While Philips and Nintendo never released such a CD-ROM add-on, Philips was still contractually allowed to continue using Nintendo characters.

A series of video games were developed and released for the Philips CD-i in the early 1990s as a product of a compromise between Philips and Nintendo, after the companies failed to develop a CD-based peripheral for the Super Nintendo.

Companies that are current or former ARM licensees include Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent, Apple Inc., AppliedMicro, Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, CSR_plc, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ember, Energy Micro, Freescale, Intel ( through DEC ), LG, Marvell Technology Group, Microsemi, Microsoft, NEC, Nintendo, Nuvoton, Nvidia, Sony, NXP ( formerly Philips Semiconductor ), Oki, ON Semiconductor, Psion, Qualcomm, Renesas, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sharp, Silicon Labs, ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Symbios Logic, Texas Instruments, VLSI Technology, Yamaha, Fuzhou Rockchip, and ZiiLABS.

After allowing Sony to develop a CD-based prototype console for them and a similar failed partnership with Philips, Nintendo decided to make the Nintendo 64 a cartridge-based system like its predecessors.

In the June 1991 issue ( Volume 25 ), Philips was written out of the strip after his real-life counterpart left Nintendo to work for Lucasarts.

Its clients include McDonald ’ s, Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Marlboro, Maytag, Kellogg's, Tampax, Nintendo, Philips, Samsung, Visa, Wrigley ’ s, Hallmark, Allstate Insurance, Procter & Gamble and others.

Nintendo had no problems supplying retailers with the Game Boy for the Christmas season while Atari Corp. only managed limited distribution of their Lynx by year's end.

The V64jr had no CD drive and plugged into the normal cartridge slot on the top of the Nintendo 64.

Despite their work, Nintendo turned them down, saying they had no interest in expanding to the PC market, and that Mario games were to remain exclusive to Nintendo consoles.

He thought that it had " aged in as timeless a manner as many other first-party Nintendo games from the NES era ", and described Kid Icarus as " one of those games that made a lot more sense back in the ' 80s, accompanied by a tips and tricks strategy sheet ".

In terms of its long lasting impact on the video game industry, perhaps the most intriguing aspect is Wyn Holloway's claim that Lucasfilm had their frequent partner Sony lined up to manufacture their version of the system, this being contemporaneous with Sony's development of the SNES-CD for Nintendo, which ultimately led to the first PlayStation.

For many years, Nintendo had a policy of strict content guidelines for video games published on its consoles.

A known side effect of this policy was the Sega Genesis version of Mortal Kombat selling over double the number of the Super NES version, mainly because Nintendo had forced publisher Acclaim to recolor the red blood to look like white sweat and replace some of the more gory graphics in its release of the game, making it non-violent.

Nintendo of America also had guidelines before 1993 that had to be followed by its licensees to make games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, in addition to the above content guidelines:.

* There was a minimum number of cartridges that had to be ordered by the licensee from Nintendo.

The roster of racers has expanded in recent games to include a greater selection of Nintendo characters including some which had not been created at the time of Super Mario Karts release – such as Petey Piranha from Super Mario Sunshine who appeared in Mario Kart Double Dash.

Square was one of the many companies that had planned to develop and publish their games for the Nintendo 64, but with the cheaper costs associated with developing games on CDs for the Sony PlayStation, the games were instead made for PlayStation.

was a shell corporation founded by Square to create video games for the Nintendo GameCube, even though Square had an exclusive deal with Sony Computer Entertainment to create games only for PlayStation consoles.

The original Game Gear pack-in title was Columns, which was similar to the Tetris cartridge that Nintendo had included when it launched the Game Boy.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series, Nintendo of America originally had planned to release a compilation of titles together for the Wii, similar to the collector's edition disc released for the GameCube in 2003.

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.

The game was either ported, remade, or has had a sequel on every Nintendo home console since the NES as well as most portable consoles, including a re-release in 2004 on the Game Boy Advance as part of the Classic NES Series.

TOSE ported both titles from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System ; each had been previously released as individual Japanese PlayStation ports in 1997 ( Final Fantasy IV ) and 1999 ( Chrono Trigger ).

The video-game industry was revitalized a few years later, mostly due to the widespread success of the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ), which was released in North America in and had become extremely popular by.

Mario Party 7, a popular party game for the Nintendo GameCube | GameCube, allows many established Mario ( series ) | Mario characters to compete in minigame s together.

His debut was in Super Mario World ( 1990 ) on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as Mario and Luigi's sidekick ( a role he has often reprised ), and he later established his own series with several platform and puzzle games, including Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

Nintendo eventually established Birdo as female, first in Mario Tennis which depicted Birdo and Yoshi as boyfriend and girlfriend.

The game was developed by The Game Designers Studio, a shell corporation for Square Enix's Product Development Division-2 established for the purpose of creating games for Nintendo consoles within the limits of an exclusivity deal with Sony.

He had the company name changed to Nintendo Karuta and established its new headquarters in Kyoto.

With an already established distribution system into department stores for its playing cards, the transition was a natural one for Nintendo.

In 2002, Nintendo and Hypnotic, a film entertainment company, established a filmmaking contest in which contestants submitted ideas that would be later funded into short films if selected.

Ltd, the Australian subsidiary of Nintendo Co., Ltd is established and opened by Hiroshi Yamauchi and effectively ends Mattel Australia's distribution of Nintendo's products throughout Australia.

Notably, despite being open source, FXT1 was not adopted by Nintendo for the GameCube, nor by Sony for the PlayStation 3, in both cases losing out to the established S3TC standard.

In 1933, Sekiryo established a joint-venture company, and renamed it Yamauchi Nintendo and Co.

Super Smash Bros., known in Japan as, is a series of fighting games published by Nintendo, featuring characters from established video games.

With little press coverage save for a full-page advertisement in Nintendo Fun Club News, the game established itself as a sleeper hit with overseas fans thanks in part to word of mouth.

Mobile21 Co., Ltd. ( モバイルニジュウイチ株式会社 ) was a Japanese video game developer that was a 50 / 50 joint venture between Nintendo and Konami established on October 7, 1999.

Nintendo established a deal with Wal-Mart for the exclusive rights to sell it in the United States.

Nintendo R & D1 established a close relationship with hardware developer Intelligent Systems, and initially worked together on a couple of projects.

It was established in January 1989 in Los Angeles, California, as a subsidiary of the Japan-based CBS / Sony Group ( CSG ) and initially named CSG Imagesoft Inc. Focus at the beginning was on marketing games exclusively for Nintendo consoles.

* Franchises established on Nintendo systems.

* Franchises established on Nintendo systems.