How the Game Boy ᵃˡᵐᵒˢᵗ ruined Nintendo

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The Game Boy was a low spec machine that changed gaming, so why was it so hard to develop? And how did it almost destroyed Nintendo from the inside?



En español: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25UgN5AY_s

Sources for how LCD work and their history:


Terry Scheffer, Jürgen Nehring (1997). Supertwisted nematic (STN) liquid crystal displays. Annual Review of Materials Research.


E P Raynes. C M Waters (1987). Supertwisted nematic liquid crystal displays.


Hirohisa Kawamoto (2012). The History of Liquid-Crystal Display and Its Industry. 2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)


https://www.britannica.com/technology/liquid-crystal-display

https://web.media.mit.edu/~stefan/liquid-crystals/node5.html


Source for the historical bits:


History of Nintendo, Vol 4 by Florent Gorges


Source for the image of Uemura:


Famicom Tsushin magazine, July 1989. Scanned by: https://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/SFC_1989Q3.html


Credits:


Most of the music and music timing by Roccow: https://soundcloud.com/roccow
Other song by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator

Drawings by Maiku No Koe: https://twitter.com/maiku_no_koe

3D animations by Windy.


Smash Intro by Dango

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