Super Mario
How Nintendo Conquered America
$34.89
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2012
Summary
In 1981, Nintendo of America was a one-year-old business already on the brink of failure. Its president, Mino Arakawa, was stuck with two thousand unsold arcade cabinets for a dud of a game (Radar Scope). So he hatched a plan.
Back in Japan, a boyish, shaggy-haired staff artist named Shigeru Miyamoto designed a new game for the unsold cabinets featur-ing an angry gorilla and a small jumping man. Donkey Kong brought in $180 million in its first year alone and launched the career of a s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781591845638 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1591845637 |
| Author: | Jeff Ryan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Portfolio |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 213mm x 139mm |
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About The Author
Jeff Ryan
Jeff Ryan, a lifelong gamer, has been featured on Salon.com and All Things Considered. He reviewed over 500 video games and covered four console launches as the games editor for Katrillion, a popular dotcom-era news and entertainment Web site. He lives in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
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