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Nintendo
Nintendo (Japanese:
History
The company was founded in September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi and produced handmade Hanafuda cards. In 1929, the company was passed on to Yamauchi's son-in-law, Sekiryo Kaneda, who took up the Yamauchi name when he married Fusajiro's daughter, Tei Yamauchi. The company continued to make cards until 1949, when Kaneda decided to retire and pass the business on to his grandson, Hiroshi Yamauchi. However Yamauchi decided to change the focus of the company and expand it to the US in the late 1970's as an arcade game manufacturer. Most games made by the company were not very popular at the time and the company was losing money, so Yamauchi asked one of his employees Shigeru Miyamoto for help in making a new game, a decision that would pay off greatly. This game was none other than Donkey Kong, and it became a best seller and one of the most memorable games of all time. Another employee, Gunpei Yokoi was then brought in to make handheld consoles for playing on the go, thus giving birth to the popular Game & Watch series. In 1983, Nintendo created the Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicon in Japan) and it would forever change the video game development industry.
Home Consoles
- Color TV Game series (1977-1982)
- Nintendo Entertainment System (1983-1994)
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991-2000)
- Nintendo 64 (1996-2002)
- Nintendo GameCube (2001-2007)
- Wii (2006-2012)
- Wii U (2012-present)
Handheld Consoles
- Game & Watch (1980-1991)
- Game Boy (1989-1998)
- Virtual Boy (1995-1996)
- Game Boy Pocket (1996-1998)
- Game Boy Light (1998)
- Game Boy Color (1999-2002)
- Game Boy Advance (2001-2008)
- Game Boy Advance SP (2003-2008)
- Game Boy Micro (2005-2008)
- Nintendo DS (2004-2009)
- Nintendo DS Lite (2006-2009)
- Nintendo DSi (2008-Present)
- Nintendo DSi XL (2009-2011)
- Nintendo 3DS (2011-2012)
- Nintendo 3DS XL (2012-2015)
- Nintendo 2DS (2013-Present)
- New Nintendo 3DS (2015-Present)
- New Nintendo 3DS XL (2015-Present)
See Also
External links
- Official American website
- Official Japanese website
- Official Australian website
- Official UK and Irish website
- Official European "country selector" site
- NintendoWiki article on Nintendo
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Games | Nintendo • Amusement Vision • ND Cube • Suzak |
Anime | 4Kids Entertainment • TV Tokyo |