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Nintendo
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles. The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the company to produce handmade ''hanafuda'' playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business and becoming a public company, Nintendo began producing toys in the 1960s, and later video games. Nintendo developed its first arcade games in the 1970s, and distributed its first system, the Color TV-Game in 1977. The company became internationally dominant in the 1980s after the arcade release of ''Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong'' (1981) and the Nintendo Entertainment System, which launched outside of Japan alongside ''Super Mario Bros.'' in 1985. Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, including the Game Boy (1989), the Super Nintendo Entertainment Syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Nintendo Products
The following is a list of products either developed or published by Nintendo. Toys and playing cards Amiibo Arcade products Color TV-Game Game & Watch NES/Famicom Famicom Disk System Game Boy Super NES/Super Famicom Satellaview Nintendo Power Virtual Boy Nintendo 64 64DD Game Boy Color Nintendo Power Game Boy Advance e-Reader GameCube Pokémon Mini Nintendo DS DSiWare Wii WiiWare Nintendo 3DS eShop Wii U eShop Nintendo Switch eShop Nintendo Switch 2 eShop iOS/Android Hardware Web Officially-licensed without direct Nintendo involvement There have been several commercially released video games officially licensed to use List of Nintendo franchises, Nintendo-owned intellectual properties without the company or one of its subsidiaries being involved in the game's p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Of Zelda
is a media franchise, video game series created by the Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. It is primarily developed and published by Nintendo; some portable installments and re-releases have been outsourced to Flagship (company), Flagship, Vanpool (company), Vanpool, Grezzo, and Tantalus Media. The series centers on the various incarnations of Link (The Legend of Zelda), Link, a courageous young man of the elf-like Hylian race, and Princess Zelda, a princess within the bloodline of the Hylia (The Legend of Zelda), goddess Hylia, as they fight to save the land of Universe of The Legend of Zelda#Hyrule, Hyrule from Ganon, an evil warlord turned demon king, who is the principal antagonist of the series. Ganon wishes to use the Triforce, a sacred relic left behind by the three goddesses that created Hyrule, to remake the world in his own dark image. When gathered together, the power of the Triforce can grant any wish its user desires, but if someone with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donkey Kong
is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. It follows the adventures of Donkey Kong (character), Donkey Kong, a large, powerful gorilla, and other members of the List of Donkey Kong characters#Kongs, Kong family of apes. List of Donkey Kong video games, ''Donkey Kong'' games include the original arcade game trilogy by Nintendo R&D1; the ''Donkey Kong Country'' series by Rare (company), Rare and Retro Studios; and the ''Mario vs. Donkey Kong'' series by Nintendo Software Technology. Various studios have developed Spin-off (media), spin-offs in genres such as edutainment, puzzle video game, puzzle, racing game, racing, and Rhythm game, rhythm. The franchise also incorporates animation, printed media, theme parks, and merchandise. Miyamoto designed the original 1981 ''Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong'' to repurpose unsold arcade cabinets following the failure of ''Radar Scope'' (1980). It was a major s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeru Miyamoto
is a Japanese video game designer, video game producer, producer and Creative director#Video games, game director at Nintendo, where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in video games, he is the creator of some of the List of video games considered the best, most acclaimed and List of best-selling video game franchises, best-selling game franchises of all time, including ''Mario (franchise), Mario,'' ''The Legend of Zelda'', ''Donkey Kong'', ''Star Fox'' and ''Pikmin''. More than 1 billion copies of games featuring franchises created by Miyamoto have been sold. Born in Sonobe, Kyoto, Miyamoto graduated from Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts. He originally sought a career as a manga artist, until developing an interest in video games. With the help of his father, he joined Nintendo in 1977 after impressing the presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirby (series)
''Kirby'' is an Action game, action-Platform game, platform video game series developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo. The series centers around the adventures of Kirby (character), Kirby as he fights to protect and save his home on the distant Planet Popstar from a variety of threats. The majority of the games in the series are Side-scrolling video game, side-scrolling platformers with Puzzle video game, puzzle-solving and beat 'em up elements. Kirby has the ability to inhale enemies and objects into his mouth, spitting them out as a projectile or eating them. If he inhales certain enemies, he can gain the powers or properties of that enemy manifesting as a new weapon or power-up called a Copy Ability. The series is intended to be easy to pick up and play even for people unfamiliar with action games, while at the same time offering additional challenge and depth for more experienced players to come back to. The ''Kirby'' series includes List of Kirby games, 39 game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
