However, the Game Gear was backed up by significantly more popular titles and consequently the market became dominated by Nintendo followed by Sega in a distant second and the Lynx in third.

However, the title was said to be in production without the approval of Nintendo, and Factor 5 cancelled multiple projects following the closure of its American branch in early 2009.

However, Nintendo pushed the Virtual Boy to market so that it could focus development resources on the Nintendo 64.

However, Nintendo designer Takashi Tezuka pointed out to Miyamoto that the character looked a lot more like a turtle than an ox.

However, with the popularity of the Game Boy Advance and the reconciliation between Square and Nintendo, the WonderSwan Color and its successor, the SwanCrystal, quickly lost its competitive advantage.

However, upon learning that using open-source software is forbidden by Nintendo for use with the Wii software development kit, the developers challenged the legality of the reverse engineering methods used by the ScummVM team, claiming that they therefore had no rights over the resulting code.

However, sprite art remains a popular medium for video-game imagery, and has witnessed a comeback in the commercial markets for handheld consoles ( like the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS ) or mobile phone games.

However, Nintendo pushed the Virtual Boy to market so that it could focus development resources on the Nintendo 64.

However, Nintendo did not initiate any legal proceedings against either company, choosing rather to pressure them with warning of legal action should they not take appropriate reaction themselves.

However similar systems of the time, such as the Nintendo Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo 64, would freeze up and could potentially become corrupt if the game cartridge was removed with the power on ; therefore manufacturers specifically warned against such practices in the owner's manual.

However, the game often considered the first true survival horror, due to having the most influence on Resident Evil, was the 1989 release Sweet Home, for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

However, the song was omitted from the Super Nintendo and GameBoy Advance ports of the game.

However, in July 2005 Rare posted job openings for Nintendo DS development on its official website, and stated that it was " creating key DS titles ".

However, upon renewal of the license, these special terms were revoked, prompting Nakamura to publicly criticize Nintendo for monopolistic behavior.

" However, after the courts found that use of the Game Genie did not result in a derivative work, Nintendo could do nothing to stop the Game Genie from being sold in the U. S. Before the lawsuit was filed, Galoob offered to make the Game Genie an officially licensed product but was turned down by Nintendo.

However within a year of the Nintendo Wii launch it had already beaten Xbox 360 sales which had been available for 2 years already.

However, more notable was the Japanese release of the Famicom in 1983 which was later released in the US as the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985.

However, since none of the games in the Metroid series up to that point had enjoyed the level of success that Mario and The Legend of Zelda had, Nintendo did not make another Metroid game until eight years later, with the release of Metroid Prime ( GameCube ) and Metroid Fusion ( Game Boy Advance ) in 2002.

However, this never panned out, and Captain Falcon was rarely seen in Nintendo media.

However, even though Nintendo expressed interest in Paradigm's early presentations, the game was cancelled because Nintendo did not have the resources to aid in its development at that time.

However, due to Japan's well-crafted fortifications and stiff resistance, the battle lasted over two months.

However, the Liancourt Rocks controversy erupted again when Japan's Shimane prefecture declared " Takeshima Day ", inciting mass demonstrations in South Korea.

However, Data East and its related developer Technōs Japan's Karate Champ from 1984 is credited with establishing and popularizing the one-on-one fighting game genre.

However, in response to US threats to cut Japan's fishing quota in US territorial waters under the terms of the Packwood-Magnuson Amendment, Japan withdrew its objection in 1987.

However, after the end of occupation, much of Japan's educational system reverted to the older system.

However, three hours before Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian Government, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur.

However, after 1939 and especially after Japan's invasion of the islands to the north in 1941, civil aviation was sacrificed to military needs.

However, the zaibatsu ( Japan's family-controlled industrial conglomerates ) were ordered to be dismantled by the Allied powers in 1950, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was split into three regional companies, each with an involvement in motor vehicle development: West Japan Heavy-Industries, Central Japan Heavy-Industries, and East Japan Heavy-Industries.

" However the U. S. issued the Stimson Doctrine and refused to recognize Japan's conquest, which played a role in shifting U. S. policy to favor China over Japan late in the 1930s.

However, proponents contend that privatization would allow for a more efficient and flexible use of the company's funds that would help revitalize Japan's economy, which is still recovering from a series of four recessions since 1991.

However, Willard Elsbree, professor emeritus of political science at Ohio University, claims that the Japanese government and these nationalist leaders never developed " a real unity of interests between the two parties, there was no overwhelming despair on the part of the Asians at Japan's defeat ".

However, it was not until 1978's seminal Space Invaders, created by Nishikado at Japan's Taito Corporation, that the shooter genre became prolific.

However, his orders were canceled after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forcing Japan's surrender.

However, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a leak of Japan's war plan and news that Japanese troopships were on their way to Indochina.

However, dying at the young age of 28, Takasugi was not to become one of Japan's famous leaders in the subsequent Meiji era.

However, the two most famous cherry blossom parks in China reflect Japan's brief occupation of parts of China during the first half of the 20th century or the donation from Japan thereafter:

However, this has tended to favor the LDP, because sparsely populated rural districts have disproportionate weight in Japan's electoral system.

However, after Japan's victories in the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars, Korea succumbed to Japanese colonial rule between 1910 and 1945.

However, Kunio Yanagita, one of Japan's earliest and foremost folklorists, made a clear distinction between yūrei and obake in his seminal Yokaidangi ( 妖怪談義 ; Lectures on Monsters ).

However, as Ikitsuki has been traditionally been dependent on specialty catches, namely squid ( ika ), and flying fish ( ago ), the island has weathered Japan's shrinking fishing industry better than most other rural communities.

However, the position was unique in among Japan's external possessions, as the Governor-General had sweeping plenipotentiary powers, and the position also entailed judicial oversight and some legislative powers.

However, as World War II progressed, opium licensing became a source of much-needed revenue for Japan's war efforts.

However, even if Yoritomo had the intention to become a monarch-level ruler, Japan's tianxia concept had not achieved the Chinese level of an Emperor who governed feudal kingdoms and was entrusted with the ordering of the world by Heaven.

However, homosexuality, while relatively innocuous among celebrities in Japan, can still be considered an oddity due to Japan's regimented and conservative social structure.