Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha?) is a Japanese video game hardware manufacturer and software publisher. They are the largest video game making company, followed by Sony. They have countless series, such as the Mario, Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, and Metroid series. They previously made hanafuda cards before they came into the video game industry, and are now one of the largest video game companies there are. Since they're the developers of the Animal Crossing series, some of their products, like the NES have made it into Animal Crossing gameplay. They also have made the SNES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Gameboy, Game Boy Color, Gameboy Advance, and Nintendo DS.

Gaming systems
Nintendo has created many gaming systems, most of which are listed below:

Consoles

 * Color TV Game (1977 – 1980)
 * Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) (1983 – 2003)
 * Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) (1990 – 2003)
 * Nintendo 64 (N64) (1996 – 2002)
 * Nintendo GameCube (GCN) (2001 – 2006)
 * Nintendo Wii (2006 – Present)

Portables

 * Game & Watch (1980-1991)
 * Game Boy (1989 – 1998)
 * Gameboy Pocket (1996-1998)
 * Game Boy Light (1998-1998)
 * Game Boy Color (1998-2001)
 * Game Boy Advance (2001-2004)
 * Nintendo DS (2004 – 2007)
 * Nintendo DS Lite (2006 - Present)
 * Nintendo DSi (2009 - Present)
 * Nintendo 3DS (2011 - Present)

Club Nintendo
Club Nintendo is a place in which users may input codes of older games created by Nintendo for Coins, which may be redeemed for prizes. It is essentially a "thank-you" for purchasing Nintendo products.