Nintendo Company Ltd.

…with its main rival, the Nintendo console, for control of the video game market.

…in 1981 by the Japanese Nintendo Company Ltd., that spawned a popular franchise and helped start the video game revolution of the 1980s. The arcade machine marked the first appearance of Donkey Kong, a rampaging ape who rolled barrels down a series of platforms, and Jumpman, better known as Mario…

…of coin-operated video games, the Nintendo Co., Ltd., and Sega Enterprises Ltd., introduced a new generation of video consoles, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES; 1985) and the Sega Genesis (1989), with graphics that equaled or exceeded the capabilities of personal computers. More important, Nintendo introduced battery-powered storage cartridges that enabled…

…first genuine platform game was Nintendo Company Ltd.’s Donkey Kong (1981), an arcade game in which Jumpman climbed up and down ladders and jumped from platform to platform while eluding a giant ape (Donkey Kong) on his way to rescuing a woman. Jumpman, now renamed Mario and joined by his…

…game console, released by the Nintendo Company of Japan in 2006. Instead of directly competing with rival video consoles, such as the Microsoft Corporation’s Xbox 360 and the Sony Corporation’s PlayStation 3 (PS3), in terms of processing power and graphics display, Nintendo produced an innovative, low-cost console that featured multiplayer…

electronic game series from Nintendo that debuted in Japan in February 1996 as Pokémon Green and Pokémon Red. The franchise later became wildly popular in the United States and around the world. The series, originally produced for the company’s Game Boy line of handheld consoles, was introduced in 1998…

…the Japanese electronic game manufacturer Nintendo Company, Ltd., in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The game, which was based on the arcade game Mario Bros., helped launch one of gaming’s most popular franchises. It stars Mario and Luigi, two Italian plumbers who find themselves in the Mushroom Kingdom…

… released in 2007 by the Nintendo Company Ltd. for their Wii gaming system.

…Eguchi Katsuya and produced by Nintendo for the 2006 launch of the Nintendo Wii video game console. Wii Sports features five individual games that showcase the Wii’s unique motion-sensitive controller, which translates a player’s actual actions with the controller into actions by a character, or avatar, in the game. The…