It may seem like 3D sprung from the ashes of discontentment --
not to mention red / blue glasses -- but Nintendo never stopped
believing. It's been secretly refining stereoscopic tech for
years in the likes of the Game Boy Advance and GameCube. And
while president Satoru Iwata already mentioned early last year
that the GameCube had hidden 3D circuits, he recently revealed
that the 3DS's autostereoscopic panel actually dates back to the
clamshell Game Boy Advance SP. Which, as you might recall, also
once sported a touchscreen. At the time, his story goes, LCD
resolution was too low to generate a sharp image, but the
optometrist-friendly glasses-free tech was already in place. Of
course, if you truly want to consult the history books, you can
consider Nintendo's entry into the market to be the Famicom 3D
System shutter glasses pictured above... which hit stores in
Japan way back in 1986. Yeah, we know.  Bug Labs' BUGswarm and
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