It has been said that many of the world’s great inventions were made by accident. In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen unintentionally discovered X-rays when a shielded vacuum tube cast an image of his hand-bones onto a nearby fluorescent screen. In 1878, the artificial sweetener saccharin was patented when Constantin Fahlberg forgot to wash his hands after a day in the lab and noticed that his sandwich tasted unusually sweet. Subsequent chemical taste-testing resulted in Sweet’n Low, while Play-Doh was invented as a clay sponge to clean coal dust off wallpaper.
In August of the year 2000, the staff of Nintendo R&D1 had recently completed work on , a game in the series released exclusively in Japan for the Nintendo 64DD. In , players were able to construct, render,
