Nintendo entered the ring as a heavy weight (see Punch-Out! NES commercial above) and proved dominance in 1986 with the NES video game console. But don’t think this revolutionary system came to be after a couple years of research and development. In order to land a massive upper cut to the gaming competition, time and training took place. Fusajiro Yamauchi, founder of what will later be Nintendo, began making playing cards back in 1889. The Nintendo name we know today didn’t come until 1963.

The NES was originally sold for 200 dollars with Super Mario Bros. Think about how much that would have cost in today’s economy. Nintendo consoles immediately became the heavyweight in video game console entertainment.

In 1989, the first Gameboy hit the market landing a sneak attack on what was capable for portable devices. Fast forward to 1991 and we see many video game consoles on the market but none better than the SNES, which sat in over 20 million living rooms. In 1996, came Nintendo 64, which KOed all others. Multiplayer games really took off on this console.

In 2001, Gamecube Nintendo consoles were not as lucky as its predecessors; compare it to the Tyson-Holyfield fight. The Nintendo fight seemed lost until the 2006 release of the Wii.