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 the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.

When Mahavira revived and reorganized the Jain movement in the 6th or 5th century BCE, ahimsa was already an established, strictly observed rule.

When the hermits were gathered to Saint Anthony's corpse to mourn his death, Saint Anthony was revived.

When squares were revived ( around 1925 to 1940, depending on the region ), contra dances were generally not included.

When King John II of Portugal revived the work of Henry the Navigator, he sent out Cão ( about midsummer (?

When Rohmer revived the series in the early 1930s, Smith ( who has been knighted ) is Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard.

" When talking about the poem on its own, Hunt claimed it " is a voice and a vision, an everlasting tune in our mouths, a dream fit for Cambuscan and all his poets, a dance of pictures such as Giotto or Cimabue, revived and re-inspired, would have made for a Storie of Old Tartarie, a piece of the invisible world made visible by a sun at midnight and sliding before our eyes ...

When the franchise was later revived in films and new series enjoying larger budgets and improved makeup techniques, the appearance of Klingons was changed drastically.

When the American Association revived as a minor league in 1902, the Mud Hens joined as a charter member.

When a segment of his army fled from battle, abandoning their weapons, Crassus revived the ancient practice of decimation – i. e., executing one out of every ten men, with the victims selected by drawing lots.

When Ruddigore was revived after some thirty-four years this jumble was found unsuitable ... and a new overture ( which has been used ever since ) was written by Geoffrey Toye.

When it was revived by Tartaglia and others in the 16th century, it became the basis for quantitative work in science for a century, until it was replaced by the algebraic methods of Descartes.

When GT racing revived after the collapse of the World Sports Car Championship at the end of 1992, the lead in defining rules was taken by the ACO.

When the two plays were revived together in 1633, Fletcher's play proved more popular than Shakespeare's.

When the Star Trek franchise was revived, Doohan reprised his role of Scotty in seven Star Trek films and made a guest appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation's 130th episode " Relics ", all of which left him financially comfortable.

When Spain revived the Royal Decree of Graces of 1815 with the intention of attracting non-Hispanics to settle in the island hundreds of French ( especially Corsicans ), Germans and Irish immigrants who were affected by Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s immigrated to Puerto Rico.

When Thanatos ascended from Hades to claim Alkestis, Herakles sprung upon the god and overpowered him, winning the right to have Alkestis revived.

When Mary died and was succeeded by her sister Elizabeth, five of the six revived communities left again to exile in continental Europe.

When Te Atarahi revived, he mentioned being offered food by the inhabitants of Te Reinga, and also offered the information that ngaro was one of their delicacies.

When the JLA series was revived by Grant Morrison in 1997, he had a 4-issue story beginning in JLA ( vol.

When Arthur's business partner Daniel Doyce returns from Russia a wealthy man, Arthur is released with his fortunes revived, and Arthur and Amy are married.

When the Heruli overran Greece and captured Athens ( 269 ), Dexippus showed great personal courage and revived the spirit of patriotism among his fellow-countrymen.

When Tinker Bell is revived by a ritual collective enunciation of " I do believe in fairies ", the stars shout curses at the children who do not participate or actively jeopardize her revival through their disbelief.

When democracy was revived as a political system about 2000 years later, decisions were made by representatives rather than directly by the people.