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Once a week, let's dig up an old bit of news and see what became of it. Today we've got Nintendo in 1987 predicting that the Zelda NES "game pak" will be huge. Bold words, Nintendo. It's May of 1987, the year after Nintendo started selling the Nintendo Entertainment System in America. Super Mario Brothers has been a success and the industry, which in 2009, can have more than a million consoles sell in the U.
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”The industry is healthy; we estimate that 4.5 million home video game units will be sold in the U.S. in 1987, as compared to 1.4 million units in 1986 — a 300 percent increase. Among the game pak introductions will be ‘The Legend o... Read Post

Zeldas! Marios! Yoshi! Metroid! Nintendo has confirmed the full line-up of free NES games for the 3DS Ambassador Programme. The 10 games offer some of Nintendo's biggest franchises, including two Zelda and two Mario titles. Newly co... Read Post

This week, starting September 1, early Nintendo 3DS adopters will be to download classic NES games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda for free—as long as they hopped on the Nintendo eShop in time and achieved "Nintendo 3... Read Post