Nintendo Research Paper

History of Nintendo

Who would've thought a little game company called Nintendo, in the 1980’s, would “say one day this company would be huge worldwide corporation.” Their rise to greatness started in 1986 with the Nintendo Entertainment System. As the years went on and still going strong, and grew into a great company even with hurdles in their way. Here is the history of Nintendo.

It all started with an idea for a home console from a man known as Uemura Masayuki. His idea was made in reality and was named the Famicom and release in japan on the year 1983 in July. The famicom gaining fame in japan grabbed the attention of america, and in the year 1986 in February we got the Famicom or as we american know it the Nintendo Entertainment system

franchise went on to generate numerous sequels on the NES and other consoles. Another landmark title, The Legend of Zelda, also spawned many sequels.” ( "Nintendo console." Britannica School.Encyclopædia ) But japan had there own hand helds called game and watch, we got them here but well not well known to us at all. But we did not know nintendo had something great in development well two, the first was the Gameboy hand held. The gameboy had the game pokemon on it later on in life and was a huge success due to that, but was a huge step for nintendo and their handhelds. In the year 1990 japan got the Super famicom and in 1991 we got the Super nintendo entertainment system or SNES. Nintendo would keep a major foothold in america for a long while but they would have their first competition in this area for the first

The Virtual Boy, one many don't know but did exist. The system was trying to be the first virtual reality to say, but failed miserably, it was only the color red, hurt the eyes, and had no games. Before a year even passed it got discontinued, forgotten to history. The time has come for the first competition, Nintendo vs Sega with nintendo going head to head with the genesis and super nintendo “Sega's battle against Nintendo in the late-80s and early 90s is best known as the first clash between Sonic and Mario - the speedy hedgehog with attitude versus the plumber with the Mushroom Kingdom's most famous moustache.” ( "Sega v Nintendo: Sonic, Mario and the 1990's Console War."BBC News. ) Soon this would end as nintendo would release the N64 but due to a bad deal with a cd adapter for the SNES, Sony would make the PS1 and would dominate nintendo in the market. Nintendo losing companies like square enix to the PS1 disk technology and begins the market of the three big game companies going head to head for the next two