Here
you will find a few timelines about Nintendo's past and present:
So were does the
Virtual Boy fit into Nintendo's history? You'll find out in the
below list; The last list in this section includes a huge amount
of classical consoles of which some have "died" long
ago, no doubt about it the Virtual Boy will take an increasingly
good spot in that list of which many are now famed retro
consoles; In between I have included my own all time favorite
games with unforgettable moments they brought me at those
dark & rainy days, ah the nostalgia.
Here's a timeline of
Nintendo's biggest releases and moments:
- 1889 upto 1980: Hanafuda Playing Cards (JPN)
- 1970: Ultra Hand & Beam Gun (JPN)
- 1977: TV-Game
6 (JPN)
- 1978: Computer
Othello (JPN)
- 1980: Game
& Watch series
- 1981: Donkey Kong (arcade)
- 1982: Donkey Kong Jr.
(arcade)
- 1983: Mario Bros. (arcade),
Donkey Kong 3 (arcade), Famicom
(JPN)
- 1985: NES,
Super Mario Bros., Famicom Disk
System [add-on] (JPN) *
- 1987: The Legend of Zelda,
Metroid
- 1988: Mike Tyson's Punch
Out, Super Mario Bros. 2
- 1989: Game
Boy, Tetris, Super Mario Land, Zelda: The Adventure
of Link
- 1990: Super Mario Bros. 3, Super
Famicom (JPN)
- 1991: Super
Nintendo, Super Mario World
- 1992: Super Mario Kart, Zelda: A Link to the Past,
Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
- 1993: NES
2[AV] (JPN), Star Fox, Zelda: Link's Awakening
- 1994: Super Metroid, Donkey
Kong Country, Super Game Boy
- 1995: Virtual
Boy, Super
Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
- 1996: Nintendo
64, Game Boy
Pocket, Super Mario 64, Pilotwings
64
- 1997: GoldenEye 007, Star
Fox 64, Mario Kart 64, Diddy
Kong Racing
- 1998: Banjo-Kazooie, Game
Boy Color, Pokémon Red & Blue, Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- 1999: Pokémon Yellow,
Mario Party, Super Smash Bros., Donkey Kong 64, 64DD
[add-on]
- 2000: Pokémon Gold & Silver, Perfect Dark, Zelda:
Majora's Mask
- 2001: Game
Boy Advance, Mario Kart Advance, GameCube,
Luigi's Mansion, SSB:Melee
- 2002: Super Mario Sunshine, Starfox
Adventures, Metroid Prime, Zelda:
The Wind Waker
- 2003: Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire, Wario
World, F-Zero, Starfox Armada, Mario Kart, DK
*The USA NES = Nintendo Entertainment
System = the 'same' as the JPN Famicom = Family Computer System.
Ferry's all time favorite
games [my timeline 1989 - 2000]:
- Super Mario Bros.
--NES/GBC-- Favorite moment: (me aged 8) when I first
turned the NES on I got for my birthsday on 10-feb-1989
and started playing the game, hearing the Mario tune for
the first time, jumping the platforms made me an instant
gamefan upto this day, oh and I finished the game
4-apr-2000 on my GBC!!;
- Duck Hunt --NES-- I must
have shot a duck in every possible pose, I once shot one
when upside down you know!;
- Super Mario Land --GB--
Favorite moment: aiming your fireball with effect in
order to kill a Koopa Troopa;
- Tetris --GB-- Favorite
moment: "LEVEL UP";
- Super Mario Bros.2 --NES--
Favorite moment: killing baddies with vegetables;
- Choplifter --Commodore64--
Favorite moment: shooting the enemy jetplanes while
saving the little people;
- Super Mario Land2 --GB--
Favorite moment: finding the secret that leads to the
moonworld & defeating a huge Wario;
- Super Mario Bros.3 --NES--
Favorite moment: working your way through the
aircruiser-endlevels & then battling one of Bowser's
kids, finding the secret part in Desertland, this game is
plain said brilliant!;
- Zelda --NES-- Favorite
moment: uhhh...killing those irritating spiders;
- Leisure Suit Larry --PC--
Favorite moment: YO CAB!!;
- Lemmings --PC-- Favorite
moment: WHOAAA...SPLAT!!!;
- Prince of Persia --PC--
Favorite moment: defeating that ugly fat-ass boss! it
took ages to get there;
- Castle Wolfenstein --PC--
Favorite moment: shooting the guy that says: Eine kleine
Amerikane!;
- Wario Land --GB-- Favorite
moment: stealing many MANY coints in Sherbetland;
- Ninja Ryukende --GB--
Favorite moment: the music in this game is incredibly
good, it grows even more adrenaline pumping once you're
up against a boss;
- Batman --NES/GB-- Favorite
moment: swinging from ceiling to ceiling;
- Puzzle Bobble --Neo-Geo--
Favorite moment: shooting the whole ceiling down in one
shot... thus defeating your opponent;
- R-Type --GB-- Favorite
moment: blasting, blasting, and more blasting!;
- Donkey Kong --GB-- Favorite
moment: rescue-ing the princess ofcourse;
- Phantasmagoria --PC--
Favorite moment: seeing the murders being commited in a
kind of dreamstate, spooooky;
- Mortal Kombat --SNES--
Favorite moment: chopping someones head off never feld so
good before!;
- Super Mario Kart --SNES--
Favorite moment: the multiplayer mayhem!;
- Super Mario Allstars
--SNES-- Favorite moment: playing those Lost Levels,
darn, I was looking for those since Mario Bros.;
- Zelda: A link to the past
--SNES-- Favorite moment: uhhhh...puzzling;
- Super Metroid --SNES--
Favorite moment: choosing the right gear;
- Donkey Kong Country 1
--SNES-- Favorite moment: the lost mines?!, lost
indeed!!;
- Donkey Kong Country 2
--SNES-- Favorite moment: playing the lost world levels;
- Donkey Kong Country 3
--SNES-- Favorite moment: race against the bear;
- Killer Instinct --SNES--
Favorite moment: after doing an Ultra Combo hearing the
voiceover scream "ultra ULTRA ULTRAAA";
- Super Mario World: Yoshi's
Story --SNES-- Favorite moment: getting baby Mario back
on Yoshi's back again, so Mario'll stop his whining &
seeing bosses explode in 1000th's of colours;
- Command & Conquer+The
Covert Operations add-on --PC-- Favorite moment: plotting
stategies or just building a HUGE army!;
- Command & Conquer: Red
Alert --PC-- Favorite moment: in the intro when Einstein
says "Time will tell, sooner or later, time will
tell";
- Virtual On --Arcade/Sega--
Favorite moment: nuking your enemy's with rockets while
blazing at them with full speed, rocket off into the sky
to finish the job with one final missle... BANG!;
- Virtual Boy's Wario Land
--VB-- Favorite moment: jumping into the background and
back again! & battling 3D enemy's;
- Mario Clash --VB-- Favorite
moment: killing all those lame Koopa Troopa's, kill KILL
KILL every single last one of them!;
- Space Invaders --GB/VB--
Favorite moment: finishing a level;
- Super Mario64 --N64--
Favorite moment: flying Mario with the Wingcap towards
the floating island;
- Pilotwings64 --N64--
Favorite moment: cruising around in the air with the
Jetpack or Gyrocopter;
- Mario Kart64 --N64--
Favorite moment: I'm still playing this "multiplayer
fest" game every week after almost 4 years, need I
say more?;
- Wario Land2 --GB-- Favorite
moment: seeing Wario run around like crazy after he sees
his ass is on fire!;
- Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle Of
Flesh --PC-- Favorite moment: it scared my ass off when I
saw the mother of the maincharacter being hanged all of a
sudden, you could see her choking!;
- Jurassic Park --Arcade--
Favorite moment: being chased by a 3D visualised T-Rex
while driving away at topspeed and trying to gun the darn
beast down!;
- Metal Slug --Arcade--
Favorite moment: I'm usually not that violent, but
cutting a Nazi's throat looks so cool;
- Metal Slug2 --Arcade--
Favorite moment: teaming up with a friend and then
blasing everything in the game to little pieces;
- Metal SlugX --Arcade--
Favorite moment: when I shot the bunny and I actually got
a bonus!;
- Blade Runner --PC--
Favorite moment: Mc Coy: just one?! bartender: One, but
one good one!;
- Outcast --PC-- Favorite
moment: the entirer games makes you feel you're living
it, only game that could ever better this game is
Outcast2;
- Need for Speed series
--PC-- Favorite moment: putting the pedal to the metal at
the start of a race!;
- Command & Conquer:
Tiberian Sun+the Firestorm add-on --PC-- Favorite moment:
in the intro when EVA says "Welcome back
Commander";
- The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time --N64-- Favorite moment: There's no end to what you can see
and do (even in the proto I
played once);
- Super Smash Bros. --N64--
Favorite moment: Donkey Kong bashing Mario's head in with
a baseballbat, revenge is so sweet! ;-p
- Super Monkey Ball --GC-- Favorite moment:
The chaos a 4-player battle of monkeyfight causes.
List of (mostly) classical
consoles and their prices:
"#Console-Manufacturer-Launch
Date- Launch Price" with any missing info being marked with
'n/a.'
- Odyssey-Magnavox-May 3,
1972-$100
- Pong-Atari-Fall 1974-n/a
- Odyssey
100-Magnavox-December 1975-n/a
- Telstar-Coleco-1976-$50
- Video Entertainment System
(Channel F)-Fairchild-August 1976-$170
- Studio II-RCA-January
1977-n/a
- Telstar
Arcade-Coleco-1977-n/a
- Ultra Pong
Doubles-Atari-1977-n/a
- Tank-Atari-1977-n/a
- Video
Pinball-Atari-1977-n/a
- Stunt Cycle-Atari-1977-n/a
- Combat-Coleco-1977-n/a
- VCS
(Atari2600)-Atari-October 1977-$200
- Videobrain-Videobrain-1977-$300
- Bally Professional Arcade
(Astro Professional Arcade, Astrocade)-Bally
(Astrovision)-February 1978 (August 1980)-$300
- Odyssey2-Magnavox-1978-n/a
- Imagination Machine-APF
Electronics-Early 1980-$499
- Intellivision-Mattel-1980-$299
- Vectrex-GCE/Milton
Bradley-October 1982-$200
- Arcadia
2001-Emerson-1982-$100
- Colecovision-Coleco-September
1982-n/a
- 5200-Atari-1982-$349.99
- Channel F II-Zircon
International-1982-$99
- Intellivision
II-Mattel-1983-n/a
- Gemini (Columbia Home
Arcade)-Coleco (Columbia House)-1983-$49.95
- Video Arcade
System-Ultravision-1983-$500
- 7800-Atari-1984-$140
- Halcyon-RDI Video
Systems-Winter 1984-$2000
- NES-Nintendo-1985-$159
- Intellivision III (was this
ever released for retail?)-INTV-1986-$59.95
- Master
System-Sega/Tonka-1986-n/a
- XE Game
System-Atari-November 1987-$129
- InteractiveVision,
View-Master, 1988, $125
- TurboGrafx-16 -NEC-Late
August 1989-$199.95
- TurboGrafx-CD -NEC-Fall
1989-n/a
- Genesis-Sega-August
30,1989-$189
- Master System
2-Sega-1990-n/a
- Neo.Geo-SNK-Late 1990-$399
- CDTV-Commodore-Early
1991-$999
- SNES-Nintendo-September
1,1991-$200
- CD-i -Phillips-1991-$1400
- 3DO-Multiple Manufacturers
(3DO system design)-Early October 1993-$700
- Turbo-Duo -TTI-October
10,1992-$300
- Sega CD-Sega-October
15,1992-$299
- Genesis 2-Sega-Summer
1993-n/a
- Sega CD 2-Sega-Summer
1993-$229
- Jaguar-Atari Corp.-Late
1993-$250
- NES 2-Nintendo-Fall
1993-$50
- Amiga CD32-Commodore-Late
1993-n/a
- Genesis CDX-Sega-March
1994-$400
- X'Eye-JVC-September
1994-$500
- 32X-Sega-Late November
1994-$159
- Saturn-Sega-May
11,1995-$399
- Virtual Boy-Nintendo-Juli
21,1995-$207 (Japan), $179 (USA August14, 1995)
- Playstation-Sony-September
9,1995-$299
- Jaguar CD-Atari
Corp.-September 15,1995-$200
- Playstation(7000)-Sony-November
1996-$199
- Nintendo
64-Nintendo-September 25,1996-$199
- Yarooze
Playstation-Sony-1st Quarter 1997-$750
- Odyssey
300-Magnavox-n/a-n/a
- Odyssey
500-Magnavox-n/a-n/a
- DINA-n/a-n/a-n/a (This was
a Colecovision clone)
- Genesis 3-Majesco-n/a-$20
- Playstation(9000)-Sony-August
1999-$100
- Dreamcast-Sega-September
9,1999-$200
- Playstation 2-Sony-March 4,
2000-$600
- Xbox-Microsoft-?, 2001-$400
- GameCube-Nintendo-?, 2001-$200
- Xbox 2-Microsoft-?, 2005-?
- Playstation 3-Sony-?, 2005-?
- Nintendo 256-Nintendo-?, 2006-?
- Saturn
(Redesign)-Sega-n/a-n/a
- Atari Jr.-Atari-n/a-n/a