Nintendo Space World

Nintendo Space World[lower-alpha 1], formerly named Shoshinkai[lower-alpha 2] and Famicom Space World[lower-alpha 3], was a video game trade show hosted by Nintendo from 1989 to 2001. Its three days of high-energy party atmosphere was the primary venue for Nintendo and its licensees to announce and demonstrate new consoles and games. Anticipated and dissected each year with hype and exclusivity, it was a destination for the international video game press, with some detailed developer interviews and technology demos. The events served as the launch or marketing flashpoints of countless major industrywide products, especially Nintendo's flagship platforms and video games. There launched the Super Famicom, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, 64DD, and all the core games for the Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon franchises. Some major exhibitions would be teased and then never be seen again, leaving fans and press to maintain hype and inquiry for years as with the Super Mario 128 demo, the controversial Wind Waker teaser video, EarthBound 64, and a litany of lost 64DD games.

Nintendo Space World (Shoshinkai)
任天堂スペースワールド
StatusInactive
GenreVideo gaming
FrequencyAnnually
Location(s)Kyoto, Japan
Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan
CountryJapan
InauguratedJuly 28, 1989 (1989-07-28) (as Shoshinkai)
Most recentAugust 24, 2001 (2001-08-24)
Organized byNintendo

Format

The three day format had one day called Shoshinkai (lit. "beginning party") dedicated to press, and two days called Space World for public attendance. The show floor had many third party booths surrounding Nintendo's large main booths, all with videos and many playable prerelease games, and some with outlandish decor and character performances. Unlike most other video game trade events, it was not held at any set interval; Nintendo decided whether and when to hold the show at any time. It always took place in Japan, either in Kyoto which also hosts Nintendo's headquarters, or at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba. After the most recent Space World show in 2001, the company instead began to favor online publishing as well as industry-wide conferences such as E3.

Nintendo Power explains: "Q: What is Famicom Space World? A: Space World is a free show for the public that follows the one-day Shoshinkai. Gamers who wish to attend need only pick up an entry pass at any official Nintendo retail location in Japan."[1]:13

History

Shoshinkai 1989

The first Shoshinkai show was held on July 28, 1989.[2] The Super Famicom was announced and Super Mario Bros. 3 was reportedly shown.

Shoshinkai 1990

The second Shoshinkai show was held on August 28–29, 1990.[3] The final version of the Super Famicom was unveiled to the public. Famicom, Super Famicom, and Game Boy games were on display in areas that Nintendo called "Symbolic Zones".

Shoshinkai 1991

The third Shoshinkai show was held on April 24 to May 6, 1991.[4] The Super Famicom had been on the market for a few months and much attention was given to its games including Final Fantasy IV and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Shoshinkai 1992

The fourth Shoshinkai show was held on August 26, 1992.[5] The Super FX chip was announced.

Shoshinkai 1993

The fifth Shoshinkai show was held on August 22, 1993.[6] On August 23, President of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi, announced Project Reality, a major strategic partnership with Silicon Graphics for the development of what would become the Nintendo 64.[7]

Shoshinkai 1994

The sixth Shoshinkai show was held on November 15–16, 1994.[8] Hiroshi Yamauchi introduced the portable Virtual Boy console, along with its hardware specifications, launch games, and future games.[9][10][11] Project Reality had already been renamed Ultra 64.

Shoshinkai 1995

The seventh Shoshinkai show was held on November 22–24, 1995.[12] Popular Mechanics described the scene where "hordes of Japanese schoolkids huddled in the cold outside an exhibition hall in a small town near Tokyo, the electricity of anticipation clearly rippling through their ranks".[13]

The show featured the public unveiling of the newly renamed Nintendo 64 console, with thirteen games.[14] This included the playable prototypes of Super Mario 64 and Kirby Bowl 64, and a videotape containing a total of three minutes of very early footage of eleven other Nintendo 64 games. Of all these, the development of Super Mario 64 was reportedly the most advanced, though only 50 percent complete.[13][15][16] Twelve playable demos had been prepared for the show, but Hiroshi Yamauchi removed ten of them from the itinerary just days beforehand.[17] Zelda 64 was shown in the form of an abstract technical and thematic demonstration video, where Next Generation magazine said "Well, the fact is that the videotape sequences shown at Shoshinkai bear very little resemblance to what the final product will actually look like. Spectacular scenes of a surprisingly large Link clad in polished armor are most likely to end up in cut-scenes rather than representing the actual play."[18][19]

Nintendo made its first announcement of the 64DD peripheral, saying it would be launched by the end of 1996,[20] though releasing virtually no technical specifications.[13]

Shoshinkai 1996
Shoshinkai 1996 logo

The eighth Shoshinkai show was held on November 22–24, 1996[21] and was located at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, Japan.[22] New software was shown for the Nintendo 64, Super NES, and Game Boy.[22]

This show bore the first demonstration of the 64DD, which IGN reported was one of the biggest items of the show along with first-party games,[23] while other gaming press said 64DD was kept out of the spotlight and had no meaningful demonstration of capabilities.[22][24] Nintendo itself stated that the company was deliberately downplaying the 64DD at the show in order to demonstrate the ongoing commitment to the cartridge format.[25] Nintendo's Director of Corporate Communications, Perrin Kaplan, made the company's first official launch window announcement for 64DD, scheduled for late 1997 in Japan.[26] The 64DD system was shown in its own display booth with the hardware specifications having been finalized, according to Nintendo of America's Chairman Howard Lincoln. The system played a 64DD copy of the Super Mario 64 cartridge game, which had been a rushed improvised conversion onto 64DD disk only to demonstrate the use of the bootable prototype floppy drive storage device at this show.[27] The booth also demonstrated the process of rendering audience members' photographed faces onto 3D avatars and shapes—a feature which was ultimately incorporated and released in 2000 as Mario Artist: Talent Studio and the Capture Cassette for 64DD.[28][29] Another 64DD game in development was Creator, a music and animation game by Software Creations,[30] the same UK company that had made Sound Tool for the Nintendo Ultra 64 development kit. They touted the game's ability to be integrated into other games, allowing a player to replace any such game's textures and possibly create new levels and characters. There was no playable version of Creator available at this show, but the project was later absorbed into Mario Artist: Paint Studio (1999).[30][31][32]

Reportedly several developers attended the show to learn how to develop for 64DD, some having traveled from the US for the 64DD presentation and some having received 64DD development kits.[33] Included in the early roster of committed 64DD developers, Rare officially discounted any rumors of the peripheral's impending pre-release cancellation.[34]

N64.com described the presentation of Zelda 64 as "very quick shots on videotape".[28] Yoshi's Island 64 debuted in a short video, and was eventually released as Yoshi's Story.[35] "The biggest surprise" of the show according to IGN and "most impressive [new peripheral]" according to Electronic Gaming Monthly was the Jolting Pak,[23][36] which would eventually be launched as the Rumble Pak in a bundle with the upcoming Star Fox 64. Next Generation derisively claimed it "was seen as merely another whimsical Nintendo fancy destined to the bin marked Good Idea at the Time".[22]

The highly anticipated EarthBound 64 debuted as a video trailer segment within the overall video loop. Copies of this footage would be hunted and analyzed for decades as part of EarthBound fandom and lore.[37][38][39][40]

Space World 1997

The ninth show was renamed to Space World, held on November 21–23, 1997.[41] Some media of the event was streamed live on Nintendo's website.[42] The event featured a very early prototype of Pokémon Gold and Silver,[43] with two starting Pokémon which don't appear in the final game, and an early Chikorita. The game would not be completed until 1999, by which point it would have largely changed. The ROM image for this demo was anonymously dumped and released online on May 31, 2018.[44]

George Harrison, the Vice President of Nintendo of America, explained that the presentations made by many third party developers at this show were lackluster because of the unexpected difficulty of the industry's transition from 2D to 3D game development. He described the logistics involved in the launch of the already-delayed 64DD.[45]

[Nintendo can't guarantee that the 64DD will launch in the US in 1998], but what we can say is that it will launch when it is ready and when we have a compelling piece of software for it. But it's an accessory and we all know the history of selling add-ons in this marketplace, and to be successful we'd have to get a 60%-to-80% penetration of this 64DD into the installed base of N64 to be considered a success. We can't just have 10% or 20% of people buy it, otherwise it wouldn't make any sense to continue software support for it.

— George Harrison, VP of Nintendo of America, April 1997

Space World 1999

Having skipped 1998 because of a lack of 64DD launch games to show,[46] the tenth show was held on August 27–29, 1999.[47] IGN explained that the 64DD's notoriously repeated launch delays were so significant, and the company's software library was so dependent upon the 64DD's launch, that this would directly cause the skipping of the 1998 Space World. The event had been delayed from 1998 to early 1999 and had been expected to slip again to November 1999.[46]

Many games for Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color were announced and demonstrated,[48] including Zelda Gaiden (later renamed Majora's Mask), Paper Mario, Mother 3, Pokémon Gold and Silver, Doshin the Giant for 64DD, and Gendai Dai-Senryaku: Ultimate War for 64DD. IGN said that Ultimate War was one of the best games of the show, including "competitive network gaming via the Randnet service".[49][50] Doshin the Giant's developer Kazutoshi Iida recalled a "continuous line of people queued to use the eight playable test units, and the 'Large Screen Experience'" with a very enthusiastic foreign press. A "captivated" audience of young children returned on each of the event's three days just to play Doshin.[51] EarthBound 64 was demonstrated.[52][38] The announcement that it had been converted from 64DD disk to cartridge plus expansion disk was taken by IGN as bad news for the 64DD, having been seen as a crucial launch game for the device.[52]

There was a detailed stage play themed for Pokémon, with lively actors dressed in large, fuzzy costumes. Pokémon audio CDs were given to the audience.[53]

Space World 2000

The eleventh show was held on August 24–26, 2000.[54] This hosted the dual-announcement of GameCube and Game Boy Advance, while maintaining Nintendo 64.[55] In June, Famitsu gaming magazine in Japan had published a seemingly incomplete list of games expected to be covered at the show, for the Nintendo 64, Game Boy, and the upcoming Game Boy Advance.[56]

IGN joked that the 64DD was "DeaDD"[57] and Newsweek said, "the gaming press had already witnessed [early pre-launch demonstrations of] the stunning graphics of 128-bit videogame systems like Sega's Dreamcast, Sony's PlayStation 2, and Microsoft's Xbox [so] when you're late to the party, you'd better be dressed to kill."[55]

Spaceworld delivered the unveiling of GameCube, the playability of Game Boy Advance and more than a dozen new Nintendo 64 games, but it also signified the official demise of the Nintendo's 64DD add-on device. The hardware was not only completely absent from the event, but previously scheduled products like Ultimate War and Doubutsu Banchou both showed up in playable form – on cartridge for Nintendo 64.[58][49] Nintendo did not speak about 64DD during its opening speech, nor did the hardware itself have any booth presence. In fact, the unofficial "No 64DD!" policy seemed to be enforced by Nintendo so brutally that had we even muttered the name of the hardware, we would have probably been tossed out of the show.

— IGN[57]
The Super Mario 128 demo

The show floor had an audience of 2,000, mostly male. Entertainment included "heavy artillery-loud techno music, smoke machines, and women in latex skirts".[55] There was a huge screen at Nintendo's event stage,[59] with two hours of next-generation presentation videos.[60] A compilation trailer of Nintendo licenses running on GameCube hardware was displayed, including Derby Stallion,[59][61] Super Smash Bros. Melee, Luigi's Mansion, Metroid Prime, Meowth's Party, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Kameo: Elements of Power, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and Batman: Vengeance. Nintendo conducted the now legendary interactive technology demonstration called Super Mario 128 and played the brief video clip of The Legend of Zelda 128.[62] Created with a realistic and gritty look to demonstrate the GameCube's power, the clip resonated with fans and commentators who hoped it previewed the next Zelda game.[63][64] Newsweek said "There were 128 Marios bouncing around on an endlessly shifting landscape; a nightclub filled with rambunctious Pokémons; a Star Wars X-wing fighter leading a blazing assault on the Death Star—all so vividly rendered that they could have been stolen from a Pixar movie. And judging from the raucous response, the standing-room only crowd clearly felt that GameCube was well worth the wait."[55]

The following two days included hands-on demonstrations of games such as Sin and Punishment, Mystery Dungeon, and Animal Forest for Nintendo 64, and Mario Kart Advance for GBA.[60]

EarthBound 64 is one of the most anticipated games for this show and in all of Nintendo's history, but had been canceled in an announcement just a few days prior on August 20, 2000.[65][38]

Space World 2001

The twelfth show was held on August 24–26, 2001[66] and was the last Space World consumer event. It featured the upcoming GameCube and recently released Game Boy Advance. A short clip of Super Mario Sunshine was shown in its early form.

Following the previous year's show, Nintendo presented a second demo clip of the upcoming Zelda game. Response to the radically different cel-shaded design was divided. Some attendees enjoyed the new look, but there was backlash from disappointed fans who had hoped for a more realistic Zelda like the previous year's demo. Critics derisively dubbed the game "Celda".[67][63][68] Miyamoto was surprised at the response.[69][70]

Other events

From 2003 to 2006, Nintendo held the annual Nintendo Fusion Tour, featuring the announcement of the company's latest video games and a rock music venue.

Nintendo World 2006 showcased the Wii and Nintendo DS. Nintendo World 2011 was in Tokyo from January 8–10, 2011. At this exhibition, the company gave the specific details on the Japanese launch of the Nintendo 3DS.[71]

The company has held a number of gameplay competition events such as Nintendo World Championships, Nintendo PowerFest '94, and Nintendo Campus Challenge. Nintendo has presented major releases and announcements by consistently participating with Electronic Entertainment Expo, and by creating its own online video event series Nintendo Direct.

Legacy

Some Shoshinkai and Space World events served as epicenters of some of the most intense anticipation within the video game industry of the late 90s and the 2000s. There launched the Super Famicom, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, 64DD, and all the core games for the Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon franchises. Some events showed exclusive videos, playable previews, and live technology demos of vital video game material that would never be seen again, leaving fans and press to build hype and intrigue for years. Ever since, video game historians would mine remnants of papers, video clips, interviews, and software from the show's corpus of media materials. This would be gleaned from trade press coverage at the time, revisited in celebrity developer interviews over the years, and from artifacts discovered in the world's secondary markets over the decades.

In 2014, collectors discovered in a thrift shop in Japan the Super Mario 64 floppy disk for 64DD from Shoshinkai 1996. The global community of video game historians analyzed the software's cosmetic idiosyncrasies which had resulted from its disposable nature as a late improvised demonstration of the floppy drive prototype.[27][72]

EarthBound 64 debuted at Shoshinkai 1996 with exclusive teaser videos and again as a demonstration in 1999. The game was only ever experienced by the public at this trade show, as one of the most anticipated and yet inexplicably unreleased games of Nintendo's history. In 2019, collectors discovered more video clips from the 1996 show, to be analyzed and canonized by EarthBound fandom.[37][38][39][40]

Space World 2000's technology demonstration session launched what would become the decade-long legend of Super Mario 128. It possessed the world's intrigue and created some of the highest anticipation of gaming history, in part because its exclusivity to this one brief event made it so mysterious. Instead of becoming a real game, it sowed many pieces of technology into various hit games such as Pikmin, Metroid Prime, and Super Mario Galaxy.[73][74][75][76][77][78][79]

Notes
  1. Japanese: 任天堂スペースワールド Hepburn: Nintendō Supēsu Wārudo
  2. Japanese: 初心会
  3. Japanese: ファミコンスペースワールド Hepburn: Famikon Supēsu Wārudo
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