Nintendo TV-Game 6 [HISTORY]
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Discover the fascinating history behind Nintendo's first video game console, the TV-Game 6!
In 1969, Nintendo reorganized into three departments, with Department 3 dedicated to toys and games research and development led by Hiroshi Imanishi. Gunpei Yokoi was the first hire for this new division.
The Nintendo Games Research Division developed Nintendo's first electronic toy, the Love Tester, designed by Yokoi. In 1971 they hired Masayuki Uemura from Sharp to help incorporate their semiconductor technology.
Uemura and Yokoi's first collaboration was the light gun game Kōsenjū SP in 1971. These light gun games became popular in arcades and reinvented bowling alleys. Nintendo also helped develop the light gun for the Magnavox Odyssey console.
In 1973, Nintendo opened laser clay shooting ranges but closed them during the Oil Crisis. They refocused on traditional arcade games, publishing some through SEGA.
In 1975 Nintendo released EVR Race, their first "video game". Using EVR discs, it showed randomly selected horse or car races for players to bet on. However, the technology was unreliable. That same year they helped launch the Magnavox Odyssey in Japan.
Their first home console was 1976's TV Game 6 in partnership with Mitsubishi after Systech backed out. It included three Pong variations as Nintendo's first steps in the emerging console market. An upgraded TV Game 15 followed.
Nintendo continued experimenting with electronics, guided by the research division led by Yokoi and pioneers like Uemura. This laid the foundation for Nintendo to become a leader in the video game industry with hit franchises still enjoyed today.
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Shoshinkai 1995, Nintendo President Yamauchi's opening remarks
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Gunpei Yokoi at E3 1995
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• Gunpei Yokoi at E3 1995
NINTENDO rare product "Love Tester" (1968) TV commercial and more
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Sharp Calculator Commercial #2 (1970s)
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Masayuki Uemura speaking in 2020, Lead architect of the NES & SNES)
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Reminds me of my gaming youth, my dad worked at a cash and carry, and every year in September there would be a toy fair to encourage smaller shops to test out that years new toys, he "borrowed" the first home Pong game console for the weekend, so me and my brother where probably the first kids to a video game on the TV in Scotland that year.
Fascinating and well narrated story! You’ve dug up some very interesting pre-video game products here, I knew about the TV Game 6 but not all of the electromechanical toys. I enjoyed this a lot.
Awesome documentary , underrated channel
The Companion looks cool like a phone but a Walkie Talkie! Wonder if they ever used them in them old school futuristic movies back in the day? Fun to hear TV-Game 6 was always a two player game! Back then they promoted game systems as a way to get family members together. I feel even the Famicom was a system you needed more than one player because if you played it too much alone it would frustrate you, but taking turns made it way funner to see if you could make it farther then your buddies! Thanks for the Retro History Break!
Very cool! I don't think I've ever seen the TV Game 6 in motion outside of a brief clip in the Pong Consoles episode of AVGN.
One of my favourite aspects of WarioWare Gold! (a fantastic game in many respects) is that it has a built in Museum that covers a lot of the devices you've talked about here throughout Nintendo's history (the gunman toy, etc), but also the toys like their Lego-like Nintendo blocks, the Ultra Hand, the Lefty remote control car that only turns left, etc.
Gotta give you props for the production here. I'm familiar with a lot of this history from Jeremy Parish's content, but I like the pseudo-documentary approach you took with the timeline and such.
The "6" is certainly misleading though, haha. I played through the Atari 50th Anniversary Celebration last year and it's funny how many of the included box/manual scans boast how many "games" each cart contains when most of them are light variants on each other and then the two player variants of each.
Your history videos are so well made. Really enjoyed this.
I never knew about these systems. Awesome and informative video!
I love learning about this stuff from you; you do such a good job on these history videos
Such fantastic brief on such important and lesser known part of Nintendo history. Thanks
This was super interesting!!! I knew about some of the early history or Nintendo video games but did not know they had so many before the NES
Love your videos, our organization is producing a console right now and we're looking forward to sending you a prototype soon.
Send me an email and we can sort something out :)
What a great video! I'm so glad I saved if for when I needed it most this week. Put me in such a great mood.
Great reporting, looking forward to this series
Really well informative video!
I heard you talk about this video on the Quintet Project podcast and some of your frustrations with youtube, but I hope you continue to make some of these history videos! Very well done
Thanks for checking the video out! Glad you enjoyed it! I hope the algorithm finds it one day! :D
great vid!!
Really cool thank you
Great video! :D
Very cool - subbed!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! :D
TV Game 6 is still great. You can still find them easily at used shops throughout Japan which shows how well they were constructed compared to others that were sold here at the same time.
Awesome! Is the 15 and other TV games as easy to find? I'm going to Japan later this year and would love to pick one up!
The 6 is much easier to find. For these machines it is not too tough to find them in Akihabara but pricy. Depending on where you go, look up every "Surugaya" and "Hard Off" stores you can find along your route. The "retro" and "junk" sections of these stores should be checked along with the normal game sections.@@RetroBreak
Cool stuff
Strange : I have seen this video through your community post and not in the regular new video section of YT
For some reason RUclips isn’t showing this video to anyone :( it’s my worst performing video in a long time, which is very sad as I put a lot of time into this one.. Hope you enjoyed it!
I did @@RetroBreak
Ah, a common understanding, but perhaps incorrect. According to Wiki Japan, TV Game 15 was Nintendo’s first console. As you note: TV Game 6 was only a TV Game 15 with 9 games blocked off. According to my Japanese friend, 6 and 15 were released on the same day, not weeks apart. He claims his father brought home both a 6 and a 15 on launch day (they were wealthy). 15 was quickly discontinued (it was too expensive) and was later re-released with a different serial number on the box. TV game 15, with the initial launch day serial number/box, is very rare, because of it being quickly discontinued. So the real question here: why do you think the 15 was launched some weeks after the 6? Maybe your source is correct and my friend misremembers. But it makes more sense that Nintendo would offer two choices on launch day.
Cool to hear from someone who has first hand experience with these systems! I got the release date inform from computinghistory.org, they said this:
"Nintendo released the Color TV Game 15 on 8th June 1977, just a week after the TV Game 6."
@@RetroBreak That evidence sounds pretty definitive. I’ll ask my friend if he’s certain his father brought home both consoles on the same day. After all, it was 45 years ago! Still, given the close proximity of release, and given that the 6 is a 15 with 9 games blocked off, might that suggest that the 15 is arguably the first Nintendo console? An interesting question that I’ve never heard debated before.
From a Nintendo representative, in an interview:
Uemura
Yeah. (laughs) But there really wasn't anything to do! I even wondered if Yamauchi-san had called me out of consideration for that. He said the next thing would be video games for play on home television sets and asked if my department would develop them. But such games had been around for awhile.
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Even Nintendo had released TV Game 6 and TV Game 15 [4] which had built-in games rather than external cartridges.
4. Color TV Game 6 and Color TV Game 15: Released in Japan in July 1977. The consoles held, respectively, 6 and 15 games such as tennis or table tennis.
(So I wonder about that June 8 date).
@@RetroBreak I see it widely reported that TV Game 15 came out on June 8, though there are many mistakes out there-some even saying that 15 came out in 1978. Some confusion because there are both orange and red versions of 15, with the orange being the older and rarer one.
@@mrmojorisin8752 I just checked the Geeksline NES Anthology, that has a table with all the TV game consoles, and that also has the same separate release dates, so I’m not sure where they were getting their info from.. it’s certainly interesting, and it would make sense for them to both release at the same time