Nintendo

Japanese multinational video game and consumer electronics company

13 dated entries naming Nintendo, drawn from 12 separate years between 1889 CE and 2017 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

1889September 23 – The Nintendo Koppai (later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded in Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi, to produce and market Hanafuda playing cards.source

20th century

1981July 9 – Donkey Kong is released in Japan by Nintendo, marking the first release in both the Donkey Kong and Mario series of games. The arcade game proves to be Nintendo's first major hit.source
1983July 15 – Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.source
1985September 13 – Super Mario Bros by Nintendo, the start of the Mario series, officially comes out.source
1986August 6 – Metroid is released by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System.source
1989July 31 – Nintendo releases the Game Boy portable video game system in North America.source
1989September 23 – Nintendo Company Ltd. celebrates its 100th anniversary.source
1990November 21 – Nintendo releases the Super Famicom in Japan alongside its launch games Super Mario World and F-Zero.source
1991June 23 – Sonic the Hedgehog is released by Sega for the Sega Genesis to compete with Nintendo's Mario franchise.source

21st century

2004November 21 – Nintendo releases the Nintendo DS handheld game console in North America.source
2006November 19 – Nintendo releases the Wii.source
2015July 11 – Nintendo's president and CEO Satoru Iwata dies.source
2017March 3 – Nintendo releases the Switch worldwide.source