When Nintendo revived the industry, they signed up software development companies to create NES games under a strict license agreement which imposed serious restrictions on what they were allowed to do.

When Nintendo revealed the Nintendo GameCube on August 24, 2000, the day before Nintendo's SpaceWorld 2000 exposition, a software demonstration showed a realistically styled real-time duel between Ganondorf and Link.

When this fell through, Nintendo decided that it would take the opportunity to create new characters that could then be marketed and used in later games.

When he suggested this name to Nintendo of America, he was laughed at, but the name stuck.

When Nintendo of America received a 60 % complete version in November, the staff were surprised at the inclusion of an RPG battle system.

When Nintendo published the game in North America, the packaging design featured a small portion of the box cut away to reveal the unique gold-colored cartridge.

) When released to the Virtual Console for Wii and later Nintendo 3DS in North America, the " save " and " load " features were re-enabled.

When Nintendo signed Matsushita as the producer of the optical disc drives that power the GameCube, an agreement was struck allowing Matsushita to produce a DVD system with the capability to play GameCube games.

When the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was conceived, Rare limited their releases to some Battletoads games and decided to invest their significant NES profit in purchasing expensive Silicon Graphics workstations.

When the Nintendo 64, Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 were released, many chipped them, styled them, and added additional cooling ; some went as far as changing the hardware itself.

When playing Red or Blue on a Game Boy Advance or SP, the standard GBA / SP link cable will not work ; players must use the Nintendo Universal Game Link Cable instead.

When the Saturn was phased out and the Sega Dreamcast released, Sanshiro's end came in the form of a commercial involving a missile directed at the Tokyo headquarters of SEGA, implied to be launched by Sony and Nintendo.

When the arcade game Mortal Kombat was ported for home release on the Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo decided to censor the game's gore, but Sega kept the content in the game, via a code entered at the start screen ( A, B, A, C, A, B, B ).

When Nintendo decided to port Dōbutsu no Mori to the Nintendo GameCube, the American version, Animal Crossing, had much more text than the Japanese version, Dōbutsu no Mori +, in part because of the immense translation that Nintendo undertook when translating Dōbutsu no Mori from Japanese to English.

When Nintendo Power switched from a bi-monthly magazine to a monthly magazine in May 1990, every other issue was a strategy guide focused on a single game.

When Nintendo Power was redesigned, the spine picture idea was abandoned.

When asked about whether or not the game would be released on the Wii's Virtual Console or the Nintendo DS, Star Fox designer Takaya Imamura said " Probably not.

When Nintendo discovered this product, it began taking strong legal action against importers and sellers of the consoles, and have obtained a temporary injunction against the import and sale of video game systems containing counterfeit versions of Nintendo games.

When interviewed by Steven Kent in 1999, Kojima stated that he enjoyed Snake's Revenge and that he thought it was " faithful to the Metal Gear concept ", although during the 2009's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco he stated that Snake's Revenge was a " little crap game ", although he later stated in an interview with Nintendo Power that he doesn't consider it to be a " bad game ".

When this fell through, Nintendo decided that it would take the opportunity to create new characters that could then be marketed and used in later games.

When Breasted insisted that this was impossible for him, Lewis decided to go abroad.

Sir -- When the colonies decided upon freedom from England, we insisted, through the Declaration of Independence, that the nations of the world recognize us as a separate political entity.

When Giffen decided to charge him interest on the loan from John Palfrey, Gorham readily assented, vowing that in a matter of dollars and cents, his brothers would never have any cause to complain of him.

When it was decided that Asteroids would be a vector game as well, Delman modified a Lunar Lander circuit board for Ed Logg.

When Claudius decided to marry her, he persuaded a group of senators that the marriage should be arranged in the public interest.

When Secretary Stanton did not join the President's opposition to the Reconstruction acts, Johnson decided to dismiss him together with his radical subordinates.

When Aethra became pregnant, Aegeus decided to return to Athens.

When Marinchip Software Partners ( later known as Autodesk ) formed, the founders decided to re-code Interact in C and PL / 1.

When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).

When the song became a hit, Decca decided not to press its claim.

When Linnaeus was seven, Nils decided to hire a tutor for him.

When they decided to broadcast the programme, national transmission was changed from Wednesday and Friday at 19: 00 to Monday and Wednesday at 19: 30 and the programme became fully networked under this new arrangement from episode 25 on Monday 6 March 1961.

When this project never came about, Lynch decided to work on a film alone, and so purchased the cheapest 16mm camera that he could find in order to do so.

When Russia successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, Eisenhower, against the advice of Dulles, decided to initiate a disarmament proposal to the Russians.

When this state is needed, i. e., when it is decided by a database administrator to bring the database back to this state ( e. g., by specifying this state by a desired point in time when the database was in this state ), these files are utilized to restore that state.

When his father prepared to move again, Dave decided to stay in Fort Wayne, dropping out of high school to work full-time at the restaurant.

When news of his death reached Paris Eugene decided to flee to Austria in the hope of taking over his brother's command.

When the pro-Nestorius Antiochene delegation finally arrived, they decided to convene their own council over which Candidian presided.

When English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, one of the ships belonging to Thomas Cavendish's second expedition to the New World, separated from Cavendish off the coast of what is now southern Argentina, he decided to make for the Strait of Magellan in order to find Cavendish.

When he rejected an offer from businessman Gus Mears to move Fulham to land where the present-day Chelsea stadium Stamford Bridge is situated, Mears decided to create his own team to occupy the ground.

When discipline was restored, in spite of assurances that Spaniards who wished to remain would enjoy freedom of religion and full civil rights, almost all villagers decided not to run the risk of staying and left in exile.

When that city was attacked by Bernabò Visconti of Milan, its ruler, Giovanni d ' Olleggio, decided to hand it over to Albornoz.

When summer came, he decided to visit an outdoor nudist club, that of Fouracres near the town of Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, which he soon began to frequent.

The Dragon debuted in June 1976, and Gygax commented on its success years later: " When I decided that The Strategic Review was not the right vehicle, hired Tim Kask as a magazine editor for Tactical Studies Rules, and named the new publication he was to produce The Dragon, I thought we would eventually have a great periodical to serve gaming enthusiasts worldwide ... At no time did I ever contemplate so great a success or so long a lifespan.

When Greenberg decided to retire rather than play for less, Detroit sold his contract to the Pittsburgh Pirates.