was the Panasonic Q, but that wasn't right either, that was a Gamecube that could also read DVDs, so that wasn't right either. I don't think there really was one and I was fed false information. I'm sorry everyone on leading you astray from Nintendo's real line-up. However, I might add, the systems named here *were* only released in Japan. So I sort of was teaching you still.

Around 2000, Nintendo made a flop in virtual reality. Their console was called the Virtual Boy. It had about ten games but was discontinued after they found nothing was selling. That era' went for about five months

In 2001 the Game Cube was released, it had even better graphics, and it was, in America and England, and everywhere else, the first console that played discs. It had pretty disappointing games. In Zelda, it was the cell-shading in "The Wind Waker". In Mario, it was something in "Super Mario Sunshine", which was about it. All the rest of the games were pretty good.

In 2007, the Wii came out. It originally was called the "GameCube 2", then it switched to "Revolution", then it finally came to "Wii". The Wii is still in product so there are more games in production.

Handhelds.

In 1989 the GameBoy was made. It was preceded by the GameBoy Color in 1998. Then the GameBoy got a whole new look on the GameBoy Advanced in 2001. It had a better successor because of the backlight screen; the GameBoy SP was out in 2003. And that succeeder was not as well-known - the GameBoy Micro. It was out in 2005. It was the last GameBoy line.

The Nintendo DS aka NDS or DS was next in 2004 and was featured in red, blue, titanium, and more. The DS lite came in more colors such as onyx, red and black, pink, white, gold, and more. It was more compact and was built a little different. For one, the start and select button places were different and the shell was different shape. In 2009 the DSi came out. It had no GBA slot for the downside and had only 14 hours of battery life. Those were the downsides. The upsides were that it had a better menu, it was slimmer longer and more sleek and it had two cameras. The DSi was the first game console to ever have a built in camera, let alone two. The only thing to come close was the eye-toy for the SONY PlayStation 2, but that was a plug in camera. In Japan the starting colors were Onyx and white, but in the USA they were Onyx and blue, the very first Nintendo console to ever be a different starting color from the starting colors in Japan.

Also, in the Mariners Stadium, Safeco Field, you can pay five dollars for a thing that gives you stats of the players, shows replays/highlights of the game and calls for food and drink, and also a lot more. For more info Ask (or Google) "Nintendo DS Safeco field".

Slogans.

Nintendo has had a couple different slogans, here is a couple.

"Now you're playing with power" an exception was "... Portable power" for the Game Boy and "...Super power" for the NES and SNES
"Have you had your fun today?"
"The best play here!"
"Play it loud"
"Get N (64)* or get out" * note the (64) wasn't there, I just added it, however the N was the N64's N
"Too much fun"
"Touching is good" (DS)
Wii would like to play". You probably know this one.

And What will you and i do? I think you know this one.

And to finally say, Nintendo's future is not for me to say. Does it look like I have a time machine in my back yard? I don't think so. However, I bet that they will make a console with a camera. (Not the DSi, a Wii or something with a camera)

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