Nintendo's first US commercial might be this 1980 ad [Verge, The]
NINTENDO CO LTD UNSP/ADR (NTDOY)
NASDAQ:AMEX Investor Relations:
nintendo.co.jp/ir/en
Company Research
Source: Verge, The
Nintendo is a gaming juggernaut today, but it wasn't really on anyone's radar in the United States in 1980. And what was possibly the first US commercial for hardware produced by the company — a handheld called Toss-Up , from its “Game & Watch” series — certainly didn't help, as a newly-restored copy shows. That's because there's no mention of Nintendo at all, or even Game & Watch. Game & Watch games were simplistic standalone handheld LCD games not unlike the cheap licensed Tiger Electronics games seemingly every kid had in the 1990s. And in the US, those games were initially licensed to a company called Mego (pronounced “mee-go”), and sold as a series called “Time-Out” instead, according to The Video Game History Foundation in a blog post Time Extension spotted The ad was dated June 25th, 1980 — only “a couple of months after Nintendo of America was incorporated,” Gaming historian Chris Kohler, who found the 16mm reel containing the ad on eBay, told the foundation. The hardware
Show less
Read more
Impact Snapshot
Event Time:
NTDOY
Last Price
Price Change
Price Change%
Volume Shares
Max Up
Max Down
%
Volume Ratio
Performance Comparison
Updated
|
Event Day
Stock performance from the time of news release until the following 4pm ET market close
|
Last price at news event
|
Since Event
Multi-day stock performance from the time of the news release
|
|---|---|---|
|
EVENT DAY
Stock performance from the time of news release until the following 4pm ET market close
|
LAST
PRICE AT NEWS EVENT |
SINCE EVENT
Multi-day stock performance from the time of the news release
|
| Last Price | ||
| VWAP | ||
|
High:
|
Max Up |
High:
|
|
Low:
|
Max Down |
Low:
|
|
%
|
Post news range |
%
|
|
|
Price change |
|
|
|
Price Change Percentage |
|
|
|
S&P 500 (SPX) |
|
|
%
|
Volume ratio |
%
|
| Volume | ||
| Ticks | ||
|
|
Avg transaction size |
|
Don't Miss Out On The Next BIG Stock Move
Event day
Event Day Chart will not be displayed beyond 90-day period of the event
Performance since event
Time And Velocity Analysis
Be the first to know
Opt in for alerts from News Quantifed
Sign Up Today
Opt-in for
NTDOY alerts
Learn More With NQ
Reading the Impact Report
Help Me Understand This Data
Help Me Understand This Data
How NQ Works
What is news-based trading?
And why is it so successful?
And why is it so successful?
Movers & Shakers
The biggest gainers and losers and WHY it moved
NTDOY alerts
High impacting NINTENDO CO LTD UNSP/ADR news events
Weekly update
A roundup of the hottest topics
NTDOY
News
- Elon Musk tries to walk back ‘go f*** yourself' comments to woo advertisers who fled X [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- Ripley's Aquarium of Myrtle Beach Kicks Off Animal Crossing: New Horizons Aquarium Tour [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- Japan's Regional Banks Are Pressured to Cut Cross-Shareholdings [BNN Bloomberg (Canada)]BNN Bloomberg
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond for Nintendo Switch Unveiled in Latest Nintendo Direct Presentation [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- Nintendo Download: Back with a Vengeance! [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance