How old were you when you first heard the term, “Nintendo,” and what does the name mean to you now?

Answer 1

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I don't remember my exact age, but when I was little my Uncle had a Nintendo. He had the original Final Fantasy and I used to play it for hours when we visited their house. My parents wouldn't let me get one, assuming (correctly) that I would want to play video games and do little else.

I still love the fantasy genre, especially in video games. When I look at the incredible CG, graphics and complex story lines I have to marvel that something so simple as the original Final Fantasy kept me enthralled. I used to love playing Super Mario Bros. 3 with my best friend in junior high as well.

I suppose to me Nintendo means something long-lasting and fun. I have a Nintendo DS today, and I enjoy playing it even though I'm an adult now. I also have an original Nintendo 8-bit system that a friend gave me when he no longer wanted it, and it still works perfectly. I love how something that old can still work after all of these years.

(Oh, and I had the original "brick" Gameboy, a Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP, Gamecube and a Nintendo 64...haven't purchased a Wii yet but if there's an "Animal Crossing" or "Harvest Moon" I may not be able to resist.)

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Answer 2

I was 8 or so (this was in the mid 80s) and my uncle got me a little Game Boy. I fell in love with Mario right away. To me, Nintendo means childhood, relaxation and good, good times.

Answer 3

A few years ago. Absolutely nothing. :]

Answer 4

like 5 yrs old...and to mea it means somethingg you shouldn' play for too long and MARIO!!

Answer 5

i was 3 and it meant a lot of time spent sitting next to the tv

Answer 6

When i was 2 or 3. It means MARIO!! I still have my super nintendo with the original mario game.

Answer 7

I was probably 7 or 8(around 1998-99), and I knew it was the thing that I would play when I went to my rich cousins house for Thanksgiving.I first thought it was called "Intendo" though.

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Memory- I think

Answer 8

it brings wonderful memories of my childhood.
Nintendo and Mario were IT, the thing to have.

Now that i think about it, it makes me smiley and brings me back to happy times.

Answer 9

When i was little, the first console i ever saw in my house was my dad's, which was the sega saturn. I just watched like it was some kind of tv show, or some kind of adventure show. Then, i got the nintendo 64 and i couldn't pronounce it, let alone spell it (i was about... hmm... 4 or 5). Now, nintendo means alot in my life, creating games that aren't "too" violent, nor ones that make no sense. Most games now involve real life situations. Like Chibi-Robo for example, without the Chibi-Robo part. I prefer nintendo stick to puzzle games, though action can come in once in a while, but not all the time. The wii has been a great add-on to the nintendo series, but i have gotten bored with it very quickly. I use it occasionally, but i prefer to play online. It would be cool if we could team up online with a new pikmin game, or red steel to fight. Like i said, the wii turned alot of people down when they relized, that the xbox 360 and online pc games are more fun. Im not saying i hate nintendo, and i will still buy nintendo products though i don't use them, but it would be nice when you added WIFI to the nintendo DS. Like i said, when pokemon diamond and pearl comes out, everyone will be all over that due to wifi connections. The pokemon games are fun, but acually trading with someone in japan, other then the friends in school that make fun of you for playing pokemon is alot better to trade from different games. EX: such as trading diamond pokemon like Donkarasu (Japanese name for the evolution of Murkrow [yes there is a evolution to murkrow in the new games]) to pearl. Keep up the good work.

Answer 10

it means total awsomness!!! i love your work! i love zelda(which you made) if that is seriously you that is unbelievably great! wait till i tell my friend that your on yahoo answers!! my friends name is Sebastian Pineda, and it has been his dream to be in a nintendo game for a very long time! please put him in Super Smash Bros. Brawl or something! Please! please vote me as best answer people! oh yeah, you probably already know this, but the wii really lacks in storage space! im out of room for virtual console games!

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My wii, gamecube, n64, super NES, NES, and my library of virtual console games!

Answer 11

I was probably 5 or 6 at the time, and now it means innovation and quality in gaming.

Answer 12

I was about 5, and hooked on Goldeneye 64 and Cruisin' USA. Now it's just what you play when you're 5 and it's either another Mario or Pokemon game. So it means basically nothing to me now, and if you're over 11 and still playing, you need to grow one and drop a pair and get into the world.

Answer 13

Nintendo means fun and imagination. I was very young like 6 when I first heard it and my first system was a Super NES. I loved stanley cup hockey.

Answer 14

I believe I was four years old (1988) when I heard the word Nintendo. My Grandma had a Nintendo at her house, and I remember hearing the reference to the hype that enthralled my older siblings. Soon, my parents bought me a Nintendo.
I remember playing Mario, Duck Hunt, and BUBBLE BOBBLE(best game ever).
I think I played those three games for like 5 years (my parents were over spluring on video games). When SNES arrived, I developed my love for Zelda.
TO THIS DAY I play Zelda. I have Twilight Princess in my Wii, and often refer to playing Orcarina of Time while grounded in my early teens as "the best times of my life".

Answer 15

I remember playing Nintendo with my brother every chance we would get. It started when I was three, we would come home from soccer practice and as soon as we were done with our hoemwork it was time for "duck hunt." A lot of my favorite and earliest memories were of playing video games with him. Of course we would talk about random things, but it was a lot of fun to spend time with my older brother.
Not much has changed between us through the years. We have gotten older and moved out to our own places with careers and other things that occupy our time, but we still come back to NIntendo and video games as a place to bond with one another.
Last Christmas it was the same as when we were kids. Late Christmas eve we grabbed our new gaming systems and played a couple of rounds with our significant others. For me Nintendo symbolizes the begining of all those shared memories I have with my brother and my friends.

Answer 16

I was 6 years old when GameBoy was released, and I got one for Christmas that year... And it begun a lifelong obsession with video games, thanks Nintendo!
I don't have any Ninetendo system anymore other than a DS, but my 12 year old brother spends his every waking moment playing with his Wii...

Answer 17

I was probably 12 or so. Nintendo was (and is) unique, quirky, fun and innovative.

I want my Yahoo! on Nintendo Wii!!!

Answer 18

I was 8 years old, one morning about 18 years ago, and I came downstairs to find my dad playing this gaming system at 6:30 in the morning.

Apparently he had bought the Nintendofor himself months before and hid it from us, but when we caught him red-handed, he pretended as if he'd bought it for us.

Answer 19

I first heard "Nintendo" when I was around 4 years old (This was in 1995). There was a SNES in my daycare, and a few of my friends played it.

Nowadays, I still think of the Nintendo 64 game console when someone says "Nintendo".

Answer 20

Woa! Are you seriously the guy who made Zelda? I fell in love with Ocarina of time and have gone on to beat EVERY Zelda game, except for the three CD-I'S.

As for your question, I was maybe three or four (so like 13-14 years ago) and now to me it means:
beating my brothers while playing with the NES controller upside-down,
innovation,
a household name,
hours of intertainment,
classic music,
great characters,
Mario,
and the best for last, Link!

I really hope I get best answer because it's late and I have to work tomorrow and it's taking forever to type all this in on the Interet Trial Version on my Wii.
I've got some REAL different ideas for Zelda games!

also check out the music I made from Twilight Princess at
http://www.myspace.com/kriszeldamusic

Thanks!

-sirk

P.s. I LOVE the Wii!!!

Answer 21

I was 5 years old. My cousin had an NES, and on family visits, we would take turns playing Super Mario Bros. and Tetris. Later I had an NES in my home.

I think of Nintendo as what got me started with gaming and why I am still doing it today. I am 23 years old, and I just bought a Nintendo DS Lite, and I will buy a Wii when the product stock becomes stable

Answer 22

I was 7. To me it means that kids are fat and lazy now.

Answer 23

i was probably 4 or 5 and my first game was pokemon red for the game boy color and to me now it means innovation and great games especially zelda

Answer 24

5 Years old. Nintendo is still a big part of my heart, and to tell you the truth, I still sometimes love playing it more than I do all these new high tech games that have recently come about. Thanks.

Answer 25

6..... and it means a new world....a the age of six I thought my mom was calling me the wrong name...but she was actually saying that's a Nintendo I thought she was saying I was Nintendo ( I was kind of looking retarded).....oh I like that game when you shoot the ducks it felt like I had a real gun and being young at age...I really thought I was shooting real ducks on TV...........too bad the darn thing is now over 178587 years old...I think it was given to me from my ancestors.....but still I keep it in my room and every now and then me and my friends try to beat Mario all the time the dang game cheats though every time I go to jump over something I get Mario's balls stuck on a bad guy's head....

Answer 26

i was 16 and my friend has the NES and we played SM at her house

i was aware of donkey kong but not aware of nintendo name

i have a DS now, but prefer Sony PS consoles

Answer 27

I was young- it signified fun and games. now it signifies a toy that has become so popular that some people cannot afford it. I still like the old games though... My favorite being Super Mario Bros.

Back then it was just for fun- now some people do it as a job.. imagine that!

Answer 28

I was probably 9 or 10 when the original Nintendo came out. I remember getting it for christmas one year and my cousins and I playing it all day!! One of my cousins ended up getting sick after that because he was staring at the tv way too much. I remember having a lot of fun playing the game system...they do not make fun games for girls like they used to. Now it is all fighting and car racing. I liked the old game show games. It was a time where we had a lot of fun. We ended up getting rid of our original nintendo in order to get the newest systems...but my brother ended up getting an original nintendo back a couple of years ago. This is something we will keep and it still works.

Answer 29

I WAS NINE YEARS OLD,NOW THAT WORD MEANS NOTHING,SORRY!

Answer 30

I was about 11 or 12.... NINTENDO means big bucks for me on eBay.

Answer 31

i was introduced to the term "Nintendo" when i was 4 years old, which was 1987. my cousins loved Nintendo and let me play with them when they would babysit me. the name means alot to me. it means my childhood. i still have my super nintendo and game boy. i still prefer them to all the other high tech stuff that is out there now such as playstation and xbox. there's nothing like the original.