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- Stock symbol: NTDOY (NASDAQ)
- Annual revenue (2007): $8.19 billion
- Founder: Fusajiro Yamauchi
- Year established: 1889 (as a playing card company)
- Industry: Video Games
- Phone: (800) 255-3700
- HQ: Kyoto, Japan
- President/CEO: Satoru Iwata
- Staff: 3,768
- Nintendo of America President & COO: Reggie Fils-Aime
- Game Designer: Shigeru Miyamoto
- Products: Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS
- Originally: Nintendo Koppai
- Originally produced Hanafuda playing cards
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Nintendo is one of the largest producers of video games and consoles in the world. The company's popularity skyrocketed in 2006 after the release of their revolutionary gaming system, the Nintendo Wii.
On March 25, 2009, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata was a keynote speaker at the Game Developers Conference 2009 (GDC). During his speech he announced the Wii SD Card Channel and Virtual Channel arcade. He also announced the upcoming release of a new Zelda series game for the Nintendo DS, titled Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. The new game is expected to be released later in 2009.PC World: Nintendo President Reveals Company Strategies, Wii Storage at GDC
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Key Dates
- 1977: Produce company's first home video game systems
- 1981: Create Donkey Kong
- 1985: Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) hits the United States packaged with Super Mario Bros.
- 1989: Game Boy handheld gaming system introduced
- 1990: Nintendo World Championships http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_World_Championships
- 1991: Super Nintendo Entertainment System released
- 1995: Virtual Boy released
- 1996: Nintendo 64 released
- 1998: Game Boy Color released
- 2001: Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance released
- 2004: Nintendo DS released
- 2006: Nintendo Wii released
- 2009: Tetris celebrates 25 years on June 6th
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Games Produced:
Famicom: 1056 NES: 790 Super Famicom: 1673 SNES: 785 N64: 387 Game Cube: 640 Wii: 319+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Nintendo_games
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