Wikipedia Trails: From Peanuts to Nintendo 64

Peanuts

I decided to pick this to start my trail because it was on the announcements page. Although it has been a long time I remember watching my fair amount of the Peanut gang as I was a child. I didn't know that the show started as a comic strip, which apparently the most famous part about it. I just assumed it was always just the tv show. I also didn't know there was a peanuts movie released in 2015 so I guess I'm just a little behind on my knowledge about the group. I would say my favorite character is snoopy, which I learned he has been the face of amusement parks, companies, and even had a video game made after him.

Game boy

As I saw that snoopy had a Game Boy game, I couldn't help but resist choosing this as my next topic since this was the first gaming device I had as a child. I learned that the first one ever was released in 1989 which I didn't have, but the one I did have was the Game Boy Color which sold over 118 million units world wide. I also learned that the Gameboy Advance, which I have the best memory of came out in 2001 in which I began to play my favorite Pokemon Games.

Pokémon (video game series)

I remember that I had the original games Pokemon Red and Blue which I learned came out in 1998. I learned that in the first games there were only 151 different species of Pokemon. I also learned that in the game Super Smash Bros. that only 9 pokemon have been playable characters which is interesting. I also remember playing Pokemon Stadium on the Nintendo 64 at my daycare when I was kid which apparently came out when I was only 3 years old!

Nintendo 64

Although I never had the console, mainly because my parents wouldn't buy it for me, I remember loving to play this at my daycare. Apparently the console was released in 1996 and I would say that it most have been successful if I was still playing it and remember it a few years later. I learned that it launched with the game Mario 64 which I specifically playing and getting frustrated because I couldn't figure things out yet. The Nintendo 64 had great success in America selling 3.6 million units after just one year. I feel like this machine was a part of me growing up in a little way haha. 

This is an image of a Nintendo 64 and controller. I found it on Wikimedia Commons.