In 2002, Nintendo and a handful of its larger distributors were fined the sum of €167,8 million for artificially boosting the prices of several Nintendo products from 1991 – 1998. Games such as the Nintendo 64’s HeXen and the SNES’s Super Turrican, as well as their consoles, were sold at rigged prices in some countries.
HeXen on Nintendo 64 (12 years ago in 1997)
Because the prices of classic Nintendo console games, and the consoles themselves, were boosted, the European Union levied the fine.Â
Super Turrican on SNES (16 years ago in 1993)
Nintendo’s share, a whopping €134,5 million, was reduced to €107.4 million by a judge in late April of 2009, due to the company’s financial crisis and its long running cooperation with the case. The total of the fines levied against Nintendo and its distributors still reached more than €150 million.
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