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:) No [0]. Nintendo was incorporated in 1889 [1]. Here is an 1890 Nintendo commercial [2]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

:) No [0]. Nintendo was incorporated in 1889 [1]. Here is an 1890 Nintendo commercial [2]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuta#/media/File:NintendoCards.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuta#/media/File:NintendoCar...

toast0 2y ago
We don't usually call printed advertisements commercials. Commercial usual means an advertising in a radio or television setting. Even advertisements in a movie theater don't tend to be called commercials.
kristopolous 2y ago
The history of Nintendo as a board and card game company is extremely well known. Implicit here was English and television.
- Retric 2y ago
  Television or Radio sure, but I didn’t assume English.
  - 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
    There is a Color TV-Game commercial supposedly from 1977 (not totally clear whether this is the year of the ad itself or the year of the product launch) [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VmwNej8noQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VmwNej8noQ
    - kristopolous 2y ago
      I think a good argument can be made for 1977 or 1978 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_TV-Game https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_TV-Game They came out with a 3rd machine in June of 1978. The commercial features the first two machines. There's many plausible reasons for this including, most prominently, that the third might not have been released yet. Certainly not definitive but likely