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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Basic timeline of Nintendo

This post is a basic timeline of Nintendo. There are 28 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Fusajiro Yamauchi founds Yamauchi Nintendo to sell hanafuda cards (1889)
• Renamed to Nintendo Karuta (1950)
• Begins producing plastic playing cards (1953)
• Agreement to use Disney characters on playing cards (1959)
• Renamed to Nintendo (1963)
• Ultra Hand toy (1966)
• Ultra Machine toy (1967)
• Nintendo Beam Gun (1970)
• Color Game TV (1977)
• Game & Watch (1980)
• Donkey Kong (1981)
• Mario Bros. (1983)
• Super Mario Bros. (1983)
• Nintendo Entertainment System (1983)
• The Legend of Zelda (1986)
• Game Boy (1989)
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991)
• Pokémon (1995)
• Nintendo 64 (1996)
• Game Boy Color (1998)
• Zelda Ocarina of Time (1998)
• Game Boy Advance (2001)
• GameCube (2001)
• Nintendo DS (2004)
• Wii (2006)
• Nintendo 3DS (2011)
• Wii U (2012)
• Nintendo Switch (2016)