page_title: History of Nintendo
section_title: Color TV-Game
hierarchical_section_title: History of Nintendo / 1972–present / Color TV-Game
caption_attribution_description: English: Nintendo's "Color TV Game 6" Русский: Видеоприставка Color TV Game 6 производства Nintendo
context_page_description: The history of Nintendo traces back to 1889, when it was founded to produce handmade hanafuda. Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It eventually became one of the most prominent figures in today's video game industry, being the world's largest video game company by revenue.
context_section_description: Nintendo at this time saw how successful video games were and began to dabble in them. Their first step in that field was to secure the rights to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey in Japan in 1975. At the time, home video game consoles were extremely rare—even the seminal like the Atari Pong consoles had yet to be produced. After experiencing reasonable success at this, Nintendo began developing its own video games, both for home and for arcades. In the 1970s, Mitsubishi Electric proposed joint development of "Color TV Game Machine" and Nintendo accepted. In 1977, they released "Color TV Game 6" and "Color TV Game 15" (6 and 15 indicates the number of games).
  
  Their first video arcade game was 1975's EVR Race; a handful of others followed in the next several years, Radar Scope and Donkey Kong being among the most famous of these. The early 1980s saw Nintendo's video game division (led by Yokoi) creating some of its most famous arcade titles. The massively popular Donkey Kong was created in 1981, with Shigeru Miyamoto as its mastermind, and released in the arcades and on the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and ColecoVision video game systems (although Nintendo themselves generally had no involvement with these early console ports). This release method would be used on several later Nintendo arcade games of this same period, including the original Mario Bros. (not to be confused with the later Super Mario Bros.) Nintendo would also become a member of the Japan Amusement Machinery Manufacturers Association (JAMMA), but it would eventually withdraw its membership on February 28, 1989. On July 31, 1992, Nintendo announced it would no longer manufacture arcade equipment.
caption: Nintendo's first video game system, the Color TV Game 6
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