The Complete (ish) History of Nintendo's Arrival in Europe

This is a documentary covering the history of Nintendo in Europe in the 1980's, from Donkey Kong and Game & Watch up until the NES.

Update: The Netherlands also had ROB because they also had distribution from Bandai.
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00:00 Intro
00:43 Nintendo of America
05:20 Donkey Kong
14:35 Game & Watch
18:35 Nintendo Vs. System
20:54 Small Boxes - The NES Comes to Europe
25:17 The Truth About Bienengräber & Co.
26:48 More Small Boxes
30:15 Two Console Bundles
31:46 Classic Series - Mario Bros.
34:56 Let's Play Mario Bros.!
42:09 The Return of Mario Bros.
46:01 Devil World
46:32 Stadlbauer's Nintendo Mini Classics
48:24 The NES in Eastern Europe
50:20 Console Wars Europe
53:09 The Spanish Version
54:26 The French RGB NES
1:00:41 The British Mattel NES
1:11:59 Jiovanotti's Italian NES
1:15:59 Founding Nintendo of Europe

Thanks
Pooka - Voice of John Richards
‪@SpinstersLibrary‬ Luigi
scrixels - Adorable pixel art record player ❤️
https://scrixels.tumblr.com/post/1655...

Sources
David Sheff - Game Over
https://archive.org/details/0966961706

Ken Horowitz - Beyond Donkey Kong, A History of Nintendo Arcade Games
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Donkey-...

Chris Wilkins & Roger M. Kean - Ocean: The History
https://archive.org/details/The_Histo...

Nintendo Wiki - Ultra Hand
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Ultr...

Arcade Museum - Crazy Kong
https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videoga...

The Golden Age Arcade Historian - Century Electronics/CVS
http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot...

Sega Retro - Sega v Richards
https://segaretro.org/Sega_v_Richards

John's Arcade - Nintendo's Vs. Unisystem
http://johnsarcade.com/nintendo_vs_pp...

NES Center - Geschichte des NES
http://www.nescenter.de/features/repo...

The Legend of NES - NTSC & PAL
https://www.thelegendofnes.com/ntsc-pal

Dirk Knight - European Version Small Boxes
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dkshots...

Retro Paradeiss
https://www.retro-paradeiss.ch/

Circuit-Board - NES Bienengräber OVPs, wer weiss was dazu?
https://circuit-board.de/forum/index....

Wikipedia - Lost of best-sellings games consoles by region
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Telegames UK - What Video Game? 1990 VHS Rip
https://archive.org/details/what-vide...

RetroNES - La historia de la NES
https://www.retrones.net/articulos/la...

fandelanes - Le full set ASD
http://fandelanes.emu-france.info/ful...

GAMOPAT - ASD? C'est quoi ?
https://www.gamopat-forum.com/t60199-...

Twitter / Florent Gorges
https://x.com/FlorentGorgesFR/status/...

Twitter / Emmanual Macron
https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1...

The Guardian - Manga-nifique! How France became obsessed with Japanese anime
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023...

IGN - Come vendere Super Mario agli italiani
https://it.ign.com/nintendo-switch/17...

NES 3000 - Cronistoria del NES
https://web.archive.org/web/200806070...

Retrolaser - Los verdaderos inicios de Nintendo NES en España
https://retrolaser.es/los-inicios-de-...

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