In the summer of 2003, Mario creator Miyamoto-san showed what would become the DS today to Iwata-san, CEO of Nintendo.
The prototype was a pocket PC. In order to simulate the dual screen nature, Miyamoto intentionally put a strip of black tape to divide the screen into two halves. And he wrote a simple program where blocks would fall from the upper screen to the bottom screen. In the bottom screen there was Mario, and if you tapped Mario with the stylus, it would make him jump.
Pretty interesting bit of trivia.
Source: Philosophy of Nintendo - pg. 49
2 comments:
so what does the I mean in DSI assuming that Dual Screen is still the DS part of it.
Hi there, thanks for the comment. I've heard that the I in DSi means I as in "you and I". And the pun on "i" and eye, where the eye is the camera.
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