The Nintendo is 20 years old today.

It’s still wild to me that it released two weeks earlier in the US, compared to Japan.

In Europe, we would have to wait till March to get the system, which is why this launch edition is from March 2005.

Feature titled: Touch the Future.
Taken from Nintendo Official Magazine 151 - March Special Edition 2005 (UK)

This issue can be found here in full:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/nintendoofficialmagazine.html

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Feature titled: Touch the Future. Taken from Nintendo Official Magazine 151 - March Special Edition 2005 (UK)
Feature titled: Touch the Future. Taken from Nintendo Official Magazine 151 - March Special Edition 2005 (UK)
Feature titled: Touch the Future. Taken from Nintendo Official Magazine 151 - March Special Edition 2005 (UK)

    • Out of Print Archive
      OP
      1•13 days ago

      @[email protected]

      I’ll gladly agree with that, despite the little voice in the back of my mind whispering “Sega Saturn”… 😄

      And now you got me dreaming…

      A Switch 2, double screen, clamshell design.
      Fully backwards compatible with the Switch, Nintendo DS and 3DS… 🥶

      • Scribblemacher
        1•13 days ago

        @[email protected] @[email protected] it was such a simple thing, but touch input and two screens solved so many problems games have with UI and let us do a lot of cool stuff. And unlike the Switch, it still fit in a pocket!

        I still regularly play my DSi (in fact, I ran through a grotto in DQIX this morning). It was such nice hardware, but games still had many design features of earlier handhelds (brevity, bigger UI elements, etc).