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The Ultra Machine is a batting toy distributed by Nintendo and designed by Gunpei Yokoi in 1967.

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5-726: The toy is part of Nintendo's Ultra Toy series, which includes the Ultra Hand and the Ultra Scope. It launches soft balls that can be hit with a bat. It sold over a million units and was released elsewhere as the Slugger Mate. Another version, the Ultra Machine Deluxe, was released in 1977. The Ultra Machine appears in as a boss fight in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! and WarioWare: Smooth Moves as

10-637: A minigame. It is in Mario Party 5 , Animal Crossing: New Leaf as a piece of furniture, and in Rusty's Real Deal Baseball . The latter features characters with Ultra Machine-shaped heads. In Splatoon 2 , the Bomb Launcher, a special weapon, resembles the Ultra Machine. This Nintendo -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This toy -related article

15-655: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ultra Hand Ultra Hand is a toy that was manufactured by Nintendo in the late 1960s. It was created in 1966 by Gunpei Yokoi , who would later design the Love Tester , the D-pad , the Game Boy , and the WonderSwan . Ultra Hand consists of several criss-cross-connected plastic elements, and operates on the "lazy tongs" pantograph principle. One end of

20-485: The Ultra Hand has scissor -like handles and is operated like scissors, extending when the handles are pinched together and retracting when they are parted. On the other end of the Ultra Hand are two bowl-shaped grips with which ball -like objects can be gripped when the Ultra Hand is fully extended. Three colored balls were included in the Ultra Hand package, along with stands on which the balls can rest. Ultra Hand

25-500: Was a commercial success, selling more than one million units. It is the first of several toys developed by Yokoi that helped to save the company from financial difficulties. A WiiWare game titled Grill-Off with Ultra Hand! was released in North America on March 31, 2010 as an exclusive to Club Nintendo members. The game features the Ultra Hand stretching out to grab cooked meats from barbecue grills. In single-player mode,

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