Nintendo

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Nintendo is commonly known as one of the major video game hardware and software manufacturers in the world.

Origins

Nintendo got its start in Japan in 1889, as a company manufacturing cards for Hanafuda, a Japanese card game. In the 1960s, it diversified into a number of ultimately unsuccessful product lines, including a toy company. In the 1970s, it moved into electronic gaming, where it was ultimately successful.

In 1981, it created the popular arcade game "Donkey Kong", which brought it international attention, and introduced Nintendo to the American market. Nintendo's products in the United States are released through Nintendo of America, their American subsidiary. They are largely responsible for saving the console video game industry after the video game crash of 1983 with the creation of the Famicom (Known as the Nintendo Entertainment System outside of Japan).

The word 'Nintendo' (任天堂株式会社) is said by the companies own sources to literally translate to 'leave luck to heaven'[1]. The term has its origins in gambling done with Hanafuda cards.

Early restrictions on content

Before the days of ESRB video game ratings, Nintendo maintained a strict policy banning the inclusion of pornography in games made for it's consoles as they feared "their name would be forever tarnished." Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe also banned games containing blood, graphic or domestic violence, drug use, and political messages. However, NOA and NOE also were alleged to ban religious symbols in games, although in Legend of Zelda symbols religious symbols were still shown. These policies vanished when ESRB started rating video games.

Nintendo Video game systems

 
An unlicensed NES game cartridge.
  • NES - Nintendo Entertainment System.
  • Game Boy - A classic handheld games console.
  • SNES - Super Nintendo, a 16-bit console.
  • Virtual Boy - A mobile system which utilised 2 screens to provide a 3D view.
  • N64 - Nintendo 64, Nintendo's first 64bit console.
  • GBC - Game Boy Color, evolution of the original with a color screen.
  • GBA - Game Boy Advance, a 32bit handheld.
  • GBA SP- Game Boy Advance SP, an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance.
  • Gamecube - Nintendo's entry to the 128bit console war with Sony's PS2 (Playstation2) & Microsoft Xbox.
  • DS - An innovative 64bit handheld.
  • DS Lite - Nintendo DS Lite, an improved version of the original.
  • DSi - vastly improved version of the DS, with a completly updated Operating System and featuring, two cameras, downloadable content available for free or real world money (includes a free internet web

browser), and an SD card expansion slot.

  • Wii - Nintendo Wii, an innovative game console, and Nintendo's latest offering, with sales exceeding expectations against stiff competition between the Xbox 360 & Playstation 3.[2]
  • Nintendo 3DS- New version of the DS with 3D graphic capabilities and new game library with DS backward compatibility

The Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly known as the NES for short and as the Famicom (short for Family Computer) in Japan, is an 8-bit video game console manufactured by the Japanese company Nintendo, first released in 1985. In Japan later on, an upgrade called the Famicom Disk System was released. The NES was released by Hyundai in South Korea as the Comboy. The NES was the first console released by Nintendo and was the best selling console of its time. Nintendo released the NES after successes in the arcade with games such as Donkey Kong and Popeye. The NES is known for revitalizing the video game industry after its 1983 crash. The NES came with a copy of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt.

The main competitor of the NES was Sega who, after the Genesis was released, created a promotional campaign Genesis Does What Nintendon't. Soon after that, Nintendo released the SNES.

Unlicensed clones, dubbed Famiclones, are sold due to the lack of original hardware remaining. The first Famiclones were illegal and sold while the NES was produced in markets where the NES was not introduced. They were introduced in North America by companies such as Yobo and Retro Duo and are considered legitimate, due to NES hardware patents expiring. They have mixed compatibility rates, but Yobo and Retro Duo units function well.


Notable Games

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES, Super NES or Super Nintendo for short), known as the Super Famicom in Japan, and the Super Comboy in South Korea is a 16-bit video game console first released in 1991 by Nintendo. It was the successor to the company's Nintendo Entertainment System and predecessor to the Nintendo 64. Although the hardware is extremely similar, each have a regional lockout chip to prevent a console from one region from playing games from another. The SNES was the best-selling console of the 16-bit era of video games, despite having a late start against its main competitor, the Sega Genesis.

Notable Games

The Nintendo 64 is a gaming console released by Nintendo in 1996. The console gained acute popularity with first-party titles. The Nintendo 64 was the third home console released by Nintendo and succeeded the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The console's main competitor was the Sony PlayStation, and it had a major advantage over the N64 because the PlayStation used discs rather than cartridges like the N64 and garnered much more third-party support. Despite this, Nintendo produced some of their most notable gaming classics for this system.

Notable series of Videogames by Nintendo

See also

References

  1. ↑ Touch Generations: What Nintendo Means
  2. ↑ http://nexgenwars.com/
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