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 a countless number of series, such as the Super 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)
 * Virtual Boy (1995-1996)
 * Nintendo 64 (N64) (1996 – 2002)
 * Nintendo GameCube (GCN) (2001 – 2006)
 * Nintendo Wii (2006 – 2013)
 * Nintendo Wii U (2012-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 - 2011)
 * Nintendo DSi (2009 - 2013)
 * Nintendo 3DS (2011-present)
 * Nintendo 3DS XL (2013-present)
 * New Nintendo 3DS (2014-present)

Club Nintendo
Club Nintendo is a Nintendo reward system, where users input codes from major Nintendo games and consoles to receive Coins (or Stars in Europe). Coins may also be earned by completing surveys. These Coins may then be traded for a variety of prizes, including Animal Crossing-related merchandise. The service will be discontinued on June 30, 2015, and will be replaced with a new reward program.