Franchises established on Nintendo systems

There have been many franchises established on Nintendo systems in addition to Nintendo's notable first party franchises. Nintendo consoles were where a number of popular console franchises began.

=Franchises established on the NES/Famicom and Famicom Disk System=

*Adventure Island
*Balloon Fight
*Battletoads
*Castlevania
*Challenger
*Dragon Quest
*Dr. Mario
*Excitebike
*Famicom Grand Prix
*Famicom Jump
*Famicom Tantei Club
*Final Fantasy
*Fire Emblem (brought to the U.S. on the Game Boy Advance)
*Hebereke
*Ice Climber
*Itadaki Street (Japan only)
*Joy Mech Fight (Japan only)
*Kid Icarus
*The Legend of Zelda
*Mach Rider
*Mega Man
*Metroid
*Mother (Mother 2 was brought to the U.S. on the Super NES as "EarthBound", while later games in the series are Japan only.)
*Nazo no Murasamejō (Japan only)
*Nintendo Wars (As "Famicom Wars") (brought to the U.S. on the Game Boy Advance as "Advance Wars" and continued with Battalion Wars)
*Robot series
*StarTropics (North American and PAL regions only)
*Tantei Jingūji Saburō series (Japan only)

Franchises Established On the Virtual Boy

*Mario's Tennis

Franchises established on the Game Boy and Game Boy Color

*Game & Watch Gallery
*Gargoyle's Quest (later released as Demon's Crest for Super NES)
*Kirby
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*Mana (known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu)
*Pokémon
*Pokémon Trading Card Game
*Pokémon Pinball
*SaGa
*Wario series
*Wave Race
*Conker

Franchises established on the Super NES/Super Famicom

*ActRaiser *Bahamut Lagoon (Japan only) *Battle Clash (including its sequel, .) *Breath of Fire *Chrono *Clock Tower (Japan only) *Donkey Kong Country *EarthBound (In North America) *F-Zero *Front Mission *Harvest Moon *Live A Live (Japan only) *Lufia *Mario Kart *Mega Man X *Ogre Battle *Panel de Pon/Tetris Attack *Pilotwings *Soul Blazer -> Illusion of Gaia -> Terranigma *Star Fox *Star Ocean *Super Mario remake series *Super Mario role playing games *Tales RPG Series *Top Gear *Yoshi's Island

Franchises established on the Nintendo 64

*1080° Snowboarding
*Animal Forest (brought to the U.S. on the GameCube as Animal Crossing)
*Banjo-Kazooie
*Custom Robo (brought to the U.S. on the GameCube simply as Custom Robo, and brought to the PAL regions on the Nintendo DS as "Custom Robo Arena")
*Doshin the Giant (N64DD version - Japan only. GameCube version - Japan and Europe only.)
*Mario Golf
*Mario Party
*Paper Mario
*Perfect Dark
*Pokemon Stadium
* (brought to the U.S. and PAL regions on the Wii via Virtual Console)
*Super Smash Bros.
*Turok

Franchises established on the Game Boy Advance

*Ace Attorney (also known as Phoenix Wright) GBA games were Japan only (as Gyakuten Saiban)
*Golden Sun
*Kuru Kuru Kururin (Japan and Europe only, except successors are just Japan only.)
*Densetsu no Stafy (Japan only)
*Magical Vacation/Magical Starsign series (the sequel of it was brought to the U.S. on the DS as Magical Starsign)
*Mario & Luigi
*Mario vs. Donkey Kong
*Mega Man Battle Network
*Mega Man Zero
*Rhythm Tengoku (the sequel of it was brought to the U.S. on the DS as Rhythm Heaven)
*Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival (Japan only)
*Sennen Kazoku (Japan only)
*Tomato Adventure (Japan only)
*WarioWare

Franchises established on the Nintendo GameCube

*Baten Kaitos
*Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
*Chibi-Robo!
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*Lost Kingdoms
*Metroid Prime
*Pikmin
*Mario Strikers
*Viewtiful Joe
*Donkey Konga

Franchises established on the Nintendo DS

*Nintendogs
*Clubhouse Games
*Big Brain Academy
*Brain Age
*Cooking Mama
*Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and its spiritual successor Elite Beat Agents
* -> The Rub Rabbits
*Jump Stars
*Meteos
*Nanostray
*Polarium
*Professor Layton series
*Rune Factory
*Touch Detective
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Franchises established on the Wii

*Boogie
*Boom Blox
*de Blob
*Dewy's Adventure
*Elebits
*LostWinds (WiiWare)
*Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
*MySims
*No More Heroes
*Rayman Raving Rabbids
*Red Steel
*Wii Series (Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Music etc.)
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*Captain Rainbow (So far, Japan Only)

ee also

* History of video games
* List of video games published by Nintendo
* Nintendo