Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha?) is a Japanese software publisher, video game and hardware manufacturer. They are the largest video game making company, followed by Sony. They have countless series, such as the Mario, Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, Kirby, and Metroid series. They previously made hanafuda cards before they came into the video game industry. Since they're the developers of the, some of their products, like the NES have made it into Animal Crossing gameplay.

Gaming systems
Nintendo has created many gaming systems, most of which are listed below:

Consoles

 * Color TV Game (1977 – 1980)
 * Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) (1983 –2003)
 * Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) (1990 – 200)
 * Virtual Boy (VB) (1995-1996)
 * Nintendo 64 (N64) (1996 – 2003)
 * Nintendo GameCube (GCN) (2001 – 2007)
 * Nintendo Wii (2006 – 2013)
 * Nintendo Wii Family Edition (2011-2013)
 * Nintendo Wii Mini (2012-2015)
 * Nintendo Wii U (2012 – Present)

Portables

 * Game &amp; Watch (G&W) (1980-1991)
 * Game Boy (GB) (1989–1999)
 * Game Boy Pocket (GBP) (1996-1999)
 * Game Boy Light (GBL) (1998-1999) (JPN only)
 * Game Boy Color (GBC) (1998-2003)
 * Game Boy Advance (GBA) (2001-2008)
 * Pokémon Mini (2001-2003)
 * Game Boy Advance SP (GBASP) (2003-2008)
 * Nintendo DS Phat (2004-2007)
 * Game Boy Micro (GBM) (2005-2008)
 * Nintendo DS Lite (2006-2011)
 * Nintendo DSi (2008–2013)
 * Nintendo DSi XL (LL) (2009–2013)
 * Nintendo 3DS (2011–Present)
 * Nintendo 3DS XL (LL) (2012–Present)
 * Nintendo 2DS (2013-Present)
 * "NEW" 3DS (2014-Present)
 * "NEW" 3DS XL (LL) (2014-Present)

HAL Laboratory, Inc.
HAL Laboratory, Inc. (株式会社ハル研究所 Kabushikigaisha Haru Kenkyūjo) is another Japanese video game developer, a subsidiary of Nintendo. It is known for developing the, as well as Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Its most famous character is Kirby.

Satoru Iwata, the current president of Nintendo, used to be the president of HAL in 1992 until he joined Nintendo in 2000 then later he became the Nintendo president on May 31, 2002

All Animal Crossing games feature the HAL Laboratory logo during the game start-up. However, the logo and the company are not mentioned on the game boxes, which only mention Nintendo with the Nintendo logo.