| This is Brawl in the Family's 400th comic, The History of Nintendo! Drawn, sung, and written by Matthew Taranto. Video edited by Sarah Williams (the soon-to-be Mrs. Taranto!) High-quality recording available for purchase here! brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com Dates used are generally referring to the US releases, although I did cheat a bit with Pokemon not being a Game Boy Color game...but hey, that's really what was carrying the handhelds at the time! Some requested the final(ish) panel as a high-quality image, so here it is: brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com ~FULL LYRICS:~ V1: Just sit back and relax, my friend. Today's lesson won't take too long. And to make it more interesting, It takes the form of this nerdy song. The year is 1889, Before the accolades and awards. Nintendo got its start From making hanafuda cards. V2: For a century, they grew and planned To discover just what sells. Making vacuums and Ultra Hand And love testers and love hotels. But they soon zeroed in on games Like the Game & Watch and Color TV. In '81, they made Donkey Kong, And the rest is history. (refrain) This is the history of Nintendo. Spanning the years, hanafuda to Mario... Straight from Kyoto, with a guy named Miyamoto, This is the history of Nintendo. V3: 1985: Future stars like Link and Samus, and portly plumbers hit the scene. '89: All our mothers took our Game Boys to play Tetris on that tiny screen. '91: Super Mario World taught us we could fly while riding dinosaurs. '94: Virtual Boy had us ... |
