** 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.

* Mario Kart: Double Dash ‼ ( 2003, Nintendo GameCube )

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.

In 2002, Sonic Team USA ported Sonic Adventure 2 to the Nintendo GameCube, the first home console Sonic title to appear on a major non-SEGA system following the cancellation of the Dreamcast.

was released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2003.

* Super Mario Strikers, a 2005 five-a-side soccer game for the Nintendo GameCube

* Super Mario Sunshine, a 2002 platforming video game for the Nintendo GameCube

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 formation of a new company also made it possible to take advantage of Nintendo ’ s Q fund for new game developers who develop for GameCube.

It was the first entry in the sixth generation of video game consoles, preceding its rivals: Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube.

In the Wii version of Twilight Princess, Link is right-handed due to the " mirroring " used to accommodate the right-handed control scheme, which flips the entire game world's layout from that of its Nintendo GameCube counterpart.

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.

When Nintendo revealed the Nintendo GameCube on August 24, 2000, the day before Nintendo's SpaceWorld 2000 exposition, a software demonstration showed a realistically styled real-time duel between Ganondorf and Link.

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.

After these were quickly claimed, Nintendo gave a copy to customers who mailed in proof of purchases from select Nintendo GameCube games.

For multiplayer features, each player must use a Game Boy Advance system linked to the Nintendo GameCube via a Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance cable.

However, the video game adaption of the series released for Super Nintendo featured a final confrontation between King Arthur and Morgana, in the form of a giant dragon, and provided an ending to the series where the Knights football team were able to return back to their own time.

Development is spread out across Sonic Team and Dimps with a HD version for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows and a strict 2D version for the Nintendo 3DS being produced respectively.

The following year, BioWare released Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood on the Nintendo DS, its first title for a handheld game console.

Compilations that include the game are Sonic Jam ( 1997 ) for the Sega Saturn ; Sonic & Knuckles Collection ( 1997 ) and Sonic & Garfield Pack ( 1999 ) for the PC, Sonic Mega Collection ( 2002 ) for the Nintendo GameCube ; Sonic Mega Collection Plus ( 2004 ) for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC ; Sega Genesis Collection ( 2006 ) for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable ; Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection ( 2009 ) for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 ; and Sonic Classic Collection ( 2010 ) for the Nintendo DS.

" Nintendo Power described Sonic Mega Collection as " the ultimate compilation of Sonic adventures.

An enhanced port was released in 2003 as Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut for the Nintendo GameCube and in 2004 for Microsoft Windows.

It is the first multiplatform title in the Sonic series, developed for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox and released in Japan in December 2003, in North America in January 2004 and in Europe in February 2004, later receiving a release for Windows in November 2004.

Chao can be traded between Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut — Nintendo GameCube ports of Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure — and the GBA games featuring a Tiny Chao Garden.

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.

Created with no influence from Nintendo, the games are Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, and Zelda's Adventure.

Two gamebooks were published as part of the Nintendo Adventure Books series by Archway and both written by Matt Wayne.

RPGamer reported in July 2004 that Square was polling die-hard customers, testing the feasibility of porting Final Fantasy Adventure to the Nintendo DS.

He was featured in the Nintendo Adventure Books.

Under the guise of a friendly skateboarder, Wart also makes a minor appearance in the Nintendo Adventure Book Doors to Doom, when Mario and Luigi become lost in Subcon after travelling through a warp zone.

Characters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure were also featured in the 2005 Nintendo DS Weekly Shōnen Jump crossover game Jump Super Stars and its sequel Jump Ultimate Stars, including Jotaro Kujo and Dio Brando as playable characters.

A year later, Nintendo released the sequel, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, for the Disk System.

Two game books were released based on the games as part of the Nintendo You Decide on the Adventure series by Scholastic.

Hudson had recently re-released some of their first hit games for the Nintendo GameCube in Japan, including Adventure Island, Star Soldier, and Lode Runner.

The Game Gear version was included as an unlockable game in Sonic Adventure DX, released for the Nintendo Gamecube in 2003 and PC in 2004.

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link was directed by Tadashi Sugiyama, for whom it was the first project at Nintendo.

The Adventure of Link was re-released in 2003 on the The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition disc for the Nintendo GameCube, and again in 2004 as part of the “ Classic NES Series ” for Game Boy Advance, with changes.

Due to Sega's exit from the video game console manufacturing business, the game was ported to the Nintendo GameCube and re-titled Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, with brand-new features as well as minor changes in the level design.

It is the second Sonic game to be released on a Nintendo console ( having been beaten by 10 days by Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for the Gamecube ).

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

In 2012, Cruz appeared in the first ever Nintendo commercial to promote New Super Mario Bros. 2 and the Nintendo 3DS XL in which she played the role of Mario in the ad.

* Pokémon Stadium 2, a Nintendo 64 video game

* The MIPS line, ( at one point used in many SGI computers ) and now in the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Nintendo 64, PlayStation Portable game consoles, and residential gateways like Linksys WRT54G series.

* Super Mario Galaxy 2, a 2010 3D platforming video game sequel for the Nintendo Wii

* Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, a 1992 platforming video game for the Nintendo Game Boy

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.

In September 2003, Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Microsoft Windows.

As the game was extremely popular, it was regularly released for other platforms including Windows-and Macintosh-based computers, Atari Jaguar, Mega Drive / Genesis, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Nokia N-Gage, SNES, PlayStation and PlayStation 2, Sega Saturn, Microsoft Pocket PC, and Xbox.

In 2003, Worms 3D was released for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Macintosh, Windows, and Xbox.

In the Nintendo Game Boy Advance game, Golden Sun, and its sequel Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Atalanta ( the Heavenly Huntress ) is a second-level Jupiter element Summon that requires the use of 2 Jupiter Djinn to summon.

A simplified version of Dr. Mario also appears in the Nintendo DS game Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!

** 6th generation: PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo Gamecube

Following the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, the industry began recovering, with annual sales exceeding $ 2. 3 billion by 1988, with 70 % of the market dominated by Nintendo.

The game was released on January 27, 2009 for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS and Wii platforms and contains features such as playing as Coraline, interacting with other characters, and playing minigames.

* The Super Nintendo action RPG " Equinox " ( also known as Solstice 2 ) credits Alan Smithee as director.

Their review of Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 criticizes it more so than in the review of Super Mario Advance 2, because Nintendo chose to remove several mini-games found in the Super NES version of that game and replace them with an identical version of the Mario Bros. game found in previous versions.