5 Fun Nintendo Facts

Nintendo began as a Playing Card Company in 1889.

If you turn on your Nintendo DS system on your birthday, a special boot chime will play.

The Gamecube BIOS menu music is actually a rendition of Nintendo’s Japan-only Famicom Disk System startup music; just slowed down 18x.

America’s Super Nintendo has a two-tone purple ABXY button layout because Nintendo of America wanted the console’s look to target the older teen market; the rest of the world got multicolored ABXY buttons in Red/Green/Blue/Yellow colors.

Wii’s were meant to be produced with DVD playback functionality, but was cut at the last minute. This is likely due to the cost of licensing DVD technology increasing the cost to produce consoles.