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Exploring Nintendo: A Quiz on the Iconic Game Company

Test your knowledge about Nintendo, a leading company in the gaming industry, and discover interesting facts about its history and key figures.

1 What industry is Nintendo in?

2 ________

3 ________

4 Who of the following is a key person at Nintendo?

5 Where is Nintendo?

6 What type of company is Nintendo?

7 In 1989, Yokoi developed the ________ handheld video game console.

8 The starburst is circular in PAL regions, such as Europe and Australia, and elliptical for ________ regions.

9 When was Nintendo founded?

10 Besides video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a ________ team in Seattle, Washington.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 1999 anime series Digimon Adventure was first seen as an imitation of Nintendo's Pokémon franchise when its episodes first aired in North America.
  • the recently-announced video game Metroid: Other M is being co-developed by both Team Ninja and Nintendo.
  • the sole developer and creator of Bob's Game tried to publicly protest by locking himself in his room for 100 days or until Nintendo granted him the software development kit for the game.
  • while developing Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo, Factor 5 put together a playable demo for Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader in 19 days to show at Nintendo's 2001 Space World.
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 will mark the first time a second full-3D Mario franchise title has been made for a single Nintendo system.
  • Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is the second video game based on the Olympics to star Nintendo's and Sega's once-rival mascots, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Glass Joe is considered one of Nintendo's most iconic characters, and has been used as a term to signify failure or weakness.
  • St.GIGA was a satellite radio company that used to broadcast gaiden-versions of Nintendo's most popular franchises.
  • Darren Heitner was a champion Nintendo video game player aged six and then defeated over 400,000 other students at age ten in a US educational poster contest run by the National Football League.
  • Nintendo plans to release a revised model of the Nintendo DS Lite handheld game console called the Nintendo DSi, with two built-in cameras.