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Nintendo
Type	Public Company
Founded	September 23, 1889
Headquarters	Japan: HQ: Kyoto United States: HQ: Redmond, Washington; Offices: Atlanta, Georgia and San Diego, California Canada: HQ: Richmond, British Columbia; Offices: Toronto, Ontario Europe: HQ: Großostheim, Germany Australia: HQ: Scoresby, Victoria; Offices: Sydney, New South Wales China: HQ: Suzhou (as iQue, Ltd.) Korea: HQ: Koda Mineo Offices: Seoul
Products
Parent Company	N/A
Website	http://www.nintendo.co.jp http://www.nintendo.com http://www.nintendo-europe.com

Nintendo is one of the largest and most successful video game companies to date. It has been developing consoles since 1977's Color TV Game, and has a tradition of supporting these consoles with in-house titles. These titles have included such iconic mascots as Mario, Donkey Kong, Link and Samus Aran. They have been known to create a variety of trademark franchises each generation. The company as we know it--and its entrance into the American video game market--was led by Hiroshi Yamauchi. Nintendo's current president is Satoru Iwata. It's current Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing is Reginald Fils-Aime.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Pre-1980s 1.2 1980s 1.3 1990s 1.4 2000s 2 Hardware Manufacture 2.1 Consoles 2.2 Handheld consoles 2.3 Misc Hardware 3 Software developer/publisher 4 See Also

[edit] History

[edit] Pre-1980s

Before becoming the Video Game giant they are today, Nintendo was as a card manufacturing company in Kyoto in early 1900's and had been founded in 1889. Hiroshi Yamauchi took control of the company in 1949, but the company did not officially step into the business of Video Games until the 1970's through a deal with electronics company, Magnavox. Despite selling this system in Japan, they did not issue any of their own signature consoles until the creation of the Color TV Game and the handheld Game and Watch in the late 70's.

[edit] 1980s

During the early 80's, Nintendo then began to produce arcade games, with famous titles such as Donkey Kong Jr. Their Famicom console was soon debuted in Japan in 1983, and released under the name NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) to other countries in 1985. This system produced many famous franchises and games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. The company finished out the second half of the decade by creating their monthly magazine, Nintendo Power, and releasing one of the best selling game system ever, the Game Boy. The end of the decade also saw the company being convicted of anti-trust activities by stopping third party developers from producing games for other platforms.

[edit] 1990s

The SNES and the N64, Game Boy Pocket, Pokémon, Virtual Boy, and the Sega/Sony competition.

[edit] 2000s

The GameCube, the Microsoft/Sony competition, the Game Boy Advance (SP), the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii.

[edit] Hardware Manufacture

[edit] Consoles

To date, Nintendo has produced the following home consoles:

• The Color TV Game (CTG)
• The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
• The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
• The Nintendo 64 (N64)
• The GameCube (GCN)
• The Nintendo Wii (Wii)

[edit] Handheld consoles

To date, Nintendo has produced the following handheld consoles:

• The Game & Watch
• The Game Boy/Game Boy Pocket Variants (GB)
• The Game Boy Light (GBL) (only in Japan)
• The Game Boy Color (GBC)
• The Game Boy Advance (GBA), along with its evolutions, the Game Boy Advance SP and the Game Boy micro
• The Nintendo DS (DS), along with its evolutions, the Nintendo DS Lite, and the Nintendo DSi

[edit] Misc Hardware

• Virtual Boy
• Triforce Arcade board
• iQue

[edit] Software developer/publisher

[edit] See Also

• List of Nintendo games
• Category:Nintendo Franchise
• Sega

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