The logo for Nintendo.
Mario, Nintendo's mascot
Nintendo is a company founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. Eventually, Nintendo had soon developed into a video game company, and has become one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion. They are known for making several popular video game console systems, including the Nintendo Wii, the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo 3DS, the Nintendo WiiU, the Nintendo 64, the GameBoy, and the NES and Super NES. The MySims series is mostly only available for only Wii and DS, two of Nintendo's current consoles this generation. Nintendo also owns the Pokemon series, The Legend of Zelda series, the Animal Crossing series, the Metroid series, the Mario series and more.