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{{quote|''"My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games."''|'''Reggie Fils-Aime''', President of Nintendo of America, [[E3]] 2004}}
Nintendo is the world's most widely known video game company. Having been a major player in the video game industry since the late 1970s, Nintendo's influence on the video game industry has been both widespread and undeniable. Like every company, they've had their ups and downs, and are currently on a rather large "up", thanks in no small part to the runaway success of the
Although Nintendo started making [[Video Games|the products it's most well known for]] in the 1970s, it was making things before that. These guys have been around for a while. Actually, a ''[[Older Than They Think|really long]]'' while: Nintendo dates to 1889, when the company founder Fusajiro Yamauchi created playing cards called ''hanafuda''. The business was successful enough to create sufficient demand, and Nintendo had modest expansion through much of the 20th century (Nintendo continues to manufacture hanafuda, together with playing cards, [[Shogi]] and [[Go]] to this day).
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* ''[[Pushmo]]''
* ''[[Rhythm Heaven]]''
* ''[[Ring Fit Adventure]]''
* ''[[Sin and Punishment]]''
* ''[[Splatoon]]''
* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]''
* ''[[StarTropics]]''
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* ''[[Swap Note]]''
* ''[[Trace Memory]]''
* ''[[Wii Fit]]''
* ''[[Wii Sports]]''
** ''[[Wii Sports Resort]]''
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