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Nintendo
Nintendo's logo, which dates back to the 1980s. The current color was adopted in 2005; the previous red version is still used on some properties, mostly in Japan.[1]
Nintendo made many of the most popular and best-selling consoles of all time, like theGame Boy,Nintendo DS,Wii andNintendo Switch. Altogether, Nintendo has sold over 700 million consoles (2018)[5] and over 5 billion games (2022).[6]
Nintendo was formed on September 23, 1889. Originally, they were a company that madeplaying cards. Then it went on to makingtoys. In the 1960s, they started doing other things, such as owninghotels. They began makingvideo games only in the1970s. In 1980, they came out with a hand-held game device calledGame and Watch. Nintendo's first video game console was the Color TV Game.
TheFamicom, Nintendo's second console, was first only released in Japan. It was later released in some other areas, such as North America and Europe. When they released it in there, its name was changed to theNintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short. They also released some popular stand-alone video games, with names like the arcade gameDonkey Kong, and NES gamesSuper Mario Bros.,Duck Hunt, andThe Legend of Zelda. Later, the company made hand-held game consoles such as theGame Boy, theDS, and the3DS, while continuing to make more home consoles such as theNintendo 64,GameCube,Wii,Wii U, andSwitch. Nintendo later sold newer consoles, and a changing point happened with the Nintendo 64, or N64, which made the first Nintendo 3D games. One of its biggest games isSuper Mario 64.
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