1st May 2004, 1:01 PM
No, they weren't a Nintendo start up. Nintendo bought some of their stock at first and let them run under their own management but things were really getting out of control [slow game development, little results, poor management, ect.] and Nintendo finally stepped in and bought them out completely and that's when things got on track. You're right it's not the same, but I still think it was due to Nintendo that things turned out the way they did.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.