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Nintendo's Origins
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Nintendo of America - The Most Genius Inversion of All Time
Hacker International is making tons of money selling their own cartridges directly and not paying a dime to Nintendo. And Nintendo meanwhile has drifted like very Disney, very Apple and their family friendliness. So they come up with maybe the most genius inversion of all time. They say we should engineer a lockout chip that you are referring to into the hardware and the software. It's actually unclear to me if that idea came from Japan or from America, but the Japanese engineers implemented it. This is a specific chip in the console that needs to handshake with specific chips in the cartridges for the new systems in America That will block out any not official Nintendo approved cartridges from playing in the console.
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