** The Wii is backward compatible with all games from the Nintendo GameCube, due to its being based on the PowerPC, the same base as the latter ; however, a " Family Edition " model released in North America and Europe in late 2011 removes GameCube support.

Due to concerns from Nintendo of America, the Super NES version was modified to not include any swastikas or Nazi references ; furthermore, blood was replaced with sweat to make the game seem less violent, and the attack dogs in the game were replaced by giant mutant rats.

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.

Nintendo of America is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team.

Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe went further in that games released for Nintendo consoles could not feature nudity, sexuality, profanity ( including racism, sexism or slurs ), blood, graphic or domestic violence, drugs, political messages or religious symbols ( with the exception of widely unpracticed religions, such as the Greek Pantheon ).

The only clear-set rule is that ESRB AO-rated games will not be licensed on Nintendo consoles in North America, a practice which is also enforced by Sony and Microsoft, its two greatest competitors in the present market.

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:.

The gold starburst seal was first used by Nintendo of America, and later Nintendo of Europe.

Redmond is best known as the home of Microsoft ( for which Redmond has become a metonym ) and Nintendo of America.

Owned by Nintendo of America, the Mariners are one of three Major League Baseball teams under corporate ownership ; the other two are the Atlanta Braves and the Toronto Blue Jays.

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.

This compilation was never sold commercially, and originally could only be obtained by purchasing a GameCube bundled with the disc, ( in North America, Europe and Australia ), by registering a GameCube and two games at Nintendo. com, or by subscribing or renewing a subscription to Nintendo Power ( in North America ) or Club Nintendo in Sweden.

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

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.

At E3 2010, a tech demo titled " Classic Games " was unveiled, showing multiple Nintendo games being played on the Nintendo 3DS with enhanced 3D features.

Nintendo first unveiled the game at the E3 conference of 2003, where eight mini-games were available in a playable demonstration.

Pilotwings 64 was one of thirteen Nintendo 64 games shown at Nintendo Space World in November 1995 when the console was first unveiled to the public as the " Ultra 64 ".

In November 2008 The Redknapp Family were also unveiled as the Nintendo Wii Family for their Christmas 2008 Advertising Campaign followed by The Louise Redknapp Nintendo Wii Fit Campaign in March 2009.

At the 1995 Shoshinkai show, games in two of Nintendo's most familiar series were unveiled to the public, along with a short test of the Nintendo 64 console ; Zelda 64, the working title for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Super Mario 64.

IGN published another article on June 14, 2004, saying that Nintendo had officially unveiled the next entry in its Fire Emblem series.

The Game Boy line ( including Game Boy Advance for Ambassadors ) has made a retro return via the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console.

* Super Mario Kart ( 1992, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Virtual Console )

* Mario Kart 64 ( 1996, Nintendo 64, Virtual Console )

Nintendo promised that Virtual Boy would " Totally immerse players into their own private universe.

Even with cost-saving measures in place, Nintendo priced the Virtual Boy at a relatively high US $ 180.

However, Nintendo pushed the Virtual Boy to market so that it could focus development resources on the Nintendo 64.

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.

NeoGeo games released on the Virtual Console cost 900 Nintendo Points in all regions which is currently $ 9. 00 USD.

On March 2, 2011, Nintendo announced that their 3DS Virtual Console service on the Nintendo eShop will feature games from Game Gear, which launched a year later on March 15, 2012.

Sega's chief competitor, Nintendo, would go on to release the ill-fated Virtual Boy in 1995.

In addition, Nintendo celebrated the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda game by releasing a Zelda game for all its current consoles in 2011: Link's Awakening in the 3DS's Virtual Console on June 7, Ocarina of Time 3D for the 3DS on mid-June, Four Swords Anniversary Edition on September 28, 2011 to February 20, 2012 as a free DSiWare download and Skyward Sword for the Wii, which was released on November 18, 2011 in Europe, November 20, 2011 in the United States and November 24, 2011 in Australia.

On July 28, 2011, Nintendo announced that Mario Kart: Super Circuit, as well as nine other Game Boy Advance games, will be available to limited Nintendo 3DS owners, via Virtual Console, to whom will participate in the Ambassador Program after Nintendo officially issued a price-cut to the Nintendo 3DS starting August 12, 2011.

A Virtual Boy version, simply titled " Faceball " was under development, until Nintendo decided to quit manufacturing the Virtual Boy.

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.

The games were released for the Virtual Boy and produced by Nintendo.

The original version of the game has not been released on the Wii Virtual Console, but Nintendo has engaged with remakes of the title.

Also, a new version of Asteroids was developed for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Windows, and the Game Boy Color in the late 1990s.

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 Nintendo DS and the Nintendo DS Lite are backward compatible with all Game Boy Advance games.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

* Bubble Bobble Part 2 ( 1993 Nintendo Famicom, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy )

The Game Boy Pocket Printer, a thermal printer released as a peripheral for the Nintendo Game Boy

Doom became a " killer app " that all capable consoles and operating systems were expected to have, and versions of Doom have subsequently been released for the following systems: DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Super NES, Sega 32X, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Symbian OS, RISC OS, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Tapwave Zodiac, 3DO, Xbox, and Xbox Live Arcade.

The technical specifications of the original Game Boy Advance are, as provided by Nintendo:

No cartridges made for any system earlier than a Game Boy Advance will function in the Nintendo DS or Nintendo DS Lite, and nothing earlier than a DS card will function in a Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DSi XL, or Nintendo 3DS.

A sequel to this game was released for the Game Boy in 1991, and a third entry to the series was published for the Nintendo 3DS handheld console in March 2012.

For example, Konami was forced to remove all references to cigarettes in the 2000 Game Boy Color game Metal Gear Solid ( although the previous NES version of Metal Gear and the subsequent GameCube game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes both included such references, as did Wii title MadWorld ), and maiming and blood were removed from the Nintendo 64 port of Cruis ' n USA.