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Since the late 80s, Nintendo used a "colored triangles" system for licensed video games appearing within PAL regions (Europe, Australasia, Africa and PAL Asia). These triangles can be found on the spine of the manuals for NES (games released from late 80s), SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. After 2002 release of the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo has adopted these triangles in the video game boxes, and apply to all GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Nintendo Switch software. There is more than 50 different colors, many still undocumented. It is worth noting that the color doesn't indicate the country in which the game is sold, but the language of the copy (with only a few exceptions), therefore, several different triangles can be found in one country.

Color	Name	Language(s)	Notes
	EUR	DE, ES, FR, IT, NL
	EUR	DE, EN, ES, FR, IT
	EUR	DE, EN, ES, FR
	EUR	EN, ES, IT
	EUR	DE, EN, FR
	EUR1T2	EN
	EXP	EN
	UXP	EN	"Not for sale/supply/distribution in the UK"
	EUU	EN, NL
	EUU	DE, IT
"Yellow"	NEU5	DE, EN, ES, FR, NL
"Aqua"	FHUG	DE, EN, FR, NL
"Crimson"		DE, FR, NL	To be confirmed
	UKV	EN
	NOE	DE
	FRA	FR	Games published by Nintendo
	FRA	FR	Games published by third parties
	FAH	FR, NL
	HOL	NL
"Pink"	HUG	EN, NL
	ESP	ES
	POR	PT
	PORT	PT
	EAP	ES, PT
	ITA	IT
"Yellow-green"	SCN	DK, EN, NO, SV	To be confirmed
	SCN	DK, FI, NO, SV
	SCN	EN
	SWE	SV
	SWD	DK, SV
	SWF	FI, SV	Finnish before Swedish, presumably for Finnish market
	AUS	EN	Australia and New Zeland. No longer used on spine (it was replaced by OFLC rating images) but still visible on back of box.
"Very light orange"	EUB	EN, FR, PT
"Very light pink"	HAU	EN, LU
	GAU	EN, GR
		RU
		PL
		CZ
		SK
		HU

External links

Research by Nanaky.eu.

References

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-Since the release of the [[Nintendo GameCube]] in 2001, Nintendo of Europe has adopted a "colored triangles" system for licensed video games appearing within Europe. These triangles can be found on the spine of the video game box, and currently apply to all GameCube, [[Nintendo DS]], [[Wii]], [[Nintendo 3DS]], [[Wii U]] and [[Nintendo Switch]] software.
+Since the late 80s, Nintendo used a "colored triangles" system for licensed video games appearing within PAL regions (Europe, Australasia, Africa and PAL Asia). These triangles can be found on the spine of the manuals for [[NES]] (games released from late 80s), [[SNES]], [[Game Boy]], [[Nintendo 64]], [[Game Boy Color]] and [[Game Boy Advance]]. After 2002 release of the [[Nintendo GameCube]], Nintendo has adopted these triangles in the video game boxes, and apply to all GameCube, [[Nintendo DS]], [[Wii]], [[Nintendo 3DS]], [[Wii U]] and [[Nintendo Switch]] software. There is more than 50 different colors, many still undocumented. It is worth noting that the color doesn't indicate the country in which the game is sold, but the language of the copy (with only a few exceptions), therefore, several different triangles can be found in one country.
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 ==External links==
-* [http://www.nanaky.eu/NintendoTriangles.html Research by Nanaky.eu].
+* [https://www.nanaky.eu/NintendoTriangles.html Research by Nanaky.eu].
+==References==
+<references />
 [[Category:General interest]]

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