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R5V47 TIL Nintendo copied LEGO in the 60´s and outsold them for a few years in Japan. Their N&B Block series were very similar to LEGO an way more popular because they had more round shapes. Nintendo stopped the N&B Block series in the early 70s, most likely due to legal pressure from LEGO.
PYwwZ TIL in 1972, Nintendo launched the "Lefty RX", a remote-controlled car that could ONLY make left turns due to a deliberately cheap design. It ended up being a tremendous success, and influenced Nintendo focusing on fun over next-gen-tech in future video game consoles.
6Eell TIL that Nintendo had produced a physical toy version of duck hunt in 1976, a full 8 Years before the original game came out