Nintendo

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Nintendo Company
Founded	November 6, 1889
CEO
President	Satoru Iwata
Employees	2,977
Website	Nintendo.com

Nintendo is an international video game company originally founded in Japan on November 6, 1889 by Mr. Fusajiro Yamauchi to make "hanafuda" cards, used in a Japanese playing card game. In the early 1980s, Nintendo became a video game company, growing into one of the most powerful companies in the industry. Nintendo is known as the leader of the portable console market, as well as producing games and putting out home consoles, such as the Nintendo Gamecube. In the past 25 years, Nintendo has release five home consoles- the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Nintendo 64, and the Nintendo GameCube. Nintendo's current home system is the Wii. On the handheld front, Nintendo currently develops games for the Nintendo DS.

Systems

Nintendo Entertainment System
Game Boy
Super Nintendo
Nintendo 64
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo DS
Wii

Ties to Rare

Rare, founded in 1982 by Tim and Chris Stamper, was a second-party developer for the Nintendo gaming platforms for twenty years. The success of Rare's games with Nintendo has shown in such classics as GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, and Perfect Dark. In 2002, Rare was acquired by Microsoft, and have not found the same success as they've had with Nintendo.