Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel. Nintendo soon developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion.

Nintendo's mascot has been Mario himself for over more than 20 years and its series is one of the most successful and best-selling franchises in the video game industry.

According to Nintendo's Touch! Generations website, the name "Nintendo" translated from Japanese to English means "Leave luck to Heaven". As of October 2, 2008, Nintendo has sold over 470 million hardware units and 2.7 billion software units.

Influence in McLeodGaming
As Nintendo properties and franchises are well done by the media, it has led to numerous projects by its fans involving aforementioned properties, it includes games, videos, comic, etc..

The website McLeodGaming primary uses the Super Smash Bros. series as the basis for its fan-made Super Smash Flash series as well the inclusion of the many series into the Super Smash Flash games, that were also created by Nintendo. The Mario series could be considered the most influenced series in McLeodGaming, not only because its reperesentation in the Super Smash Flash games, but for its representation in the Flash cartoons like A Super Mario World, which is also has representation for the The Legend of Zelda series.