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In the 1950s, a few short years after the most powerful weapon in the history of humanity obliterated & maimed lives by the hundreds of thousands, a little boy was born in a rural Japanese town. He would spend his time exploring the countryside, going on wondrous adventures https://t.co/g10Pv4QXMC
He initially wanted to get into comics as a manga artist, until he discovered Space Invaders 👾 - which inspired him to get into video games. He joined a small company that sold playing cards. You might’ve heard of them: they’re called Nintendo https://t.co/V530NvWNkx
Our boy Shigeru would help Nintendo with the art for their first arcade game, Sheriff, aka Bandido. Then they made Donkey Kong. Games like these quickly became popular worldwide, which made it clear that there would be a market for a video game system one could play at home https://t.co/Nu7dGbi5Nk
So they made the Nintendo Entertainment System. There’s a bunch of complicated specifics and a few different variants and stuff but that’s not really important. The important thing is that a games system needs games... https://t.co/TFdEBD2YYE
They made a really popular game about some plumber guy, and another about a bounty hunter girl in space, but I want to focus on yet another one of their classic hits: The Legend Of Zelda. It was directly influenced by the caves & wilderness Shigeru explored all those years ago https://t.co/19k036I5JX
The stock NES was technologically very limited in what it could do. But in this tiny amount of space  – with just a few colors and sounds – Miyamoto and his colleagues (particularly Koji Kondo, who wrote this beautiful music) created a tremendous gift to the human spirit https://t.co/scH1L2vmxP
25 years after the release of the original Zelda: here is an orchestra of professionals coming together to perform a triumphant celebration of human imagination. I found myself crying as I witnessed this, and I wrote this thread to share it with you. ❤️ https://t.co/nuRDabk20T https://t.co/BRVxm2FHtC
It all began with a curious boy wandering the woods and dozens of people who worked together to make a dream a reality and millions of people around the world who shared in that dream our best work is not behind us https://t.co/YD8pWl3Ef4
btw here's a thread about Sony, including how Nintendo's betrayal of Sony led to the Playstation https://t.co/sznAT2JW6E
1994 – 1995: The PlayStation is released. It becomes the first video game console to ship 100,000,000 units. It was made after Nintendo broke off an attempted Sony-Nintendo partnership, and there's some interesting drama and backstory there... https://t.co/Rirkze3CwN
