The GaneBoy Advance nearly didn’t happen either. I used a prototype version of it over a year before it was released, when I was working at ARM. Nintendo had approached us about doing some next gen handhold tech. They’d just released the N64
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I had a Commodore 64 at the time and wrote my own games. Wasn’t remotely interested in Nintendo’s stuff.
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sometimes it feels like like a Commodore 64 was just this nifty little toy Brits and Europeans got to purchase as kids so that they could just be technologically and professionally competent for the rest of their lives
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I do wanna say that although the difference between a "home video game system" and a "microcomputer" existed before Nintendo, they really put up this impermeable wall between them, they established the modern idea of a "console" and made it a selling point you can't fuck with it
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The console landscape as it is today is a result of of Mr Yamauchi's personal aversion to tech, this culture he created of differentiating his stuff from the shit the computer geeks from California were doing by making it shiny and slick and unhackably opaque
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