The first entry in Nintendo's Kid Icarus series, it was published in Japan in December 1986, and in Europe and North America in February and July 1987, respectively.

The Turbografx 16 version of R-Type was one of the first games confirmed for Nintendo's Virtual Console.

It was later re-released for the Game Boy Advance on December 9, 2002, in North America, on a cartridge with Four Swords, the first multiplayer Zelda, and then through Nintendo's Virtual Console service on January 22, 2007.

The next game, Link's Awakening, is the first Zelda for Nintendo's Game Boy handheld, and the first set outside Hyrule and to exclude Princess Zelda.

The Zelda version of Nintendo's Game & Watch series was released first in August 1989 as a dual-screen handheld electronic game similar in appearance to today's Nintendo DS.

It is the third game in Nintendo's Mario Kart series and the first for handheld consoles.

It is also the first Mario Kart game not to be developed by Nintendo EAD ; instead, it was developed by Nintendo's Intelligent Systems division.

Donkey Kong was Mario's first opponent in Nintendo's popular 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong.

Despite a strong start, selling 1 million units in its first year on sale in Japan, neither the Mark III nor its Master System variant ever posed a serious challenge to Nintendo's near-total domination of the Japanese console market.

A precursor to the platform game genre, Crazy Climber was the first game revolving around climbing, specifically climbing buildings, before Nintendo's 1981 release Donkey Kong.

Wario Land features a theme of greed remarkably different from almost all of Nintendo's other franchises: It is the first game Nintendo has made where the main character's cause is decidedly selfish.

It was revealed in an interview on Nintendo's website that Sakaguchi is the director of The Last Story, which marks his first time as director of a game since Final Fantasy V.

At E3 in 1997, Nintendo's main game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, speculated that the first games to be released for the new system would be SimCity 64, Mario Artist, Pocket Monsters, and EarthBound 64.

The first game of the three was demonstrated at Nintendo's SpaceWorld trade show in 1999, under the working title Zelda no Densetsu: Fushigina Kinomi – Chikara no Shō.

Hudson became Nintendo's first third-party software vendor for its Family Computer.

Freddy Krueger's first video game appearance was in the Nintendo's 1989 game A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Red and Blue were ranked first, and called Nintendo's " secret weapon " when the games were brought out for the Game Boy in the late 1990s.

In North America, it was first made available bundled with Metroid Prime Pinball, but is now available through other promotions or as a stand-alone purchase from Nintendo's online store.

The first game was released in Japan on Nintendo's Famicom in 1991.

It included a brief scene that for the first time revealed clearly what Mach Rider looked like, however, unlike Samus from Nintendo's Metroid series, Mach Rider has not been known to remove his helmet.

It was the first three-dimensional Nintendo game, and it included the Super FX chip, a coprocessor used to accelerate graphics display, which became Nintendo's first game to use 3D polygon graphics.

It is the fourth and final release in the Super Mario Advance series, and was first revealed at Nintendo's conference at the E3 2003 convention, containing several enhancements, including the addition of Mario and Luigi's voices by Charles Martinet, the ability to scan e-Cards into Nintendo's e-Reader to add certain content, and a multiplayer mode based on the original arcade game Mario Bros.

SNK signed up to become a third-party licensee for Nintendo's Family Computer ( Famicom ) system in 1985 and opened a second branch in the United States, based in Torrance, California and called SNK Home Entertainment that would handle the North American distribution and marketing of the company's products for home consoles.

On May 1, 2007 Namco sold the rest of the 16 % of shares, making Monolith Soft one of Nintendo's first-party developers.

The character Mametchi makes an appearance in Namco Bandai / Nintendo's Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 as a playable character, along with his pet, Bagubagutchi, as an item.

* In both Mario Kart Arcade GP and Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, arcade versions ( co-developed by Namco ) of Nintendo's popular Mario Kart series of games, Pac-Man appears as a playable character.

Donkey Konga, a GameCube title developed by Namco and released in 2003, achieved widespread success by leveraging Nintendo's Donkey Kong brand.

Mario Kart Arcade GP ( マリオカート アーケードグランプリ ) is an arcade-only iteration of Nintendo's Mario Kart series, developed by Namco.

Developer and publisher Bandai ( now Namco Bandai Games ) used an extensive marketing campaign to compete with Nintendo's Pokémon media franchise, specifically the video games Pokémon Red and Blue.

During 1990, the Lynx had moderate sales but Nintendo's Game Boy continued to gain market share.

After Nintendo's action-adventure Metroid had been finished, more staff members were alloted to the development of Kid Icarus.

Nintendo and Philips had established an agreement to co-develop a CD-ROM enhancement for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System due to licensing disagreements with Nintendo's previous partner Sony ( an agreement that produced a prototype console called the Play Station ).

People who were frustrated with Nintendo's policy of remaking older games for the GBA were pleasantly surprised that not only had Nintendo released a brand new Mario Kart game, but that all of the courses from Super Mario Kart had been included instead of being released as a separate port.

One of Nintendo's affiliates, Pokémon USA, had begun producing a new edition for the game before the last of its agreements with Wizards expired September 30, and Wizards filed suit against Nintendo the following day, October 1, 2003.

As the Famicom had become highly popular in Japan, Kondo was assigned to compose music for the console's subsequent games at Nintendo's new development team, Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development ( EAD ).

There was little hope for the L600, however, for its speculated release date was during the peak of Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 2, and Nintendo's GameCube, and it was just one of the many independently developed systems that would never rise out of obscurity and gain much popularity, as the three aforementioned systems had already secured the home console gaming market.

The company was considered one of Nintendo's key developers and had enough recognition that Nintendo offered them their catalogue of characters to create a 3D CGI game.

It achieved a second-best success to Famicom in Japan, but its release as the TurboGrafx-16 in North America had less market-share than Nintendo's new Super Nintendo and Sega's new Genesis.

Sega initially had a hard time overcoming Nintendo's ubiquitous presence in the American consumer's home.

As a subscription-based ambient / New Age music station, St. GIGA listeners were already equipped with " BS tuners " prior to St. GIGA's contract with Nintendo, however Satellaview owners who lacked a " BS tuner " had to purchase one separately from St. GIGA ( at a price of ¥ 33, 000 ) as well as sign up for Nintendo's and St. GIGA's monthly joint membership fees.

A prominent feature of this game was its pre-rendered graphics, which had become popular in Nintendo's 16-bit hit Donkey Kong Country.

In addition, the initially high suggested retail price of the console may have driven potential customers away, and many early adopters of the system who had paid the initial cost were angered by Nintendo's decision to reduce the cost of the system within a few months of its release.

Despite this, UltraHLE had grown beyond either its authors ' or Nintendo's control.

In order to bypass the Super Nintendo's lockout chip, Wisdom Tree devised a pass-through system similar to the Game Genie, whereby the player had to insert an officially-licensed SNES game into a cartridge slot in the top of Super 3D Noah's Ark.

The TurboGrafx-16's controller was similar to Nintendo's NES controllers, in that it had a D-pad, Start and Select buttons, and two face buttons, labeled " I " & " II ".

As of the end of 1980 and the beginning of 1981, Nintendo's efforts to sell in the North American video game market had failed, culminating with the flop Radar Scope in 1980.

Nintendo's counsel, John Kirby, countered that Universal had themselves argued in a previous case that King Kongs scenario and characters were in the public domain.

However, he denied Nintendo's claim of damages from those licensees who had paid royalties to both Nintendo and Universal.

Since Camerica still lacked license to produce NES games, they had to create their own cartridges that would bypass Nintendo's lock-out chip.

While Brownie Brown has only released video games for Nintendo's handheld video game systems up to this point, the company had previously announced a title for the Nintendo GameCube, named Gofuku, which was scheduled for release in 2005 and was announced alongside Magical Vacation: When the Five Stars Align.

Led by Masayuki Uemura, Nintendo's R & D team had been secretly working on a system since 1980, ambitiously targeted to be less expensive than its competitors, yet with performance that could not be surpassed by its competitors for at least a year.

Geist was Nintendo's E3 2003 surprise, as it was not a new title from one of their old ( er ) franchises and no rumours about it had been going around before the E3 2003.