Nintendo

***Nintendo*** is a multinational video game publishing company that publishes many series, including the *Super Mario* series, *The Legend of Zelda* series, the *Kirby series,* and the *Metroid* series and manufactures consoles such as the GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS and the Nintendo Switch. Their mascot is none other than Mario.

## Console Wars

Nintendo and Sega's rivalry ignited with the fourth console war, where the Nintendo Entertainment System (or NES for short) was competing against the Sega Master System. Nintendo, before the release of Sega Mega Drive in the video game market was a very immense video game company which was almost entirely monopolized the game industry in North America holding around 90 percent of the market share while Sega continues its struggle to cope with Nintendo unfair marketing technique. Nintendo and Sega's rivalry expanded to four different wars.

* NES vs. Master System (third generation)
* SNES vs. Sega Genesis (fourth generation)
* Nintendo 64 vs. Sega Saturn (fifth generation)
* Nintendo GameCube vs. Sega Dreamcast (sixth generation)

Nintendo and Sega were certainly not alone. During these wars, there were other systems. These include:

* Atari 7800 (8-bit;third generation)
* PC Engine (16-bit; fourth generation)
* Neo Geo AES (16-bit; fourth generation)
* 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (32-bit; fifth generation)
* Atari Jaguar (32-bit); fifth generation)
* PlayStation (32-bit; fifth generation)
* Xbox (64-bit; sixth generation)
* PlayStation 2 (64-bit; sixth generation)

### Crossovers

THQ and Nickelodeon started working to create crossover games between their mascots, Mitchell & Aang. The first game was *Mitchell & Aang at the Olympic Games* for the all gaming consoles including the Wii which featured Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, Zokku, Soki, Ty Lee, Maii, Hiro, Azula and Oazi for Team Aang, and Mitchell, Dr. Marquessa, Gavin, Carolyn, Jennifer, Martin, David, Nicholas, Scottie, Sarah and Amber for Team Mitchell. The popular release caused the recent demand for Mitchell to be in Super Smash Bros. Brawl to grow, and later on, he was confirmed to be in Nicktoons Super Splash Bros, which was also for the Nintendo 64. One year later, THQ released *Mitchell & Aang at the Olympic Winter Games* which, again, was for the Wii, which included all the previous characters, with the addition of two new characters for each team: Commander Zhao and Jet for Team Aang, and Metal Mitchell, and Dusty for Team Mitchell. Then in 2011, THQ and Nickelodeon released *Mitchell & Aang at the London 2012 Olympic Games* which once again, was for the Wii and all home gaming consoles and it had the same characters as *Mitchell & Aang at the Olympic Winter Games*. In 2013, the fourth iteration of the series, *Mitchell & Aang at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games* was released exclusively for the Wii U once again featuring the same characters only by Nordic Games. A fifth installment of the series, *Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games* was announced, released for the Wii U in 2016. An arcade edition of the game was also announced in Japan. Ebony, Jet the Hawk, Pierre, Wave the Swallow, Sticks the Badger, Zavok, Zazz Diddy Kong, Airsailor, Annabelle, [[]], [[]], [[]] and [[]] are new characters to the game.

## List of Consoles

### Home

* Color TV Game
* Nintendo Entertainment System
* Super Nintendo Entertainment System
* Nintendo 64
* Nintendo GameCube
* Wii
* Wii U

### Handheld

* Game & Watch
* Game Boy
* Game Boy Play-It-Loud!
* Game Boy Pocket
* Virtual Boy
* Game Boy Light
* Game Boy Color
* Game Boy Advance
* Nintendo DS
* Nintendo 3DS
* Nintendo Switch

## Features

### Amiibo support

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Amiibo is a line of NFC figurines made by Nintendo. They communicate with compatible Wii U and 3DS titles. Mitchell's own amiibo was released in February 2015. The games that included Mitchell with Amiibo support are:

* *Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U*: Players can train a "Figure Player" to become a powerful fighter and learn new moves and strategies.
* *Mitchell Van Morgan 64 U*: Unlocks a Master Quest edition which adds Wii U-styled stereoscopic features uses for *Mitchell Van Morgan 64* & it uses the same engine and plot of *Mitchell Van Morgan 64*.
* *Mitchell & Aang at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games*: Unlocks the Super Mitchell Mii costume.

## Trivia

* Nintendo had a magazine called *Nintendo Power*, which notably provided the first looks at THQ's very first Nickelodeon title The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckaroo$! for the NES but criticized the poor controls and unengaging game elements.

## Notes

1. ↑ Although Atari marketed the Jaguar as the first 64-bit gaming system, it really isn't a true 64-bit system, same goes with the Nintendo 64. The Jaguar runs on two 32-bit processor named *Tom* and *Jerry*.
Both processor clocked at 26.59 MHz with Tom worked as graphic processor, while Jerry worked as a sound processor. Only the TOM chip had the 64-bit processor. Jaguar also used the Motorola 68000 processor which was also can be founded on inferior, and older 16-bit Sega's Mega Drive console and Commodore Amiga home computer used as a general purpose processor.

## References

1. ↑ Sarkar Patricia, "Biggest Gaming Companies". *GEEKS*. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
2. ↑ Davis, Kevin (8 December 1989). Nintendo Accused of Unfair Marketing. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 22 August 2018.
3. ↑ Ste. Atari Jaguar. *OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum*. Retrieved on 22 August 2018.

## Externl Links

* The official website
* Nintendo at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* Nintendo at Nintendo Wikia