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| Radarscope - arcade game published by Nintendo |
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Radarscope is an arcade game published by
Nintendo in
1980. The game was quite popular in Japan, so the president of
newly-founded Nintendo of America
Minoru Arakawa chose it as the first arcade game Nintendo would
distribute in North America. However, American arcade operators were
unimpressed, and NOA was stuck with thousands of unsold units sitting in the
warehouse. Arakawa faced certain disaster, so he pleaded with his
father-in-law (Nintendo CEO
Hiroshi Yamauchi) to allow him to return the unsold inventory to Japan.
Instead, Yamauchi assigned inexperienced designer
Shigeru Miyamoto the task of "fixing" the game so it would appeal to
Americans. Rather than tweek a game he did not create for a consumer he did
not know, Miyamoto designed an entirely new game (Donkey Kong) using the
Radarscope hardware. Conversion kits for the new game were then shipped to
North America, where Donkey Kong went on to become a huge success. As a
result, Nintendo was firmly established as a powerhouse in the North
American video game market. |
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