We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nintendo is no stranger to clever, and sometimes weird, marketing tactics to help promote its games and characters. In the mid-90s, for example, it even started making one-off Nintendo-branded peripherals for PC gamers. But perhaps its strangest marketing campaign of all was in 2001 when Nintendo paired with a seed company to create a new breed of flower. Not a digital plant you could cultivate in a game like
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