Nintendo finally put its next home system on sale in Japan on June 23, 1996. After years of delays and growing anticipation, the company shipped about 300,000 units for the first day. Every one sold. Three games sat on shelves alongside the hardware: Super Mario 64, Pilotwings 64, and a Shogi (Japanese chess) title limited to that market.
Storyteller Overland just put a nearly three-hundred-thousand-dollar price tag on a Ram 3500 that can sleep four, cook a full meal, and open its rear wall into an elevated outdoor platform. The GXV Wild arrives as the smaller, more agile member of the company’s Global Expedition Vehicles line, built to reach remote places while still offering real living space once you stop.
Canon owners who once pointed their EOS 550D at landscapes or family gatherings can now point it at the forces of Hell. A new software module lets the 2010 Rebel T2i (known as the Kiss X4 in some markets) run the original Doom, complete with movement, shooting, sound, and save files, all controlled by the camera’s own buttons and dials.
Peter Snow and Lindsey Fallow opened their special edition of Tomorrow’s World with a simple greeting from the BBC Futureworld exhibition in Bristol. This was a Webwise special meant to give viewers a practical head start on the internet. More than 330 million people were already online around the planet, and new users were joining every second. The live show mixed demonstrations of new hardware and software with challenges for ordinary families still getting their bearings.
Fujifilm put together a simple bundle around its Instax Mini 41 camera, priced at $99.95 (was $117), that lets anyone grab quick shots and walk away with physical prints in about 90 seconds. The bundle includes the camera itself, one 10-pack of Instax Mini film, a hand strap, two AA batteries, a quick start guide, and a one-year limited warranty. Credit-card-sized prints measure roughly 2 by 3 inches overall, with the image area at 62 by 46 millimeters, and they develop on their own once ejected.