15/07/2013 30th FAMICOM anniversary

[feba]

Dear all!

There are any events in program (JAPAN, USA, UE) regarding 30th Famicom Anniversary?

Nintendo JAP organize any events about it?

[Magicantian]

I was just about to mention that we're only days away from the big 30.

Oh Famicom how you've aged so well.

It would be cool to see Nintendo do something special for this, but they probably wont. 25th is a popular number in anniversaries, so is 50. but that shouldn't stop us from celebrating.

[L___E___T]

Don't forget, they already are doing something - the WiiU Virtual Console anniversary offers:

http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu/downloads/famicom-30/

[Magicantian]

I can't believe Japan is getting Mother 2 and USA isn't, after all those Starmen.net phone and mail-ins.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/01/wii_u_virtual_console_trial_campaign_schedule_released

[L___E___T]

It's probably just on the way a bit later.

[Magicantian]

You're probably right. We should maybe do something, like a highscore contest, no prize necessary just maybe for fun or something like that.

[g_block]

Earthbound (aka Mother 2) has been confirmed for release on the Wii U (not Wii) Virtual Console.

Retro Gamer magazine (based out of the UK) #118 which hits July 18th is doing a 30th anniversary story on the system and the games that impacted it.

[wholesalewatch648]

the date looks funny. here in america we say 07/15/2013

[nerdynebraskan]

Happy Birthday, Famicom! Thank you for rescuing us from Atari's mediocrity.

Oh, and @wholesale, I actually like the international ordering with dates. They're arranged neatly, from smallest to largest increment.
Why do we randomly order our dates Medium-small-large in the States?

[L___E___T]

Because in the US they say "June Seventh", while over here we say "the Seventh of June".

[nerdynebraskan]

That's just another symptom of the same issue. I'm actually kind of curious now why we Americans do that differently...

[L___E___T]

Because you do things so slowly that the month becomes the more important part of the date??   

I jest!

[nerdynebraskan]

You're going to tease ME on the Fourth of July? You're just mad we Yanks declared independence from y'all. (Interestingly enough, we do call Independence Day here "the Fourth of July" rather than "July Fourth.") Maybe we weren't fully "American" yet when we decided that.

[L___E___T]

I like to pretend that day never happened. 


Jokes aside, I knew what day it was but completely forgot about that

[Nightstar699]

I plan to celebrate this wondrous occasion by beating 30 Famicom games in one day. I am looking forward to it.