A 1976 NINTENDO *WOW*

[gameboy]

Here's a rarity that nobody seems to realise exists.Its a 1976 Nintendo duckhunt stand alone laser shooting game.
It consists of a shotgun much like the TinCanAlley game plus a small projector.
Its battery powered and all in Japanese.
The contents are still mint,wrapped and unused.
I would like some more info.
I will post some photos if you are interested and i can work out how to do so.
If not i will gladly email them in return for information.

[Fryguy64]

I actually had the original Duck Hunt toy up on the site under "Toys & Games" - but I never got the section back up after updating the site's layout.

I know very little about it that you haven't already said. It's 1976, it's the precursor to the NES Duck Hunt, and it's actually a projector with one of Nintendo's "Kousenjuu" beam guns... presumably the infrared light reads the position of the duck on the wall and registers whether it was a hit or not. But not having one I really wouldn't know.

I think I've still got it listed on the Duck Hunt franchise page (link) but there's no info there.

As a bit of bonus info, the clay-shooting game on the NES Duck Hunt is based on the Clay Shooting ranges that Nintendo opened in Japan during the 1970s to great success.

[Solid Snake]

Before knowing NintendoDatabase, I never knew about Nintendo's "lost" games.

[Fryguy64]

Neither did I! That's why I started it. The promo video showing off the SSBM trophy mode at E3 2001 before the game's release opened my eyes to all the games I had no idea existed. That's why I set up the site.

Then after I set up the site I found even more games that weren't even in the trophy video, like Fire Emblem. Before I knew it I was well versed in Fire Emblem and wasn't really surprised to see one of the most popular Japanese strategy games appearing in SSBM. If anything I was surprised they weren't in SSB.

But it's been a long road. Wario Ware made me look up Nintendo's old toys as well, and I got quite a lot of good information on them, but it's sitting idle, and won't be up for a while.

[Solid Snake]

where did you get the info(outside Warioware and Super Smash Brothers Melee)?

[Fryguy64]

Mostly from Japanese websites and contributors. I found lists of things Nintendo made, and the more interesting ones were up for a while, but it was very hard to track down more info on them.

That's why the "Toys & Games" bit is currently down. I have no idea when it will start going back up, as I've not started working on it.

[Solid Snake]

You can read Japanese?

[Fryguy64]

No, but I am picking it up. Y'see, in Japan they have three alphabets. The two "Kana" alphabets (hiragana and katakana) are made up of small sounds. So long as you recognise the letters of the alphabet then you know the sounds they make.

However, Hiragana is what the Japanese usually write in, and contains all of the little inflections and possessives, etc. - this is what you mainly learn when you learn the Japanese language.

Katakana is where I come in. Katakana is almost exclusively used as a way of translating English or other foreign words into Japanese text. When you read a word in Katakana it sounds a bit like how a stereotypical Japanese person would speak in English. For example:
Super Mario Bros. becomes
su~pa~marioburaza~zu (where the ~ are elongated vowel sounds).
I can translate this easily enough. I'm getting better at Hiragana too, especially the regularly occuring sentence ones ("no" for possessive, "ka" for a question, etc.)

Then there's Kanji... the Chinese alphabet. Whenever you see a fancy drawing in a Japanese/Chinese alphabet, this is what it usually will be. There are over 5500 designs in this alphabet, and they each correspond to a concept or item, or something.

Thankfully, many of Nintendo's games don't use Kanji much, and when they do, they provide a handy Hiragana reference to how the words are spoken.

Plus there's plenty of decent online dictionaries and translators that help. I spend a lot of time on them when I'm working on the site's Japanese content.

[Solid Snake]

Why is it that Japanese is becomeing popular to learn nowadays?

Oww, I just remembered an article I read the other day here:
www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html

[Adlubescence]

I know German, so I can understand Panzer Dragoon and Xenogears.
Hooray! ;D

[Yamato.EXE V2]

I love that vacuum game but i don't remember it's name, it starts with a ch

[Xeno82]

Yamato said:

I love that vacuum game but i don't remember it's name, it starts with a ch

I don't think it was a game. I think it was an actual remote controlled vacuum.

[Fryguy64]

Yamato said:

I love that vacuum game but i don't remember it's name, it starts with a ch

Chiritorie - and yes, it was a real remote controlled vacuum cleaner made by Nintendo. The Warioware game version is pretty cool though

[missingno.is back?]

The Nintendo DB rekindled my interests in collecting NES, now I own 80 NES games, they also helped me start up on SNES once again. As well as showing me tons of the lost Nintendo stuff. Nowadays I play anything and know tons about gaming.

I'm not suprised about 1976 things made from Nintendo since in the 1800's Nintendo was even around as some fancy card game.

[Fryguy64]

It set me off on a collection spree as well... only I seem to be working backwards - my first-party-published Gamecube and N64 collections are nearly complete, whereas I'm still way behind on NES and SNES.

But hey, you can't go wrong with a Virtual Boy and an animation cel from the Donkey Kong cereal commercial. They make ANY collection look good. Oh and some Pokémon comic book signed by the voice actors who do Meowth and Brock.