The History of Nintendo

  • Starter

    Starter
    Nintendo was founded to make traditional japanese cards called the hanafuda the hanafuda were playing cards that represented pictures and could be used for a number of games.
  • Birth

    Birth
    Shigero Miyamoto was born. and he was a very important asset to the nintendo company because he would grow up to be a great artist for nintendo.
  • Spreading

    Spreading
    Nintendo starts to produce games, toys and even playing cards, these games toys and cards were mainly produced in japan at the time though.
  • Image Projection System

    Image Projection System
    Nintendo developed a image projection system used in early electronic days. which was one of the first games that could be played in the house.
  • Shigero Miyamoto was hired

    Shigero Miyamoto was hired
    Nintendo hired a japanese artist Shigero Miyamoto this man was important because he helped the Nintendo alot.
  • First arcade machine

    First arcade machine
    Nintendo releases the first arcade machine of their business, " Computer Othello" this game was basically checkers, but way funner back then because you didn't have to do as much and because it was electronic!
  • Donkey kong

    Donkey kong
    Released the arcade game "Donkey Kong" fun fact: The reason Donkey Kong name starts with the word donkey is because shigeru thought that it meant stubborn in english!
  • First home video game of nintendo

    First home video game of nintendo
    The corperation of nintendo releases one of the biggest hit in that time.. "Famicon" it was like a mini computer that the whole family could play with.
  • World wide

    World wide
    In 1985 the Nintendo company releases the Nintendo Enternationally system (NES) world wide.
  • The GameBoy!

    The GameBoy!
    the biggest hit for two years for the nintendo was the game boy! this was the first type of game that you could just walk around with made from the nintendo!
  • Getting a upgrade

    Getting a upgrade
    Nintendo releases the super nintendo which was a big hit till 1996 becuase of the pokemon game.
  • Pika...Chuuu!

    Pika...Chuuu!
    the first poke'mon game came out that was released for the gameboy. but it came out also with gameboy with color few months later so the game could be more exciting.
  • Period: to

    All it takes

    in 2006 they made the wii but after 6 more years they released the nintendo console.
  • The end for now

    The end for now
    in 2017 Nintendo released the Nintendo Nintendo switch the nintendo switch is a portable game that is able to do as much as the wii and more.