device would use patented Bee Cards to store full games…
- PokémonSatoshi Tajiri was born on the 28th of August 1965 in Machida, a suburb of Tokyo. He spent his childhood collecting insects and small creatures in the ponds…
- Nintendo Entertainment SystemOn the 15th of July 1983, the Famicom console arrived in Japanese stores with a price tag of ¥68,000. Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi had demanded a…
- G.I. Joe: A Real American HeroThe 1982 relaunch of G.I. Joe began with a chance encounter in a men's room between the presidents of Hasbro and Marvel Comics.
- Dragon BallAkira Toriyama sat in his studio in 1983, surrounded by reference books on Hong Kong martial arts films. He had just finished a one-shot manga called Dragon…