If You Thought Nintendo Only Made Video Games, Here's 7 Products To Prove You Wrong
Nintendo makes more than just video games.
The Love Tester was marketed to young people. How it worked: each person in a couple grabbed one of the metal sensors then held hands. The Love Tester would then determine how compatible the couple was on a scale from 1-100. Tenyo re-released the toy in Japan in 2010.
It's called the Rabbit Coaster, and it's the first toy made by Nintendo, in 1964. Players race bean-like objects from start to finish along a curved, multi-level track.
Essentially a plastic "grabber" toy, the Ultra Hand was designed by Gunpei Yokoi, the same person who designed the Game Boy.
Since Nintendo was founded in 1889, they've made playing cards. Actually, hanafuda cards (Japanese playing cards) were Nintendo's main product when the company was founded. They eventually branched out to make varying types of cards, including Western-style and Disney-themed playing cards. The cards pictured above are from the 1960s.
5. Games to inspire gambling among friends. Or whomever, really.
Okay so maybe Magic Roulette is only loosely based on traditional roulette, but it's still pretty surprising that the traditionally family-friendly Nintendo would make this.
The Light Telephone was a toy from the early 1970s that made great use of science. Using light waves, the Light Telephone transmitted sound. In a way, it was like a walkie-talkie that used light waves to allow two users to communicate.
It's called the "Mach Rider," and it has a gearshift and a ramp that it shoots off of in a way that totally would've freaked out kids in the 1970s with its awesomeness.