Has Nintendo Forgotten Its Past?

Now, before anyone starts wondering, this is nothing to do with the whole casual gamer fad and Nintendo's focus on the casual gaming scene with games like Wii Sports or Wii Fit. Instead, it's a more literal point, that Nintendo seems to erased many, many references to it's past from before the NES/Famicom released from it's website.

Take for example Nintendo of America's pretty poorly done history page, it's about half accurate, literally:

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/history.jsp

Note how it completely ignores the entire company history prior to the NES release. No mention of playing cards or their other ventures. No mention that games like Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, 3 and Mario Bros were arcade games first. Oddly enough, even the Japanese site doesn't say a great deal about the history of the company, sticking to a similar list.

Other examples run semi rampant. You've got Punch Out!, which seems to be identified purely as starting from the NES version, without regard to the two arcade games in the series that came around the same time. Many Mario sites on the official site seem to state Super Mario Bros as the definite beginning of the series and pretty much displace the former games. You've almost got to feel sorry for Mario Bros though... jeez, it's now more associated with being a filler game found in the Super Mario Advance series (and I think the filler game for the series since at the SNES era).

Oh well, at least the European Nintendo site makes a mention of all the pre NES history, and at least nothing has been as hard hit as the Virtual Boy has (deservably, this practically never shows up on the official websites for Nintendo, for the sole reason of having no real decent games and eye burning graphics).