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Sony was Nintendo's main competition after Sega exited the console industry due to the financial failure of the Dreamcast. [52] The first Sonic the Hedgehog game on a Nintendo system was Sonic Advance for the Game Boy Advance in 2002. [53] More details on the Dolphin, then renamed GameCube, were revealed at the SpaceWorld event in August 2000.
Nintendo's first electronic games are arcade games. EVR Race (1975) was the company's first electromechanical game, and Donkey Kong (1981) was the first platform game in history. Since then, both Nintendo and other development companies have produced and distributed an extensive catalog of video games for Nintendo's consoles.
The Game Boy is the first handheld game console sold by Nintendo that features interchangeable ROM cartridges for each game, unlike the Game & Watch that has a different system for each game. Released in 1989 in Japan, it is one of the world's best-selling game console lines, with over 100 million units sold worldwide. [ 6 ]
The Color TV-Game [a] is the first video game system ever made by Nintendo. The system was released as a series of five dedicated home video game consoles between 1977 and 1983 in Japan only. Nintendo sold three million units of the first four models: one million units of each of the first two models, Color TV-Game 6 and 15; and half a million ...
The Nintendo Entertainment System has a library of 1376 [a] officially licensed games released for the Japanese version, the Family Computer (Famicom), and its international counterpart, the NES, during their lifespans, plus 7 official multicarts and 2 championship cartridges. Of these, 672 were released exclusively in Japan, 187 were released ...
Nintendo's strong positive reputation in the arcades generated significant interest in the NES. It also gave Nintendo the opportunity to test new games as VS. Paks in the arcades, to determine which games to release for the NES launch. Nintendo's software strategy was to first release games for the Famicom, then the VS. System, and then for the ...
Spread across three main buildings, Japan’s new Nintendo Museum takes visitors through the company’s 135-year history with an exhaustive exhibition that includes rare consoles and prototypes.
Nintendo R&D1 [1] Hachi no Su Game: 1971 Nintendo R&D1 [1] Hopping Game: 1971 Nintendo R&D1 [1] Kaijū Copy: 1971 Nintendo R&D1 [1] Kōsen Denwa LT: 1971 Nintendo R&D1 [1] Kōsenjū Custom Lever Action Rifle: 1971 Nintendo R&D1 [1] Kōsenjū Custom Target: 1971 Nintendo R&D1 [1] Kōsenjū SP Electro Poker: 1971 Nintendo R&D1 [1] Mini Game: 1971 ...