Nintendo

Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂; {{Template:nasdaq|NTDOF}}, {{Template:tyo|7974}}) was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. Over the years, it became a video game company, one of the most powerful in the industry. Aside from video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team.

Other hardware

• Game & Watch
• Super Game Boy ? Adapter for playing Game Boy games on the Super NES.
• Virtual Boy ? The Virtual Boy used a red monochrome 3D virtual reality like system. Fewer than two dozen games were released for it in the United States.
• Nintendo 64DD ? Only released in Japan, this add-on system's games are on re-writeable magnetic disks. Games released include a paint and 3D construction package, F-Zero X Expansion Kit, for creating new F-Zero X tracks and a few others. A complete commercial failure, many speculated that Nintendo released it only to save face after promoting it pre-emptively for years.
• Pokémon Mini ? Unveiled in London at Christmas 2000, the Pokémon mini was Nintendo's cheapest console ever produced; with games costing £10 ($15) each, and the system costing £30 ($45). This remains the smallest games console ever made (with the possible exception of the upcoming Game Boy Micro). Sales of this system were rather poor, but it is not a flop because Nintendo did make a profit on every game and system sold.
• Triforce – An arcade system based on Nintendo GameCube hardware, developed in partnership with Sega and Namco.
• Game Boy Player ? An adapter for playing Game Boy games on the GameCube.
• iQue Player ? a version of the Nintendo 64, with double the clock speed and downloadable games, released only in the Chinese market.