Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Founded	1889
Headquarters	Kyoto, Japan
Key people	Shuntaro Furukawa (President)
Website	nintendo.com

Nintendo is a Japanese video game company based in Kyoto, Japan.

The company played a key part in the licensing of Tetris in the United States, having manufactured the Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom which hosted some of the most successful versions of Tetris in the United States. In 1988, the company was also involved in a legal battle with Atari regarding the console rights to Tetris (Atari of whom had already produced their own version for the NES).

Former NoA president Minoru Arakawa would eventually form Tetris Online Japan, Inc. with Henk Rogers.

Games

Developed

• Tetris (Game Boy)
• Tetris (NES, Nintendo)
• Tetris DX
• Tetris & Dr. Mario
• Pokémon Tetris
• Tetris DS

Published

• The New Tetris (developed by H2O and Blue Planet Software)
• Tetris 99 (developed by Arika)
• Tetrisphere (developed by H2O)
• Tetris Attack (developed by Intelligent Systems)