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https://y-n10.com/ https://y-n10.com/ The website of the Nintendo founder's family office. It..is just beautifully designed, and a homage to the original game

https://y-n10.com/ https://y-n10.com/ The website of the Nintendo founder's family office. It..is just beautifully designed, and a homage to the original game consoles and the entire art form of PC gaming when it started. Earlier thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803201

asaph 5y ago
Warning: If you click on the logo at the center of the screen, music plays, which may bother others around you.
- earthboundkid 5y ago
  Yeah, but everyone has been WFH for two years now…
  - ChrisRR 5y ago
    I don't know about other countries but in the UK it's been almost entirely back to work for months now.
    - ectopod 5y ago
      I don't know anyone spending more than one day a week in an office in the UK. Trains are very under-utilised. Business owners in city centres are still grumbling about the lack of trade.
  - MisterSandman 5y ago
    Theory: any conversation on Hacker News that can boil down to WFH discussion, will.
    - earthboundkid 5y ago
      MisterSandman's Law.
  - chefandy 5y ago
    Yeah but some people live with other people. Even developers.
- kgwxd 5y ago
  Thanks for mentioning it. I was excited about the site without my speakers on, now I'm over the moon!
- xdfgh1112 5y ago
  Most browsers have the option to mute all sites by default unless you explicitly give permission. I find it quite useful!
alberth 5y ago
Love this site. Does anyone know what typeface/font is used? I'm referring to the typeface that is similar to Inter (but isn't).
- chefandy 5y ago
  I think it’s Univers, designed by Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger in the mid-50s. The lower-case ‘a’ was the first glyph I saw distinguishing it from Helvetica and Helvetica Neue, and the uppercase ‘R’ was the first I noticed distinguishing it from Helvetica Now, Arial and Frutiger. There’s a zillion fonts that look like Helvetica/Univers/Akzidenz-Grotesk but most professional treatments will just use one of those and make sure it’s leaded, kerned, weighted and laid out properly. The Helvetica documentary is a fun watch that will also give a useful overview of these sorts of type families. The differences are pretty subtle. Though the typeface is beautiful, a less skillful design would render it unremarkable. The typesetting and overall design— i.e. contrast, relationship among elements, controlling the path of the eye with visual hierarchy, etc.— is What makes the type really shine here. If you like this vibe, you might enjoy the posters of long-time MIT graphic designer Jacquelin Casey.
eezurr 5y ago
Wow! I've been using the internet since the 90s and I have never had my hair blown back by a webpage before. The isometric view certainly hits the nostalgia button. Edit (from the site): "Japan was once globally renowned for its people's quality of unique creativity teamed with a pioneering mindset. Their innovation and inventions changed the world. But that golden era has long been gone. It seems that the quality Japanese people once possessed is overshadowed by worry and fear." It's really interesting to hear that coming from the family office of one the largest companies in Japan. I can't imagine an American leader making a public statement like that (about the USA), probably because US companies prey on fear and FOMO.
- halikular 5y ago
  It's bold of the Nintendo family to make such statements about Japanese society when they can't even get their own company under control themselves. Nintendo is probably the most universally hated gaming company and it's true of other Japanese companies as well. They seem to be scared of the internet and goes out of their way to claim copyright infringement on anything fan made having to do with their intellectual property. They will try take down everything they possibly can, it's so bad you have to fear covering any of their games, even their music on platforms such as YouTube. Any efforts to preserve old Nintendo games via e.g. emulation is quickly met with a lawsuit. Whether or not you comply with their requests they will try to sue you for millions, even children. Just check out all the recent cases on Google. https://www.google.com/search?q=nintendo+sues https://www.google.com/search?q=nintendo+sues
  - eezurr 5y ago
    I think I understand why Nintendo heavily protects their IP. Their strategy dates back to when Nintendo first expanded into the US in the 1980s after the video game crash of 1983 (which partially happened because of the overwhelming amount of low quality games being produced then)[1]. They deeply care about quality and being associated with it. When they launched the NES, they heavily filtered 3rd party studios and created the "Golden Seal of Approval" for all of their licensed games. Their strategy works. People trust Nintendo to give them high quality entertainment. They even went as far as designing the NES box to look like a VCR appliance, not a video game console, all because of the negative association people had after the VG crash! So expanding from that, they (rightfully, from a business culture perspective) don't want their IP being tampered with, nor associated with a product they themselves did not create. Nintendo probably spends a much higher percentage on R&D than the average video game company. They don't want all their efforts to be watered down from mimicry. They don't want someone to see Mario in a meme post on YouTube and associate Mario with that video. They want Mario to equate to the production quality they work really hard to produce again and again. You're wrong about Nintendo being hated. People love them, because they trust Nintendo. And Nintendo in turn works extremely hard at building and maintaining that trust. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
imwillofficial 5y ago
This was insanely awesome. A sense of childlike wonder enveloped me when I navigated it
netsharc 5y ago
I seem to remember seeing it in white, I wonder if it has dark mode, which depends on the daytime of Japan!
miobrien 5y ago
Wow. What a site!
pmarreck 5y ago
I didn't get it until I figured this out: Scroll down. lol

asaph 5y ago

Warning: If you click on the logo at the center of the screen, music plays, which may bother others around you.

earthboundkid 5y ago
Yeah, but everyone has been WFH for two years now…
- ChrisRR 5y ago
  I don't know about other countries but in the UK it's been almost entirely back to work for months now.
  - ectopod 5y ago
    I don't know anyone spending more than one day a week in an office in the UK. Trains are very under-utilised. Business owners in city centres are still grumbling about the lack of trade.
- MisterSandman 5y ago
  Theory: any conversation on Hacker News that can boil down to WFH discussion, will.
  - earthboundkid 5y ago
    MisterSandman's Law.
- chefandy 5y ago
  Yeah but some people live with other people. Even developers.
kgwxd 5y ago
Thanks for mentioning it. I was excited about the site without my speakers on, now I'm over the moon!
xdfgh1112 5y ago
Most browsers have the option to mute all sites by default unless you explicitly give permission. I find it quite useful!

alberth 5y ago

Love this site. Does anyone know what typeface/font is used? I'm referring to the typeface that is similar to Inter (but isn't).

chefandy 5y ago
I think it’s Univers, designed by Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger in the mid-50s. The lower-case ‘a’ was the first glyph I saw distinguishing it from Helvetica and Helvetica Neue, and the uppercase ‘R’ was the first I noticed distinguishing it from Helvetica Now, Arial and Frutiger. There’s a zillion fonts that look like Helvetica/Univers/Akzidenz-Grotesk but most professional treatments will just use one of those and make sure it’s leaded, kerned, weighted and laid out properly. The Helvetica documentary is a fun watch that will also give a useful overview of these sorts of type families. The differences are pretty subtle. Though the typeface is beautiful, a less skillful design would render it unremarkable. The typesetting and overall design— i.e. contrast, relationship among elements, controlling the path of the eye with visual hierarchy, etc.— is What makes the type really shine here. If you like this vibe, you might enjoy the posters of long-time MIT graphic designer Jacquelin Casey.

eezurr 5y ago

Wow! I've been using the internet since the 90s and I have never had my hair blown back by a webpage before. The isometric view certainly hits the nostalgia button. Edit (from the site): "Japan was once globally renowned for its people's quality of unique creativity teamed with a pioneering mindset. Their innovation and inventions changed the world. But that golden era has long been gone. It seems that the quality Japanese people once possessed is overshadowed by worry and fear." It's really interesting to hear that coming from the family office of one the largest companies in Japan. I can't imagine an American leader making a public statement like that (about the USA), probably because US companies prey on fear and FOMO.

halikular 5y ago
It's bold of the Nintendo family to make such statements about Japanese society when they can't even get their own company under control themselves. Nintendo is probably the most universally hated gaming company and it's true of other Japanese companies as well. They seem to be scared of the internet and goes out of their way to claim copyright infringement on anything fan made having to do with their intellectual property. They will try take down everything they possibly can, it's so bad you have to fear covering any of their games, even their music on platforms such as YouTube. Any efforts to preserve old Nintendo games via e.g. emulation is quickly met with a lawsuit. Whether or not you comply with their requests they will try to sue you for millions, even children. Just check out all the recent cases on Google. https://www.google.com/search?q=nintendo+sues https://www.google.com/search?q=nintendo+sues
- eezurr 5y ago
  I think I understand why Nintendo heavily protects their IP. Their strategy dates back to when Nintendo first expanded into the US in the 1980s after the video game crash of 1983 (which partially happened because of the overwhelming amount of low quality games being produced then)[1]. They deeply care about quality and being associated with it. When they launched the NES, they heavily filtered 3rd party studios and created the "Golden Seal of Approval" for all of their licensed games. Their strategy works. People trust Nintendo to give them high quality entertainment. They even went as far as designing the NES box to look like a VCR appliance, not a video game console, all because of the negative association people had after the VG crash! So expanding from that, they (rightfully, from a business culture perspective) don't want their IP being tampered with, nor associated with a product they themselves did not create. Nintendo probably spends a much higher percentage on R&D than the average video game company. They don't want all their efforts to be watered down from mimicry. They don't want someone to see Mario in a meme post on YouTube and associate Mario with that video. They want Mario to equate to the production quality they work really hard to produce again and again. You're wrong about Nintendo being hated. People love them, because they trust Nintendo. And Nintendo in turn works extremely hard at building and maintaining that trust. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

imwillofficial 5y ago

This was insanely awesome. A sense of childlike wonder enveloped me when I navigated it

netsharc 5y ago

I seem to remember seeing it in white, I wonder if it has dark mode, which depends on the daytime of Japan!

miobrien 5y ago

Wow. What a site!

pmarreck 5y ago

I didn't get it until I figured this out: Scroll down. lol