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Nintindo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintindō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company located in Kyōtango, Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 undefined by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company.

Nintindo developed into a video game company, becoming the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over $85 billion US dollars. Nintendo of America is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners MLB team. Nintendo is responsible for the NES and the SNES.

The name Nintindo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven". As of October 18, 2010, Nintendo has sold over 565 million hardware units and 3.4 billion software units.

Popular Nintendo characters include Mario, Kirby, Link, Donkey Kong, Pikachu, Mewtwo, Captain Falcon, Yoshi, Luigi, and others.