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Nintendo
Nintendo is the greatest video gaming company of all time, particularly if you are Japanese, American, Korean (unless reminded that Nintendo is Japanese), Chinese (to the point of piracy, in fact), or Taiwanese. Some random Europeans disagree, but nobody cares.
Also, they've been around for over 100 years, although in their older days, they used to make Hanafuda cards, and eventually English-style 52-card decks, both of which are still produced in Japan.
Nintendo despite having loved franchises such as Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pokémon and others is also a company very known for their shady practices. One is that in the mid '80s, they forced most of the leading publishers and developers (such as Capcom, Konami, Technos, Atari/Tengen, and even Namco.) to sign a vicious contract that won't allow them to develop on any other console.
Then again they did make Super Mario Bros. 3 and Punch-Out!!, so yeah...
Oh, I almost forgot to mention that Nintendo is the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners. Yeah, that Seattle Mariners team that used to have Ken Griffey Jr., and now currently has Ichiro Suzuki.
Games & Series Made/Published By Nintendo
- Super Mario Bros.
- The Legend of Zelda
- Metroid
- Metroid Prime Trilogy
- Kirby
- Adventures of Lolo
- Pokémon
- Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition/Pokémon Conquest (Looks like Nintendo's taking the Capcom approach here.)
- Elite Beat Agents/Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!
- Rhythm Heaven
- Mario & Wario
- Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!
- Wario Land (Series)
- Fire Emblem
- Earthbound/Mother
- Nintendogs
- Ice Climber(s)
- Mario Artist
- Brain Age
- Big Brain Academy
- Wii Sports/Sports Resort/Play/Play: MotionFit/Fit Plus/Fit U/Party/Music/Chess (Chess only in Japan & Europe.)
- Punch-Out!!
- Advance Wars/Famicom Wars (Series)
- The Legendary Sta(r)fy (
A Japanese only series.A formerly Japanese only series that finally found a way to come to the U.S.A. and Europe with their recent game for the Nintendo DS. All games developed by Tose.) - Donkey Kong (Despite owning the character, most DK games are developed by different companies, such as Paon, Rareware, or even Retro Studios.)
- ExciteBike
- Super Smash Bros.
- Professor Layton
- F-Zero
- Star Fox
- Pilotwings (Series)
- The Game & Watch Series
- Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak (Seriously, they actually made this.)
- Mickey & Donald (They also did this too.)
- Chibi-Robo
- Trace Memory/Another Code
- Animal Crossing
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Seriously, they actually published a horror game once.)
- Geist (They also made a FPS that tried to become a "Halo Killer", but it failed miserably.)
- 1080° Snowboarding
- Wave Race
- GoldenEye 007 (Was published by Nintendo, but made by Rareware.)
- Mario Kart
- Dr. Mario
- Kid Icarus
- Nazo no Murasame Jō (Obviously only made in Japan.)
- StarTropics
- Balloon Fighter
- Tetris
- Sin & Punishment
- Paper Mario
- Disaster: Day of Crisis (Not released in the U.S.A.)
- Steel Diver
- Pandora's Tower
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- The Last Story (Not published by them in the U.S.A.)
- Radar Scope (most cabinets outside of Japan were converted to Donkey Kong cabinets)
- Sheriff (released by SEGA in the United States)
- Ken Griffey Jr.'s Baseball Series (Seriously, they published 4 different baseball video games showing off the awesomeness of Ken Griffey Jr. Hell, they probably would've made more games dedicated to him had he decided to stay with Seattle instead of trying to follow his dad's footsteps and play for the Cincinnati Reds.)
- Nintendo Land (Contains attractions from big names like Mario & Zelda to lesser known titles like Nazo no Murasame Jō and the Game & Watch series. Not an actual theme park.)
Systems Released by Nintendo
- Colour TV Game 6 (1977 {Japan only})
- Colour TV Game 15 (1978 {Japan only})
- Racing Wheel 112 (1978 {Japan only})
- Colour TV Game Block Breaker (1979 {Japan only})
- Computer TV Game (19xx {Japan only})
- The Game & Watch series of LCD games (1980-1989)
- Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System/Hyundai Comboy (JP:1983/US:1985/Can and Eur:1986/UK and AUS:1987/Korea:1989)
- Famicom Disk System (1986 {Japan only})
- Game Boy(1989/1990)
- Super Famicom/Super NES/Super Comboy (1990/1991/1992)
- Virtual Boy (1995)
- Game Boy Pocket (1996)
- Nintendo 64 (JP/US:1996 Eur:1997)
- Game Boy Light (1998 {Japan only})
- Game Boy Color (1998)
- Game Boy Advance (2000)
- Nintendo Gamecube (2001)
- Game Boy Advance SP (2003)
- Nintendo DS (JP/US:2004 Eur:2005)
- Nintendo DS Lite (2006)
- Nintendo Wii (2006)
- Nintendo DSi (2008/2009)
- Nintendo DSi LL/Nintendo DSi XL (2009/2010)
- Nintendo 3DS (2011)
- Nintendo 3DS XL (2012)
- Nintendo Wii-U (2012) [No, really.]
- Nintendo 2DS (2013) [No, its not a new system, its just a 3DS without the 3D thingy. Seriously.]
