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Nintendo
is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business during the 1960s and acquiring a legal status as a public company, Nintendo distributed its first console, the Color TV-Game, in 1977. It gained international recognition with the release of '' Donkey Kong'' in 1981 and the Nintendo Entertainment System and '' Super Mario Bros.'' in 1985. Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, such as the Game Boy, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Nintendo DS, the Wii, and the Switch. It has created numerous major franchises, including ''Mario'', '' Donkey Kong'', ''The Legend of Zelda'', ''Pokémon'', '' Kirby'', ''Metroid'', '' Fire Emblem'', '' Animal Crossing'', '' Splatoon'', '' St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Nintendo Products
The following is a list of products developed and published by Nintendo. Products made by third parties are not included, unless licensed to or distributed by Nintendo. Toys and cards Amiibo Arcade This list consists of dedicated arcade games developed by any of Nintendo's development divisions or published in any region by Nintendo itself. Games for the Nintendo VS. System can be found here and games for the PlayChoice-10 can be found here. Home consoles Below is a comprehensive list of video games published by Nintendo for home video game consoles. Color TV-Game Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom Famicom Disk System Super NES and Super Famicom Satellaview Nintendo Power Nintendo 64 64DD GameCube Wii WiiWare Wii U Handheld consoles Game & Watch Game Boy Virtual Boy Game Boy Color Nintendo Power Game Boy Advance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo
is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business during the 1960s and acquiring a legal status as a public company, Nintendo distributed its first console, the Color TV-Game, in 1977. It gained international recognition with the release of '' Donkey Kong'' in 1981 and the Nintendo Entertainment System and '' Super Mario Bros.'' in 1985. Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, such as the Game Boy, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Nintendo DS, the Wii, and the Switch. It has created numerous major franchises, including ''Mario'', '' Donkey Kong'', ''The Legend of Zelda'', ''Pokémon'', '' Kirby'', ''Metroid'', '' Fire Emblem'', '' Animal Crossing'', '' Splatoon'', '' St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeru Miyamoto
is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in the history of video games, he is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time, including '' Mario,'' '' The Legend of Zelda'', '' Donkey Kong'', ''Star Fox'' and ''Pikmin.'' Born in Sonobe, Japan, Miyamoto graduated from 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 then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi with his toys. He helped create art for the arcade game '' Sheriff'', and was later tasked with designing a new arcade game, leading to the 1981 game '' Donkey Kong''. Miyamoto's platform game '' Super Mario Bros.'' (1985) and the action-adventure game '' The Lege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario (franchise)
is a media franchise, produced and published by video game company Nintendo, created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and starring the fictional Italian plumber Mario. It is primarily a video game franchise, but has extended to other forms of media, including television series, comic books, a 1993 feature film, an upcoming 2023 animated film and theme park attractions. The series' first installment was 1983's ''Mario Bros.'', although Mario had made his first appearance in 1981's '' Donkey Kong,'' and had already been featured in several games of the '' Donkey Kong'' and '' Game & Watch'' series. The ''Mario'' games have been developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Hudson Soft, and AlphaDream. Most ''Mario'' games have been released exclusively for Nintendo's various video game consoles and handhelds, from the third generation onward. The main ''Mario'' subseries is the ''Super Mario'' series of platform games started with 1985's '' Super M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donkey Kong
is a video game franchise created by Shigeru Miyamoto and owned by Nintendo. It follows the adventures of a gorilla named Donkey Kong (character), Donkey Kong and his clan of other Ape, apes and monkeys. The franchise primarily consists of platform games—originally single-screen puzzle game#Action puzzle, action puzzle games and later side-scrolling platformers. The first game was the 1981 arcade game ''Donkey Kong (video game), Donkey Kong'', featuring the eponymous character as the main antagonist in an industrial construction setting and the debut of both the Donkey Kong and Mario characters. The game was a massive success and was followed by two sequels released in 1982 and 1983. In 1994, the franchise was relaunched with the platformer ''Donkey Kong Country'', in which Donkey Kong is antagonized by a variety of anthropomorphic enemies, mainly the Kremlings, a clan of crocodiles led by King K. Rool, who has stolen the Kongs' banana hoard. Games outside the platforming gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirby (series)
''Kirby'' is an action- platform video game series developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo. The series centers around the adventures of a pink hero named 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 platformers with 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 a total of over thirty games, and has sold over 40 million units worldwide, making it one of Ninte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Kart
is a series of racing games developed and published by Nintendo. Players compete in go-kart races while using various power-up items. It features characters and courses from the ''Mario'' series as well as other gaming franchises such as ''The Legend of Zelda'', '' Animal Crossing'', '' F-Zero'' and '' Splatoon.'' The series was launched in 1992 with ''Super Mario Kart'' on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, to critical and commercial success. The ''Mario Kart'' series totals fourteen games, with six on home consoles, three on handheld consoles, four arcade games co-developed with Namco, and one for mobile phones. The latest game in the main series, '' Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit'', was released on the Nintendo Switch in October 2020. Over 164.43 million copies in the series have been sold worldwide. History The first game in the ''Mario Kart'' series is ''Super Mario Kart'' for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992. Its development was overseen by Shi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Emblem
is a fantasy tactical role-playing game franchise developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. First produced and published for the Famicom in 1990, the series currently consists of sixteen core entries and five spinoffs. Gameplay revolves around the tactical movement of characters across grid-based environments, while incorporating a story and characters similar to traditional role-playing video games. A notable aspect of gameplay is the permanent death of characters in battle, removing them from the rest of the game when they are defeated. In newer games, from '' Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem'' onwards, players get to choose between Classic Mode, in which fallen characters remain dead, or Casual Mode, in which fallen characters are revived for the next battle. The series title refers to the "Fire Emblem", a recurring element in the series that is usually portrayed as a royal weapon or shield representing the power of war and dragons. The developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal Crossing
is a social simulation video game series developed and published by Nintendo. The series was conceptualized and created by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami. In ''Animal Crossing'', the player character is a human who lives in a village inhabited by various anthropomorphic animals and can do various activities like fishing, bug catching, and fossil hunting. The series is notable for its open-ended gameplay and use of the video game console's internal clock and calendar to simulate real passage of time. Since its initial release in 2001, five ''Animal Crossing'' games have been released worldwide, one each for the Nintendo 64/ iQue Player (enhanced and reissued for the GameCube), Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch. The series has been both critically and commercially successful and has sold over 72 million units worldwide. Three spin-off games have also been released: '' Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer'' for Nintendo 3DS, '' Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F-Zero
is a series of futuristic racing video games originally created by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, Nintendo EAD with multiple games developed by outside companies. The F-Zero (video game), first game was released for the Super Famicom in Japan in 1990, and along with North America’s Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991; its success prompted Nintendo to create multiple sequels on subsequent gaming consoles. The series is known for its high-speed racing, characters and settings, difficult gameplay, and original music, as well as for pushing technological limits to be one of the fastest racing games. The original title inspired the creation of games such as ''Daytona USA (video game), Daytona USA'' and the Wipeout (video game series), ''Wipeout'' series. The series has been dormant since the release of ''F-Zero Climax'' in 2004 in Japan, although elements of the series have been represented in other Nintendo video games, most notably the ''Super Smash Bros. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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