Nintendo Research & Development 3: Difference between revisions

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| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Z80 arcade hardware|Arcade]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Z80 arcade hardware|Arcade]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Switch: May 15, 2008
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Emulated on [[Nintendo Switch|Switch]] as part of the [[Hamster]] [[Arcade Archives]] series.
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| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Super Punch-Out!!]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Super Punch-Out!!]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Z80 arcade hardware|Arcade]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Z80 arcade hardware|Arcade]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not added yet.
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1985
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1985
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Z80 arcade hardware|Arcade]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Z80 arcade hardware|Arcade]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not added yet.
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Punch-Out!! (Nintendo Entertainment System)|Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Punch-Out!! (Nintendo Entertainment System)|Punch-Out!!]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1987 <br /> 2002 <br /> 2015
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1987
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] <br /> [[GameCube]] <br /> [[NES Classic Edition|NES&nbsp;Classic&nbsp;Edition]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Tyson [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]: February 6, 2000 <br /> [[GameCube]]: January 20, 2003 <br /> [[NES Classic Edition]]: June 22, 2017
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Mike Tyson was replaced with the fictional Mr. Dream after Nintendo's license to use Tyson expired in 1990.
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Mike Tyson was replaced with the fictional Mr. Dream after Nintendo's license to use Tyson expired in 1990. <br /> ''[[Punch-Out!! (Nintendo Entertainment System)|Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream]]'' was emulated on ''[[Animal Crossing (video game)|Animal Crossing]]'' for [[GameCube]] in 2002. <br /> ''[[Punch-Out!! (Nintendo Entertainment System)|Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream]]'' was emulated on the [[NES Classic Edition]] in 2015.
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| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[StarTropics]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[StarTropics]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990 <br /> 2016
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] <br /> [[NES Classic Edition]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[NES Classic Edition]]: June 22, 2017
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[StarTropics]]'' was emulated on the [[NES Classic Edition]] in 2016.
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| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994 <br /> 2016
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] <br /> [[Wii U]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[NES Classic Edition]]: June 22, 2017
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II]] was emulated on the [[Wii U]] in 2016.
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| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Pilotwings 64]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Pilotwings 64]]''
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64]]
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not yet.
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="background-color:#ffffff; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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!| Title
!| Released
!| Released
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!| Notes
!| Notes
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | January 20, 2018
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[GameCube]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[GameCube]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | January 8, 2018
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | First Nintendo console to use optical disc media, which was a proprietary mini DVD format with a total capacity of 1.5 gigabytes.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | First Nintendo console to use optical disc media, which was a proprietary mini DVD format with a total capacity of 1.5 gigabytes.  
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!| Notes
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Pocket]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Pocket]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not Added Yet
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A ligher and smaller [[Game Boy]] that required less batteries.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A ligher and smaller [[Game Boy]] that required less batteries.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Light]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Light]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not Added Yet
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Slightly larger than the [[Game Boy Pocket]], and includes an electroluminescent backlight.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Slightly larger than the [[Game Boy Pocket]], and includes an electroluminescent backlight.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Color]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Color]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not Added Yet
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Slightly larger and thicker than the [[Game Boy Pocket]], and includes a color screen.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Slightly larger and thicker than the [[Game Boy Pocket]], and includes a color screen.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Advance]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Advance]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | September 18, 2017
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Successor to the [[Game Boy Color]], with a 32-bit processor, a horizontal layout with a color screen, two face buttons, start and select buttons, and two shoulder buttons.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Successor to the [[Game Boy Color]], with a 32-bit processor, a horizontal layout with a color screen, two face buttons, start and select buttons, and two shoulder buttons.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Advance SP]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Advance SP]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2003
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2003
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not Added Yet
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | An updated version of the [[Game Boy Advance]], wherein SP stands for special, with a rectangular layout and a clamshell case.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | An updated version of the [[Game Boy Advance]], wherein SP stands for special, with a rectangular layout and a clamshell case.
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!| Title
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!| Released
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!| Notes
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Pak]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Pak]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983-2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983-2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | December 25, 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Nintendo cartridges from the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Famicom]] to the [[Game Boy Advance|GBA]]. Coined by Nintendo advertisment executive [[Gail Tilden]], in order to distance it from the game cartridges of [[Atari, S.A.|Atari]], so that people wouldn't be reminded of the [[video game crash of 1983]].  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Nintendo cartridges from the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Famicom]] to the [[Game Boy Advance|GBA]]. Coined by Nintendo advertisment executive [[Gail Tilden]], in order to distance it from the game cartridges of [[Atari, S.A.|Atari]], so that people wouldn't be reminded of the [[video game crash of 1983]].  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Camera]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Camera]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not Added Yet
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Camera for the [[Game Boy]].
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Camera for the [[Game Boy]].
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Printer]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Printer]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not Added Yet
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Printer for the [[Game Boy]].
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Printer for the [[Game Boy]].
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Controller Pack]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Controller Pack]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not Added Yet
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Memory card for Nintendo 64.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Memory card for Nintendo 64.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Transfer Pack]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Transfer Pack]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not Added Yet
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64]] peripheral that allows transfer of data between N64 games and [[Game Boy]] or [[Game Boy Color]] games.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64]] peripheral that allows transfer of data between N64 games and [[Game Boy]] or [[Game Boy Color]] games.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rumble Pak]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rumble Pak]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1996
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not Added Yet
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64]] peripheral that provides [[force feedback]] via the controller while playing games.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64]] peripheral that provides [[force feedback]] via the controller while playing games.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Expansion Pak]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Expansion Pak]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | January 20, 2018
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 4 megabytes of random access memory expansion for [[Nintendo 64]] which increases the console's total RAM from 4MB to 8MB.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 4 megabytes of random access memory expansion for [[Nintendo 64]] which increases the console's total RAM from 4MB to 8MB.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64DD]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 64DD]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1999
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1999
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not yet.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Drive that reads magnetic disks on the [[Nintendo 64]], with a total capacity of 64 megabytes, which was released only in Japan.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Drive that reads magnetic disks on the [[Nintendo 64]], with a total capacity of 64 megabytes, which was released only in Japan.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[GameCube controllers|Gamecube controller]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[GameCube controller]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | January 20, 2018
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A wired controller for the [[GameCube]].
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A wired controller for the [[GameCube]].
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[GameCube memory cards|Memory Card 59]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Memory Card 59]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2001
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | January 20, 2018
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | The standard 4 megabit [[GameCube]] memory card.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | The standard 4 megabit [[GameCube]] memory card.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo e-Reader]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo e-Reader]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | September 18, 2017
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A device for [[Game Boy Advance]] which would scan cards with dotcodes to load games and add-ons for games.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A device for [[Game Boy Advance]] which would scan cards with dotcodes to load games and add-ons for games.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[GameCube memory cards|Memory Card 251]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Memory Card 251]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not added yet.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A larger 16 megabit [[GameCube]] memory card.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A larger 16 megabit [[GameCube]] memory card.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[GameCube controllers|Wavebird wireless controller]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Wavebird wireless controller]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not added yet.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A radio frequency-based wireless controller for the [[GameCube]].
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A radio frequency-based wireless controller for the [[GameCube]].
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[GameCube memory cards|Memory Card 1019]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Memory Card 1019]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Not added yet.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A larger 64 megabit [[GameCube]] memory card.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A larger 64 megabit [[GameCube]] memory card.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Player]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Game Boy Player]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2002
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | December 22, 2017
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A peripheral for [[GameCube]] that plays [[Game Boy]], [[Game Boy Color]], and [[Game Boy Advance]] games.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | A peripheral for [[GameCube]] that plays [[Game Boy]], [[Game Boy Color]], and [[Game Boy Advance]] games.
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Revision as of 05:49, 30 May 2024

Nintendo rd3 logo.png
Nintendo Research & Development 3
Type Division of Nintendo
Founded 1974
Headquarters Kyoto, Japan
Key people Genyo Takeda, manager (1972 - 2003)
Industry Video games
Products Video game consoles, hardware, games
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Nintendo Research & Development 3 (任天堂開発第三部, Nintendō Kaihatsu Daisan Bu, R&D3) was the third video game development group within Nintendo. This development group focused primarily on the development of video game hardware, however it did develop some software as well. It was managed by Genyo Takeda from its creation in 1974 until Nintendo's internal development groups were restructured by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in 2003.

Formation of Nintendo Research & Development 3

In 1972, Genyo Takeda joined Nintendo, working at Nintendo Research & Development with Gunpei Yokoi and Masayuki Uemura on Nintendo's arcade system that utilized light guns, the Simulation System. Later that year, when additional R&D divisions were created after the success of the Simulation System, Gunpei Yokoi continued on as the manager of R&D1 and Masayuki Uemura became the manager of R&D 2. Genyo Takeda became the manager of R&D3 upon its formation in 1974.

Restructuring of Nintendo's development groups

In 2003, Nintendo Research & Development 3 was split, forming Nintendo Integrated Research & Development (IRD) and Nintendo Research & Engineering Development (RED). Genyo Takeda became the general manager of Nintendo IRD, while Satoru Okada became the general manager of Nintendo RED.

Video games by Nintendo Research & Development 3

Title Platform Released Notes
Punch-Out!! 1983 Arcade
Super Punch-Out!! 1984 Arcade
Arm Wrestling 1985 Arcade
Punch-Out!! 1987 NES Mike Tyson was replaced with the fictional Mr. Dream after Nintendo's license to use Tyson expired in 1990.
StarTropics 1990 NES
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II 1994 NES
Pilotwings 64 1996 Nintendo 64

Home video game consoles by Nintendo Research & Development 3

Title Released Notes
Nintendo 64 1996
GameCube 2001 First Nintendo console to use optical disc media, which was a proprietary mini DVD format with a total capacity of 1.5 gigabytes.

Handheld video game consoles by Nintendo Research & Development 3

Title Released Notes
Game Boy Pocket 1996 A ligher and smaller Game Boy that required less batteries.
Game Boy Light 1998 Slightly larger than the Game Boy Pocket, and includes an electroluminescent backlight.
Game Boy Color 1998 Slightly larger and thicker than the Game Boy Pocket, and includes a color screen.
Game Boy Advance 2001 Successor to the Game Boy Color, with a 32-bit processor, a horizontal layout with a color screen, two face buttons, start and select buttons, and two shoulder buttons.
Game Boy Advance SP 2003 An updated version of the Game Boy Advance, wherein SP stands for special, with a rectangular layout and a clamshell case.

Video game peripherals by Nintendo Integrated Research & Development

Title Released Notes
Game Pak 1983-2001 Nintendo cartridges from the Famicom to the GBA. Coined by Nintendo advertisment executive Gail Tilden, in order to distance it from the game cartridges of Atari, so that people wouldn't be reminded of the video game crash of 1983.
Game Boy Camera 1996 Camera for the Game Boy.
Game Boy Printer 1996 Printer for the Game Boy.
Controller Pack 1996 Memory card for Nintendo 64.
Transfer Pack 1996 Nintendo 64 peripheral that allows transfer of data between N64 games and Game Boy or Game Boy Color games.
Rumble Pak 1996 Nintendo 64 peripheral that provides force feedback via the controller while playing games.
Expansion Pak 1998 4 megabytes of random access memory expansion for Nintendo 64 which increases the console's total RAM from 4MB to 8MB.
Nintendo 64DD 1999 Drive that reads magnetic disks on the Nintendo 64, with a total capacity of 64 megabytes, which was released only in Japan.
GameCube controller 2001 A wired controller for the GameCube.
Memory Card 59 2001 The standard 4 megabit GameCube memory card.
Nintendo e-Reader 2002 A device for Game Boy Advance which would scan cards with dotcodes to load games and add-ons for games.
Memory Card 251 2002 A larger 16 megabit GameCube memory card.
Wavebird wireless controller 2002 A radio frequency-based wireless controller for the GameCube.
Memory Card 1019 2002 A larger 64 megabit GameCube memory card.
Game Boy Player 2002 A peripheral for GameCube that plays Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games.