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Nintendo is the longest running company in the history of the video game consoleA video game console is a dedicated electronic device designed to play video games. Often the output device is a separate television or a computer monitor. Once, video game consoles were easily distinguishable from personal computers: consoles used a stan market. They have been in the U.S. market since 1985 and have manufactured four TV consoles -- the Famicom/ NEScomputer than a toy to avoid being associated with the video game industry, which crashed in 1983. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is a video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, and Australia. The console is the internation, the Super FamicomSNES, though the controllers are almost the same. The console is similar to the European SNES. Super Famicom ( Japanese:) was a videogame console released by Nintendo in Japan. For information about the North American and European versions of this console/ Super NES, the N64Super Smash Bros. Nintendo 64 or simply N64 is Nintendo's third home video game console, released on June 23, 1996 in Japan, September 29, 1996 in North America, and finally March 1, 1997 in Europe. The Nintendo 64 was released with only two launch games, the current GameCubeThe Nintendo GameCube ( Japanese: ; originally code-named "Dolphin" during development; abbreviated as GCN is Nintendo's fourth home video game console, belonging to the 128-bit era; the same generation as Sega's Dreamcast, Sony's PlayStation 2, and Microand many different handheld consoles, including five versions of their popular Game Boy, and the new Nintendo DS.
In 1950, Hiroshi Yamauchi, great-great-grandson of Fusajiro and future president of Nintendo, made a deal with Disney to produce playing cards featuring Disney characters, when Nintendo came to make western-style playing cards as well as hanafuda at that period. Even from its early history it was clear that Nintendo was focused on making entertainment for children. These cards sold millions of packs, and made Nintendo enough money to move into other ventures, particularly toys.
By the late 1970s, Nintendo had begun to lose market share to electronic game manufacturers such as Bandai, and they responded with the Game & Watch series (small single-screen LCD games) which were created by the late visionary Gunpei Yokoi, as well as a series of arcade games. The first Nintendo arcade games were shooting-gallery type light gun games. When this trend in arcades began to falter, Yamauchi hired Shigeru Miyamoto to give new video games artistic direction. In 1980, Nintendo of America (NOA) was established by Yamauchi's son-in-law, Minoru Arakawa. In 1981, Miyamoto created Donkey Kong, whose protagonist would evolve into the legendary video game character known as Mario.