Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. 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..

Gregory McLeod's early Flash series, A Super Mario World, used characters from Nintendo's Mario and The Legend of Zelda franchises.

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 Super Smash Flash series takes elements from different Nintendo franchises such as the Mario series, The Legend of Zelda series, Metroid series, Donkey Kong series, Kid Icarus series, Yoshi series, Wario series, Fire Emblem series, F-Zero series, Star Fox series, EarthBound series, Kirby series, Pokémon series, Animal Crossing series and Pikmin series.

However, most of the franchises stated above have had major representation in the main Super Smash Bros. series which included characters and stages. The Super Smash Flash series added more representation from different Nintendo franchises that had little to no representation in the main series. These include the Chibi-Robo! series and the Golden Sun series, to which characters and stages from both series are included.