The History of Nintendo - Brawl in the Family

This is Brawl in the Family's 400th comic, The History of Nintendo! Drawn, sung, and written by Matthew Taranto. Video edited by Sarah Williams (the soon-to-be Mrs. Taranto!)

High-quality recording available for purchase here! http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/...

Dates used are generally referring to the US releases, although I did cheat a bit with Pokemon not being a Game Boy Color game...but hey, that's really what was carrying the handhelds at the time!

Some requested the final(ish) panel as a high-quality image, so here it is:
http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/...


~FULL LYRICS:~

V1:
Just sit back and relax, my friend.
Today's lesson won't take too long.
And to make it more interesting,
It takes the form of this nerdy song.

The year is 1889,
Before the accolades and awards.
Nintendo got its start
From making hanafuda cards.

V2:
For a century, they grew and planned
To discover just what sells.
Making vacuums and Ultra Hand
And love testers and love hotels.

But they soon zeroed in on games
Like the Game & Watch and Color TV.
In '81, they made Donkey Kong,
And the rest is history.

(refrain)
This is the history of Nintendo.
Spanning the years, hanafuda to Mario...
Straight from Kyoto, with a guy named Miyamoto,
This is the history of Nintendo.

V3:
1985: Future stars like Link and Samus, and portly plumbers hit the scene.
'89: All our mothers took our Game Boys to play Tetris on that tiny screen.
'91: Super Mario World taught us we could fly while riding dinosaurs.
'94: Virtual Boy had us seeing red, returning systems to their stores.

(bridge)

'96: Let's-a go with Mario to new horizons...
'98: Pokémania caught our hearts and dollars too.
2001: The GBA and GameCube lost some marketshare that day.
But we still loved to play Smash Bros. Melee...!

(refrain)
So goes the history of Nintendo.
From Ana to Kat, Pikachu to Lucario.
A fierce crescendo peppered with strange innuendo,
This is the history of Nintendo.

2004, the DS.
2006, the Wii.
2011, the 3DS, a DS in 3D.
2012, the Wii U, out by this year's end,
And so my friend, well now you know the history of Nintend...o.

(coda)
Hanafuda, Ultra Hand, Sheriff, Kirby's Pinball Land,
Wild Gunman, Superman(?), Mario Land, Jam With the Band,
Mega Man 1 through Mega Man 7, DK '94 and Rhythm Heaven,
Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10, Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, Talespin,
Dragon Quest, Diddy's Quest, Simon's Quest, Gargoyle's Quest,
Master Quest, Mystic Quest, Puzzle Quest, Fester's Quest,
Yamauchi, Miyamoto, Iwata, Sakurai, Sakamoto,
Tezuka, Totaka, Itoi, Arakawa, Kondo, Yokoi,
Ocarina of Time, Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Majora's Mask,
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Pokémon Blue and Killer Instinct,
Little King's Story, Epic Yarn, Actraiser, Terranigma, Illusion of Gaia, Soul Blazer,
Final Fantasy, Super Metroid, Cool Spot, MC Kids, and Yo Noid!,
Mega Man X, The Thousand-Year Door, Punch-Out!!, Resident Evil 4,
F-Zero, Hey You, Pikachu!, Viewtiful Joe and Lufia 2,
Kid Icarus: Uprising, Zelda 1, Golden Coins, GoldenEye, Golden Sun,
Mother, EarthBound, Mother 3, Brawl in the Family!

This is the history of Nintendo!
From Nester to Ness, Waluigi to Wario.
Soon to be taught in schools all over Tokyo,
To solve the mysteries of Nintendo...
This was the history of Nintendo!

• Category

  Gaming

[LetsPlayGamezTime]

2013 - EarthBound for Wii U Virtual Console

[Ember FireMage]

Twilight Princess - 2006?

Phantom Hourglass - 2007

Spirit Tracks - 2009

Most definitely not 5-6 years. Except in the case of Link's Awakening to Ocarina of Time.

[TheNegaVictini]

You can't say Xbox is better because it has Call of Duty because,hmmm lemme think...MW3,And Black Ops 1 were on the Wii and Black Ops 2 is on the Wii U.And The Wii U has Zombie U,witch is exclusive to it.

[Butch o fthe Jhoto Akatsuki]

harmoknight?



[Butch o fthe Jhoto Akatsuki]

give me 10 good xbox 360 exclusive games, cause there arent even that many

[Bradley Qin]

Please nintendo, bring a new mother game, im dying here.

[Chaletica]

Actually recently, they do! They now have this system where the employees can come up with their own ideas, and if they get enough people to work with them on that, they can make that game along with Pokémon. The first game that was made this was was Harmoknight for 3DS.

[jaimexdxd]

I've hear this like 9000 times, and I just noticed Totaka's song, what a nice little touch!

[OwnedByMcRony]

Does gamefreak make other games than pokemon anymore

[Burrit0burger]

If you are trying to poke fun at the games that come out for Xbox and PS3, I'd like to stop you right there. People claim that some games are bad because of the people that play it. For example, Call of Duty would probably not be frowned upon so much if 75% of the fanbase wasn't vulgar 9-year-olds who think that they're better than everybody else. After all, Borderlands, one of my most favorite games, came out for both of those consoles. And that's just one example.

[Magiphart]

That had the same ending message as It's Gotta Be the Insanity.