Santiago Chacón Bareño ¿WHAT IS NINTENDO? Is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto. Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization, creating some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises. Founded on 23 September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced ha made hanafuda playing cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and love hotels. Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. ICONIC SAGAS FROM NINTENDO Super Mario Bros: Takes place in the peaceful Mushroom Kingdom where “toads” live, which was invaded by the Koopa, a tribe of turtles. The quiet village is turned into stone and bricks, and the kingdom of the mushrooms goes to ruin. The only one who can undo the magical influence of them is Princess Peach, daughter of King Mushroom. Unfortunately, it is in the clutches of King Turtle Koopa, Bowser. Kirby: It begins with the arrival of Kirby to Cappy Town, due to problems with the ship and crashes in the place. There he meets King Dedede, a penguin who rules Dreamland and who wants to eliminate Kirby with the help of monsters he asks a salesman of a corporation called Nightmare Companies. Kirby is allied with Meta Knight to face the king, although at first they do not get along very well The legend of zelda:The series centers on Link, the playable character and chief protagonist. Link is often given the task of rescuing Princess Zelda and the kingdom of Hyrule from Ganon, who is the principal antagonist of the series; however, other settings and antagonists have appeared in several games. The plots commonly involve a relic known as the Triforce, a set of three omnipotent golden triangles. Pokemon: Involves the catching and training of a variety of fictional creatures called "Pokémon" and using them to battle other Trainers. Each successive generation of games builds upon this concept by introducing new Pokémon, items, and gameplay concepts. Some of the general concepts were featured elsewhere in the franchise before being introduced to the games; double battles appeared in the anime long before appearing in the games, and Pokémon Abilities are similar to the Pokémon Powers introduced in the Pokémon Trading Card Game, which also introduced Shiny Pokémon, different colors of that type of the original Pokémon.