Nintendo Company, Limited. is an international corporation located in Kyoto, Japan and founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi as a handmade hanafuda card producer. Before they moved into the video game industry they had tried many business ventures, including a cab company and a love hotel. But video game development is the most successful, and now are one of the most influential companies in the video game industry and Japan's third biggest company[1], as well as the fifth largest software company worldwide[2] and have sold over 470 million consoles and 2.7 billion games (as of October 02, 2008)[3]. Nintendo are currently best known for there Wii and DS platforms, and their characters such as Mario. The name Nintendo translated into English means "Leave luck to Heaven".[4] Nintendo is currently the longest surviving console manufacturer in the world.
History
GameCube
Wii
Wii U
Wii Games Developed
- 100-Go de Start! Eikaiwa
- Animal Crossing: City Folk
- Another Code R: A Journey Into Lost Memories
- Battalion Wars 2
- Big Brian Academy: Wii Degree
- Captain Rainbow
- Cosmic Walker
- Disaster: Day of Crisis
- Donkey Kong Barrel Blast
- Donkey Kong Country Returns
- Dynamic
- Dynamic Zan
- Endless Ocean
- Endless Ocean 2
- Everyone's the Star on the NHK Red-and-White Quiz Battle
- ExciteBots: Trick Racing
- Excite Truck
- Eyeshield 21: Field Saikyō no Senshi
- Fatal Frame IV
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
- Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquillity
- Jungle Speed
- Kensax
- Line Attack Heroes
- Link's Crossbow Training
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
- Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
- Mario Kart Wii
- Mario Party 8
- Mario Party 9
- Mario Strikers Charged
- Mario Super Sluggers
- Metorid: Other M
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Metroid Prime Trilogy
- Minna no Joushiki Ryoku TV
- Monado: Beginning of the World
- Chibi-Robo (New Play Control!)
- Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
- Mario Power Tennis (New Play Control!)
- Metroid Prime (New Play Control!)
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (New Play Control!)
- Pikmin (New Play Control!)
- Pikmin 2 (New Play Control!)
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii
- Pokémon Battle Revolution
- PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure
- PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond
- Punch-Out!!
- Sin and Punishment 2
- Span Smasher
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Super Paper Mario
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Tact of Magic
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- WarioWare: Smooth Moves
- Wario Land: Shake It!
- Wii Chess
- Wii Fit
- Wii Fit Plus
- Wii Music
- Wii Party
- Wii Play
- Wii Sports
- Wii Sports Resort
- Wii Vitality Sensor
Key People
Some of the important people who work for Nintendo include:
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Takashi Tezuka
- Soto Haka
- Cimsai Kaytnhem
- Shigoinhg Loveia
- Hamewu Yousihgi
- Bhinya Hanenene
- Yasuko Miyamoto (Shigeru Miyamoto's wife)
- Gunpei Yokoi (died 1997 in a car accident)
- Satoru Iwata