Nintendo Celebrities (Hard)
One of Nintendo's most well known creators who led to the creation of Mario, Donkey Kong, and The Legend of Zelda
Shigeru Miyamoto
Nintendo's previously best selling home console featuring a remote controller with emphasis on motion and pointer controls with add-ons for more standard controller functionality as well as fun customizable avatars known as Miis
The Nintendo Wii
This year is the year that Nintendo was founded.
What is the year 1889?
Nintendo's most well known IP starring a red capped and blue overall-ed carpenter, turned plumber, turned princess saving mustached hero. With Charles Martine being the officially recognized as his first and consistent voice actor for him.
Super Mario
A series consisting of (atm) 3 entries spanning 36 years of existence, with inspiration from Greek mythology. It follows an Pit, an angel without the natural ability to fly outside of being granted the ability to so by the Goddess of Light Palutena, as he faces off against the forces of the underworld.
Kid Icarus
Best known for the creation of popular Nintendo franchises including the Super Smash Bros. series, and is the creator of the Kirby series.
Masahiro Sakurai
Nintendo's best selling home console as of 2021, known for it's ability to be both a home and handheld console including a set of detachable set of controllers and is the first Nintendo console to use cartridges since the Nintendo 64 in 1996.
The Nintendo Switch
Nintendo started its business by producing and selling this type of Japanese playing cards after there public resurgence after being un-banned by the Japanese government in the late 1800s, these cards depicted beautiful art of flowers, animals and other things instead of the standard shapes, royalty, and numbers depicted in Western playing cards.
Hanafuda Cards
Usually starring a blonde darkness-sealing sword wielding hero, who is wielder of courage and is reincarnated every 100 years to defeat the wielder of power, and in support or rescue of the wielder of wisdom, to bring piece to the land he resides in. As well as typically being depicted with a green tunic and cap all though his most recent appearances do not follow this tradition.
The Legend of Zelda
Chibi-Robo
Former Nintendo of America CEO, known for his fun nature, having a ready body, and dueling with the former Satoru Iwata.
Reggie Fils-Aime
Known as the Nintendo Famicom (Family-Computer) in Japan before being given a new paint job and newer features for its release in the West in 1985, and is considered to be the savior of the video game market after its crash two years prior. It featured a grey, black, and red color scheme and and boxy design, and included a light gun for Duck-Hunt.
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
This console was Nintendo's bestselling console at 154 Million.
What is the DS?
Originally created by Satoshi Taijiri in 1996 and developed by Game Freak for the Nintendo Game-Boy. This franchise has endured great success far outside the realm of video games and is considered to be the highest-grossing media franchise. The name of which is short hand for Pocket Monster.
(Bonus): The IP is owned/managed by this company consisting of three other companies, these being Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures Inc.
Pokemon
(Bonus): The Pokemon Company
A 3 entry RPG series starting out on the NES, who's third entry is known well for it's lack of official release and localization outside Japan. These games follow a small boy, each one being a new one per entry, with a striped shirt and shorts, as well as the limited ability to use PSI powers in combat, alongside a cast of other characters to fight alongside them. They each face off against the most relatively normal of foes to power hungry other worldly invaders. These were created by Shigisato Itoi and served as inspiration for other RPGs down the line including Toby Fox's Undertale
Mother/Earthbound
This Nintendo composer has worked on series such Animal Crossing, where there's also an entire character is based off of him, Luigi's Mansion, where he also plays Luigi's main ally, as well as a majority if not all of the music for both the Wii and the Wii series of games.
Kazumi Totaka
Nintendo's console of the Fifth generation of game consoles Sega's Sega Saturn and Sony's Playstation, the latter of which would show the most competition despite being a less powerful system. The console featured a controversial controller design, as well as including the first "analog-stick" before Sony's Dual-Analog Controller a year later.
The Nintendo 64
Made by Gunpei Yokoi during Nintendo's time in making and manufacturing toys this toy featured an extending arm with to grips on one end and a pair of cups on the other allowing it to pick up objects. This toy later got short video game based around grilling with the toy later on the Wii for Club Nintendo Users.
The Ultra Hand
A life sim. series created by Katsuya Eguchi, about enjoying life in a relatively small community of anthropomorphic animals, partaking in what many could consider mundane life activities with a real-time based clock and passage of time. The first entry was originally slated to be released for the N64 Disk Drive before its cancellation which only led to its release on N64 cartridges in Japan before finally being released to the West on the GameCube.
Animal Crossing
F-Zero
An important person in Nintendo's history, first working under the company as a janitor before going on to creating the first and second of Nintendo's handhelds: the Game&Watch and Gameboy. As well as being recognized as the creator of the d-pad/directional-pad.
Gunpei Yokoi
The worst selling Nintendo console rushed out to release in 1995 to fill in the gap of the ever delayed Nintendo 64. It was Designed by Gunpei Yokoi, and featured a Virtual Reality like set up with two screens displaying two different or same images to the each eye, it had an odd controller with 2 d-pads as well as and Red and Black color scheme for the console itself. Because of it's rushed release and cut budget much like the console's color pallet the games could only display in shades of Red and Black.
The Virtual Boy
Although the Famicom/NES are seen as Nintendo first home consoles they were preceded by this series of Japanese only home consoles released between 1977 and 1980.
The Color TV-Game line
One of Nintendo's newest IPs, who's first entry released on the WiiU and second and third entries releasing on the Nintendo Switch. These games are 3rd-person shooters that star a race of anthropomorphic chephlapods, squids and octopi specifically, which partake in friendly competition of turf-wars where the objective is to spread as much of your team's ink over the game map while keeping the other team from doing the same.
Splatoon
Starting out as an Arcade game, it eventually released on the NES with the inclusion and name drop of Mike Tyson, the series proceeded to release two new games afterwards excluding a Club Nintendo exclusive training game involving facing off against the main character's trainer Doc Louis.
(Bonus:) All series in this category have at least one playable character in the Smash Bros. series, except this series/character.Punch-Out
(Bonus): Chibi-Robo