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Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation best known for their home video game consoles and for their game franchises such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid and Pokémon, among many others. Founded in 1889, it originally began as a Hanafuda playing card company and, after many failed ventures into other industries (among them being toys and even a "Love Hotel" chain of which the company would do a complete 180° and is now a far cry from), would find success in 1974 when it secured the rights to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey in Japan, and its success would sprout from there as it began to develop its own games and hardware.

Like Transformers, Nintendo would also become a worldwide phenomenon in the 1980's with the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong and the Family Computer in 1983, released worldwide as the Nintendo Entertainment System just two years later. Due to the Transformers franchise having comparatively few video games until the rise of the live-action film series, only about a handful of Transformers titles were released at all on earlier Nintendo consoles, most of which were exclusive to the Japanese market and one of which was cancelled in development.

The company has partnered with DeNA and Niantic on the development of several mobile titles based on their franchises, such as Pokémon Go and Fire Emblem Heroes. In 2021, they purchased Next Level Games.

Nintendo console games

Also known as the Ultra Magnus Death Simulator.

Famicom/NES

• Transformers: Mystery of Convoy (1986)
• Transformers: The Headmasters (1987)

Super Famicom/SNES

• A Generation 2 video game by Argonaut Software was planned but scrapped during development. Many believed this game eventually evolved into an unrelated game called Vortex, but these were later proven to be two separate projects.^[1]
• While no Transformers games were developed for the system, players can access special features in Duel Fight Beast Wars by playing it on the Super Famicom or SNES via the Super Game Boy.

Nintendo 64

• Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (1999)

Nintendo Gamecube

• DreamMix TV World Fighters (2003)

Wii

• Transformers: The Game (2007)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
• Transformers: Cybertron Adventures (2010)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition (2011)
• Transformers: Prime - The Game (2012)

Wii U

• Transformers: Prime - The Game (2012)
• Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (2014)
• Splatoon (2015)

Nintendo Switch

• Transformers: Battlegrounds (2020)
• Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition (2023)
• Transformers: Galactic Trials (2024)

Nintendo Handheld games

Game Boy Color

• Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle (1999)

Nintendo DS

• Transformers Autobots/Decepticons (2007)
• Transformers Animated: The Game (2008)
• Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Autobots/Decepticons (2009)
• Transformers: War for Cybertron — Autobots/Decepticons (2010)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons (2011)
• Transformers: Prime - The Game (2012)

Nintendo 3DS

• Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition (2011)
• Transformers: Prime - The Game (2012)
• Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (2014)
• Bike Rider DX3: Time Rider (2015)

Notes

• Nearly every Konami and Hudson Soft character in DreamMix TV World Fighters either made their debut on a Nintendo console or at least had a version of their originals released on a Nintendo system.
• In August 2015, Hasbro and Nintendo would form a sponsorship deal to promote Transformers: Robots in Disguise within its online multiplayer game Splatoon, through its "Splatfest" event in North America.

References

1. ↑ "The Making of: Vortex". Retro Gamer (147): p. 39. October 2015.

External links

• Official website
  
• Nintendo at Wikipedia