Nintendo

is an international company originally founded in Japan on November 6, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. In the mid-twentieth century, the company tried several small niche businesses, such as a love hotel and a taxi company. Over the years, it became a video game company, growing into 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 in Seattle, Washington. Nintendo has also purchased a sizable portion of Gyration Inc, a company specializing in gyros and motion sensors, in 2001. Nintendo's main competitors on the gaming front are Sony and Microsoft, formerly also Sega until 2001.
Nintendo is the company for which more Castlevania games have been featured.
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==Systems==
===Home consoles===
*Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
**Family Computer Disk System (FDS)
*Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
*Nintendo 64 (N64)
*Nintendo GameCube
*Nintendo Wii (Wii)
*Nintendo Wii U (Wii U)
*Nintendo Switch (Switch)
===Handheld consoles===
*Game Boy
*Game Boy Color
*Game Boy Advance
*Nintendo DS
*Nintendo 3DS
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