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After Sega left the hardware business following the discontinuation of the [[Dreamcast]], Sega started supporting Nintendo platforms as a third-party publisher, starting with the Game Boy Color, the [[Nintendo GameCube]] and the [[Game Boy Advance]].
 
After Sega left the hardware business following the discontinuation of the [[Dreamcast]], Sega started supporting Nintendo platforms as a third-party publisher, starting with the Game Boy Color, the [[Nintendo GameCube]] and the [[Game Boy Advance]].
  
== Competing products and technologies ==
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==Competing products==
 
* Family Computer/[[Nintendo Entertainment System]] (1983-1994)
 
* Family Computer/[[Nintendo Entertainment System]] (1983-1994)
 
* [[Game Boy]] (1989-2003)
 
* [[Game Boy]] (1989-2003)
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* [[Nintendo 64]] (1996-2002)
 
* [[Nintendo 64]] (1996-2002)
  
== Sega-supported products and technologies ==
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==Sega-supported products==
 
* Game Boy Color (1998-2003)
 
* Game Boy Color (1998-2003)
 
* [[Game Boy Advance]] (2001-2008)
 
* [[Game Boy Advance]] (2001-2008)
 
* [[Nintendo GameCube]] (2001-2008)
 
* [[Nintendo GameCube]] (2001-2008)
* Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (2005-2014)
 
 
* [[Nintendo DS]] (2004-2017)
 
* [[Nintendo DS]] (2004-2017)
 
* [[Wii]] (2006-2015)
 
* [[Wii]] (2006-2015)
 
* [[Nintendo 3DS]] (2011-)
 
* [[Nintendo 3DS]] (2011-)
* Nintendo Network (2012-)
 
 
* [[Wii U]] (2012-2017)
 
* [[Wii U]] (2012-2017)
 
* [[amiibo]] (2014-)
 
* [[amiibo]] (2014-)

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Nintendo
Founded: 1889-09-23
Headquarters:
Kyoto, Japan

Nintendo (kanji: 任天堂; kana: ニンテンドウ) is a company that makes video game consoles as well as develops and publishes video games. They were responsible for changing the video game industry into what it is today. Their flagship mascot is Mario, an Italian plumber/carpenter. Nintendo was also Sega's primary rival in the home console market before Sega stopped making consoles.

History

Nintendo was originally founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. Nintendo had also entered other industries over the years like the toy industry, but they have primarily been in the video game industry since the 1970s.

Nintendo and Sega have been associated with each other as early as 1976, when Sega of America brought two of Nintendo's arcade games, Wild Gunman and Shooting Trainer, over to the United States.[1] The earliest indication of a rivalry between Sega and Nintendo in the home console market began when Sega launched their SG-1000 console on the same day Nintendo launched their Family Computer (Famicom) console in Japan - July 15, 1983. When Nintendo redesigned the Famicom into the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) for the North American market in 1985, Sega followed suit by launching the Master System (a redesigned version of the Sega Mark III) the following year. Nintendo's subsequent systems (the Super Famicom/Super NES and Nintendo 64) also competed with Sega's own home consoles for market share.

Nintendo and Sega were present at the 1993 Congressional hearings on video game violence.

Sega biggest feats against Nintendo were outselling them for four Christmas seasons in the U.S. and getting the Sega Saturn to outsell the Nintendo 64 in Japan.

After Sega left the hardware business following the discontinuation of the Dreamcast, Sega started supporting Nintendo platforms as a third-party publisher, starting with the Game Boy Color, the Nintendo GameCube and the Game Boy Advance.

Competing products

Sega-supported products

Softography

Electro-mechanical arcade

Medal game

Arcade

Pico

Sega Titan Video

NAOMI

GameCube

Triforce

Advanced Pico Beena

Nintendo DS

Wii

Wii Virtual Console

Nintendo 3DS

Wii U

Nu 1.1

Nintendo Switch

ALLS UX

LCD

External links

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References