Nintendo has released a pair of video games in Japan for the Nintendo DS, Osu!

The game was developed and published by Nintendo, and was released in 1984 in Japan.

* 1983 – The Nintendo Entertainment System, the best-selling game console of its time, is released in Japan.

Kid Icarus, known as in Japan, is an action platform video game for the Famicom Disk System in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe and North America.

A download code was given to users who registered two selected 3DS games with Nintendo in Japan and Europe or pre-ordered Kid Icarus: Uprising in North America from certain retailers before it was released.

Although Nintendo of Japan allowed graphic violence in its video games, nudity and sexuality were strictly prohibited.

In February 2007, Nintendo announced on their Japanese website that Neo Geo games would appear on the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan ; announcements in April and July confirmed placement on the North American Virtual Console, and on October 1, a similar announcement was made for the European Virtual Console.

* Official Nintendo Japan Super Mario Kart site

An American animated series based on the games aired in 1989, and individual manga adaptations which are officially endorsed and commissioned by Nintendo have been produced in Japan since 1997.

The second game, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, was released for the Famicom Disk System in Japan in January 1987, and for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe in November 1988 and North America in December 1988.

Ocarina of Time was re-released on the Nintendo GameCube in 2002, when it was offered as a pre-order incentive for The Wind Waker in the U. S., Canada and Japan.

In November 2004 in Japan and Europe, and January 2005 in America, Nintendo released The Minish Cap for the Game Boy Advance.

Other spin-off titles include Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland for the Nintendo DS – an RPG released in September 2006 in Japan ( Summer of 2007 in the UK ) to star supporting character Tingle.

Here Tingle again stars in this spin-off arcade style platformer, released in April 2007 only in Japan and available solely to Platinum Club Nintendo members.

Nintendo finally decided in 1985 to release its Famicom ( released in 1983 in Japan ) in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ).

** The Nintendo 64 video game system is released in Japan.

Mario Kart: Super Circuit, known in Japan as, is a racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in 2001.

It was re-released again in Japan as a downloadable game for the Super Famicom's and Game Boy's Nintendo Power cartridges.

On July 27, 2011, for the twenty-first anniversary of the initial release, the original Game Boy version was made available on the Nintendo 3DS's Virtual Console service for download in Japan.

Dr. Mario 64 was subsequently released in Japan in the compilation game Nintendo Puzzle Collection on the Nintendo GameCube.

** Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 crashes while landing at Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing 64 of 72 persons on board.

LeMay commanded subsequent B-29 Superfortress combat operations against Japan, including massive incendiary attacks on 64 Japanese cities.

* Official Nintendo Japan Mario Kart 64 site

It was not until the release of Super Mario 64 in 1996 that the name Peach became widely known outside Japan.

Paper Mario, known in Japan as, ( originally known as Super Mario RPG 2 ) is a role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 game console.

Mario Tennis, known in Japan as, is a 2000 sports video game developed by Camelot and Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console.

* Official Nintendo Japan Mario Tennis 64 site

Super Mario 64 was first re-released in Japan on July 18, 1997, as.

* Official Nintendo Japan Super Mario 64 site

* Official Nintendo Japan Super Mario 64 Rumble Pak Support Version site

It was released for the Nintendo 64 in Japan on December 7, 2000, following a North American release on May 7, 2001.

Super Smash Bros., known in Japan as, is a fighting game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

It was first released on the Nintendo 64 only in Japan with a limited 10, 000 unit production run.

In Northern Japan, subsidence of 0. 50 m ( 1. 64 ft ) was observed on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Miyako, Tōhoku, while Rikuzentakata, Iwate measured 0. 84 m ( 2. 75 ft ).

The Commodore MAX Machine, also known as Ultimax in the United States and VC-10 in Germany, was a home computer designed and sold by Commodore International in Japan, beginning in early 1982, a predecessor to the popular Commodore 64.

The Commodore 64 manual mentions the machine by name, suggesting that Commodore intended to sell the machine internationally ; however, it is unclear whether the machine was ever actually sold outside of Japan.

* Tamagotchi 64: Minna de Tamagotchi World — Nintendo 64 ( Japan ), 1997

Systems utilizing the DE9 connector for their game port included the Atari 8-bit and ST lines ; the Commodore VIC-20, 64, 128, and Amiga ; the Amstrad CPC ( which employed daisy-chaining when connecting two Amstrad-specific joysticks ); the MSX, Sharp X68000, and FM-Towns, predominantly used in Japan ; the Sega Master System and Sega Genesis ; and the Panasonic 3DO.

It was one of three launch titles for the Nintendo 64 in Japan as well as Europe and one of two launch titles in North America.

Shigeru Miyamoto, the producer of Pilotwings for the SNES, reprised his role for Pilotwings 64 and oversaw the project from Japan.

Pilotwings 64 was released in Japan on June 23, 1996 as one of three Nintendo 64 launch titles, the other two being Super Mario 64 and Saikyō Habu Shōgi.