Topic: Nintendo in the classroom

[Arbok]

Odd topic title I know, but this thread is basically asking for any examples of Nintendo being used or brought up in the classroom by a teacher or other faculty (something not related to actual student conversations or presentations as I'm sure that's not uncommon).

Anyway, my inspiration for this topic came from a question on my Marketing exam (college level):

Quote
Nintendo chose a ___________ approach to pricing the new Nintendo DS because they felt the market for this product is price sensitive, there are major economies of scale to be achieved, and both Sega and Microsoft would be introducing new game systems shortly?

Just can't keep Sega down...

[IceCold]

My high school Calculus teacher used to bring up Mario when he talked about matrices.. What's the answer to the question, though? I would have thought "aggresive" but you obviously have to use a consonant at the beginning of the word.. Hmm, "competitive"?

[Ian Sane]

At the start of grade 8 the principal introduced himself to our class with a story about a man named Nintendo that invented the first videogame: Pac-Man.

My grade 3 teacher once asked me how I would feel if a Ninja Turtle came into class and shot me with a gun.

[vudu]

I think the answer the professor is looking for is low cost, but I would argue for differentiation.  However, that's more of a operations/marketing answer, so if this is economics, who knows?  I hate economics.

EDIT:  Look on the bright side, Ian, at least you have national healthcare.

[UncleBob]

Quote
Originally posted by: Ian Sane
My grade 3 teacher once asked me how I would feel if a Ninja Turtle came into class and shot me with a gun.

Wha?!?  This one needs a backgroud story...

[Arbok]

Quote
Originally posted by: vudu
I think the answer the professor is looking for is low cost, but I would argue for differentiation.  However, that's more of a operations/marketing answer, so if this is economics, who knows?  I hate economics.

Well this is a marketing class, but the correct answer was "Penetration".

Oh, and I'm still laughing at Ian's second example.

[Smoke39]

Considering I go to DigiPen, it's not uncommon for my teachers to talk about video games, Nintendo included.  One that stands out, though, was during my CS120 final.  This was like the day after the name "Wii" had been announced.  In the middle of the test, my professor wrote "CS120" on the board, crossed it out and replaced it with "Wii," and announced that the class was being renamed "Wii."

[blackfootsteps]

I was doing Constitutional Law earlier this year and we looked at the case of Nintendo Company Limited v Centronics. Centronics was importing Nintendo products and selling them on the cheap. Their products were taken away and they claimed that they should be paid 'on just terms' for the acquisition of the property. The Castle! The case was heard in the High Court of Australia and Nintendo won. Yeah!

Link to the case if you are really bored: Nintendo v Centronics

[Ian Sane]

"Wha?!? This one needs a backgroud story..."

My teacher just had a huge bias against anything that little boys found fun.  Ninja Turtles were huge at the time and thus like videogames, comic books, and The Simpsons they were a common target of her's.  Though like most irrational people she was completely ignorant of what the content she was so opposed to actually consisted of.  So she frequently made outlandish arguements about the insane amount of violence found on the TMNT TV show.  I defended the show since I knew she was full of sh!t and that comment was her rebuttal.  I had a reputation in elementary school of correcting teachers when I knew they were spreading misinformation.  In grade 2 I corrected a teacher that told us peanuts grew on trees and I even went to the library and PROVED I was right (I knew peanuts grew in the ground from an episode of Teddy Ruckspin).

[vudu]

I just read this in my Operations Management textbook.

Quote
The service industry is also moving toward mass customization.  For instance, not very many years ago most people had the same telephone service.  Now, not only is the phone service full of options, from caller ID to voice mail, but contemporary  phones are hardly phones.  They may also be part camera, computer, Playstation (sic), and Web browser.

[IceCold]

Quote
My teacher just had a huge bias against anything that little boys found fun. Ninja Turtles were huge at the time and thus like videogames, comic books, and The Simpsons they were a common target of her's. Though like most irrational people she was completely ignorant of what the content she was so opposed to actually consisted of. So she frequently made outlandish arguements about the insane amount of violence found on the TMNT TV show. I defended the show since I knew she was full of sh!t and that comment was her rebuttal. I had a reputation in elementary school of correcting teachers when I knew they were spreading misinformation. In grade 2 I corrected a teacher that told us peanuts grew on trees and I even went to the library and PROVED I was right (I knew peanuts grew in the ground from an episode of Teddy Ruckspin).

I would kill to be in Ian's class

[JonLeung]

My brother went back to school this year after seven years of being out of it.  In his book about marketing was a rather anti-Nintendo statement, used as an example.  The statement was "Anyone who thinks Nintendo is better than Sony PlayStation needs to have their head examined."  o_0

He just showed it to me like a day or two ago, and considering I rarely come to General Chat, I found the existence of this topic humourous.