Before creating video games, Nintendo sold these.
Playing cards
One composer is best known for Mario and Zelda, but also did work on Punch Out!! and Smash Bros. The other is best known for Donkey Kong Country. Name either, or both for more points.
Koji Kondo and David Wise
This rock is sometimes called "black glass". It's also fairly useful in Minecraft.
Obsidian
Ah, what a refreshing drinkable metal, that also happens to be very close to the sun and the lead singer for Queen!
Mercury (explain 3)
Aifurnn
Ivern
For the original Super Mario Bros., these things used the same sprites to save space. (2 sets)
Bushes and clouds | mushrooms and goombas
I know him for Crypt of the Necrodancer and Ducktales Remastered, but you probably know him for Shovel Knight.
Jake Kaufman
Dwayne Johnson
Africa, toilets, AND Dorothy's dog?!? What can't they do?
Toto (explain 3)
よし
Yoshi
The total price to play Four Swords Adventures with 4 people on release.
~$690
Kole Hicks, Sebastien Najand, Jason Willey, Edouard Brenneisen
Only some rocks of this type, including pumice, can float.
Igneous
These shrubbery obsessed knights of no kuni used to be an adventurer like you, until they took a projectile from a bow.
Ni (explain 3)
Sword for hire. Probably should've invested in a gun.
Mercenary
The number of unique Nintendo console variants. Be glad you're not listing them all. (be within 2)
35
Despite making incredible soundtracks for Solstice, Pictionary, and Spider-Man and the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, everyone just knows him for YouTubers talking about Plok.
Tim Follin
An isotope of this rock has a half-life of 2.01x10^19 years.
Bismuth
Swedish for cow, Coca-Cola's stocks seem far too invested in the face-stealing spirit; I guess they think it'll be a knock-out.
Ko (explain 4)
Not a scientific instrument, but a water pistol.
AWP
This console had the least games of any home Nintendo system, with this many games. No, the Virtual Boy doesn't count, nor does the Pokemon Mini.
N64, 388 games
Tchaikovsky, especially near the end, had a terrible relationship with his wife, probably because he was gay. And in love with his nephew. And about to be executed for homosexuality by the Russian government. Name his wife, or the symphony he wrote for his nephew.
Tchaikovsky's Pathétique/Symphony No. 6 in B Minor | Antonina Miliukova
These rocks are known to move on their own!
Sailing stones
Woe I am, Ashildr will be, would the third solfege reverse the ends of Slim Shady into...?
Me (explain 4)
Officer, I swear I didn't know! I didn't know little girls needed food to survive! I thought my singing would be enough! The other animals were good sport though...
Huntress