When The Nintendo Playing Card Co. began in Kyoto, Japan in 1889, it’s safe to say that nobody could fathom the company would consistently develop some of the most innovative technology ever seen.  Nintendo began their career by selling hanafuda cards, a popular playing card that is actually featured as a reward for Club Nintendo participants.

120 years later and over two decades of being a leader in gaming, we shall take this day to salute Nintendo.  To 120 more years!

GoNintendo

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It’s official! Game Boy is out of it’s teens and 20 years old (and 2 days to be exact). I know this is old news now, but the birthday totally snuck up on me this year. In order to celebrate (and stay out of the dog house), I created this commemorative Tetris themed glass to bring to the party. Because, surely the Game Boy wouldn’t have reached such heights without the timeless puzzler.

Just think, in another year the Game Boy will move the move out of Jimmy’s grubby hands in the back seat of the minivan and into the bars! Watch out! There are bigger photos of the glass on my etsy page.

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There have been some amazing, edible creations that we’ve posted on this site, but this one takes the cake. Hannah couldn’t make up her mind as to the cake she wanted for her fourth birthday, so her parents played through Super Mario Galaxy with her to make the Galaxy cake all the more convincing. Several concept designs later, this beauty was ready to be cut up and eaten.

And just when you thought the cake looked complex enough, the masterpiece you see before you is loaded with Rice Krispes Treats, electrical wiring, motors, mp3 players, a heavy wooden frame, fiber optic lights, you name it… all for the most magical undertaking I’ve seen for anything intended to be gobbled up. I think I might just cry… both at the sheer beauty of the video footage after the break, and knowing where the remains of the cake now rest…

I’m pretty sure Hannah had a better fourth birthday cake than all of us. Read on for that video as well as some additional photos. NOW.

Be sure to head over and read all about Will and Liliana (Hannah’s parents) getting Hannah to want the Mario cake, planning and sketching out the cake, to finally constructing it over at their personal web site.

Hannah’s Super Mario Galaxy Cake
via Kotaku

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What a big month for console birthdays. First the Wii and now the DS. Four years ago today, the Nintendo DS was launched in North America. Since then, it has worked with it’s big brother, the Wii, to bring the gaming industry to a whole new level.

It’s true that the Wii is a huge force in opening gaming up to a larger audience, but it’s continuing the work that was started by the DS. Games like Brain Age, combined with an easy-to-use touch screen interface and a sleek iPod-like look, began the movement to bring gaming to the mainstream.

So happy birthday, DS. I bought you when you were still phat, and I love you even more now that you’ve lost the weight. I will keep you at my side forever. Or at least until the DS2.

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It’s time to put on your sexy Marilyn Monroe costume and prep those vocal cords, because on this day in 2006, the eagerly-anticipated Nintendo Wii first hit store shelves. (Incidentally, it hadn’t been seen there again until earlier this month.) 

The Wii has been responsible for bringing gaming more into the mainstream than ever before, and will certainly go down in history as one of the most important video game consoles ever made. Much like its great, great grandfather, the NES.

So happy birthday to you, Wii. It’s been an amazing first two years. There’s little doubt that you’ve changed gaming forever, and I’m looking foward to seeing what’s next.

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