34 Facts About Nintendo Entertainment

1. Nintendo Entertainment has consistently been ranked last in Greenpeace's "Guide to Greener Electronics" due to Nintendo's failure to publish information.

2. In 1992, Nintendo Entertainment teamed with the Starlight Children's Foundation to build Starlight Fun Center mobile entertainment units and install them in hospitals.

3. Many years, Nintendo Entertainment had a policy of strict content guidelines for video games published on its consoles.

4. Nintendo Entertainment established The Pokemon Company alongside Creatures and Game Freak in order to effectively manage the Pokemon brand.

5. The next day, Nintendo Entertainment unveiled the trailer that revealed the final name of the platform called Nintendo Switch.

6. On 17 March 2015, Nintendo Entertainment announced a new "dedicated games platform with a brand new concept" with the codename "NX" that would be further revealed in 2016.

7. Nintendo Entertainment introduced a variety of connectivity options for the GameCube.

8. Nintendo Entertainment released a limited run of the Super NES Classic Edition in September 2017 through the end of the year.

9. Nintendo Entertainment produced a limited run of the NES Classic Edition in 2016.

10. In November 2017, it was reported that Nintendo Entertainment would be teaming up with Illumination Entertainment, an animation division of Universal Pictures, to make an animated Mario film.

11. In September 2017, Nintendo Entertainment announced a partnership with the Chinese gaming company Tencent to publish a global version of their commercially successful mobile game, Honor of Kings, for the Nintendo Switch.

12. In December 2016, Nintendo Entertainment released Super Mario Run for iOS devices, with the game surpassing over 50 million downloads within a week of its release.

13. On 20 October 2016, Nintendo Entertainment released a preview trailer about the NX, revealing the official name to be the Nintendo Switch.

14. In May 2016, Nintendo Entertainment expressed a desire to enter the animated film market.

15. On 17 March 2015, Nintendo Entertainment announced a partnership with Japanese mobile developer DeNA to produce games for smart devices.

16. Nintendo Entertainment continues its partnership with Juegos de Video Latinoamerica to distribute products to the rest of Latin America.

17. In January 2015, Nintendo Entertainment announced its exit from the Brazilian market after four years of distributing products in the country.

18. Nintendo Entertainment has worked with this company in the past to create character recognition software for a Nintendo DS touchscreen.

19. Nintendo Entertainment released the Wii Mini, a cheaper and non-networked redesign of the Wii.

20. In February 2012, Nintendo Entertainment acquired Mobiclip, a France-based research and development company specialised in highly optimised software technologies such as video compression.

21. In 2011, Nintendo Entertainment released the Nintendo Entertainment 3DS, based upon a glasses-free stereoscopic 3D display.

22. In 2004, Nintendo Entertainment released the Nintendo Entertainment DS, its fourth major handheld system.

23. In 1996, Nintendo Entertainment released the Ultra 64 as the Nintendo 64 in Japan and North America.

24. In 1989, Nintendo Entertainment announced plans to release the successor to the Famicom, the Super Famicom.

25. Nintendo Entertainment released the Game Boy in Japan on 21 April 1989, and in North America on 31 July 1989.

26. In 1983, Nintendo Entertainment launched the Family Computer home video game console in Japan, alongside ports of its most popular arcade games.

27. Nintendo Entertainment had some small success with this venture, but the release of Donkey Kong in 1981, designed by Miyamoto, changed Nintendo's fortunes dramatically.

28. Nintendo Entertainment worked for Yokoi, and one of his first tasks was to design the casing for several of the Color TV-Game consoles.

29. Nintendo Entertainment began to produce its own hardware in 1977, with the Color TV-Game home video game consoles.

30. Nintendo Entertainment continued to produce popular toys, including the Ultra Machine, Love Tester and the Kousenjuu series of light gun games.

31. In 1966, Nintendo Entertainment moved into the Japanese toy industry with the Ultra Hand, an extendable arm developed by its maintenance engineer Gunpei Yokoi in his free time.

32. Nintendo Entertainment continues to manufacture playing cards in Japan and organises its own contract bridge tournament called the "Nintendo Cup".

33. Nintendo Entertainment was founded as a playing card company by Fusajiro Yamauchi on 23 September 1889.

34. Nintendo Entertainment is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalisation, creating some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokemon.