#before mario

Young Shigeru Miyamoto

Above: Shigeru Miyamoto pre-Nintendo holding a design concept for Ricoh's My Teacher.

Below: Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda at Nintendo posing with a prototype cabinet of their arcade game Sheriff.

Nintendo 1976 Duck Hunt Kosenju Projector Game! Unboxing, Gameplay, Review | Retro Game Living Room

This is well before NES was released. Duck Hunt was a part of a Nintendo toy series called Nintendo Kôsenjû, where they released toys that shot at targets.

In this video, you'll see an unboxing of the system, gameplay, and a review.

For more info, check out this article on the fantastic Before Mario blog:

Special thanks and shout out to Mark from Classic Game Room who taught me how to do that…

Erik Voskuil with a 2012 post on his cool blog Before Mario, where he catalogs tchotchkes Nintendo made before the NES:

The Famicom/NES Duck Hunt isn't the first one, however. Eight years before, Nintendo already introduced a duck hunt simulation under the same name.

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Duck Hunt was one of the last electro-mechanical toys created by Nintendo, together with Custom Gunman and Custom Lion released in the same year.

This game's design is the culmination of over ten years of increasingly sophisticated engineering by Gunpei Yokoi's research and development team, and one of the most impressive electro-mechanical toys I have seen.