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Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division
	Exterior of the Nintendo Central Office in Kyoto, where the division was housed for most of its existence
Native name	任天堂情報開発本部
Romanized name	Nintendō Jōhō Kaihatsu Honbu
Formerly	Nintendo Research & Development No.4 Department
Company type	Division
Industrie	Video games
Predecessors	Nintendo R&D1; Nintendo R&D2;
Gegründet	September 30, 1983; 40 years ago
Gründer	Hiroshi Yamauchi
Defunct	September 16, 2015
Fate	Merged with Nintendo Software Planning & Development
Successor	Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
Hauptsitz	Kyoto, Japan
Number of locations	2 (Kyoto and Tokyo)
Key people	Hiroshi Ikeda; Shigeru Miyamoto; Takashi Tezuka; Katsuya Eguchi; Yoshiaki Koizumi; Hideki Konno; Eiji Aonuma;
Services	Video game development
Parent	Nintendo

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Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division,^[e] commonly abbreviated as Nintendo EAD and formerly known as Nintendo Research & Development No.4 Department^[f] (abbreviated as Nintendo R&D4), was the largest software development division within the Japanese video game company Nintendo. It was preceded by the Creative Department, a team of designers with backgrounds in art responsible for many different tasks, to which Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka originally belonged.^[1]^[2] Both served as managers of the EARD studios and were credited in every game developed by the division, with varying degrees of involvement. Nintendo EAD was best known for its work on games in the Donkey Kong, Mario, The Legend of Zelda, F-Zero, Star Fox, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, and Wii series.

Following a large company restructuring after the death of company president Satoru Iwata, the division merged with Nintendo's Software Planning & Development division in September 2015, becoming Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development.

History

Background

During the 1970s, when Nintendo was still predominantly a toy company, it decided to expand into interactive entertainment and the video game industry. Several designers were hired to work under the Creative Department, which, at the time, was the only game development department within Nintendo. Among these new designers were Makoto Kano, who went on to design various Game & Watch games, and Shigeru Miyamoto, who would create various Nintendo franchises. In 1972, the department was renamed to Research & Development Department; it had about 20 employees. The department was later consolidated into a division and separated into three groups, Nintendo R&D1, R&D2 and R&D3.

1980–1989: Creation as Research & Development 4

Circa 1984, Hiroshi Imanishi oversaw the creation of Research & Development No. 4 Department (commonly abbreviated to Nintendo R&D4), as a new development department dedicated to developing video games for dedicated consoles, complementing the other three existing departments in the Nintendo Manufacturing Division.^[3]^[4]^[5] Imanishi appointed Hiroshi Ikeda, a former anime director at Toei Animation, as general manager of the newly created department, and Miyamoto as its chief producer, who would later become one of the most recognized video game developers in the world.^[6] Nintendo also drafted a couple of key graphic designers to the department including Takashi Tezuka and Kenji Miki. With the arcade market dwindling, Nintendo R&D1's former focus, the department concentrated most of their software development resources on the emerging handheld video game console market, primarily thanks to the worldwide success of Nintendo's Game Boy. This catapulted the R&D4 department to become the lead software developer for Nintendo home video game consoles, developing a myriad of games for the Family Computer home console (abbreviated to Famicom, known as the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America, Europe, and Australia).

Hiroshi Ikeda's creative team had many video game design ideas but was lacking the necessary programming power to make it all happen. Toshihiko Nakago, and his small company Systems Research & Development (SRD), had its expertise in computer-aided design (CAD) tools and was very familiar with the Famicom chipset, and was originally hired to work with Masayuki Uemura's Nintendo R&D2 to internally develop software development kits. When Nintendo R&D2 and SRD jointly began porting over R&D1 arcade games to the Famicom, Shigeru Miyamoto took the opportunity to lure Nakago away from R&D2, to help Miyamoto create his first Nintendo R&D4 video game, Excitebike. And so the original R&D4 department became composed of Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Kenji Miki, and Minoru Maeda handling design; Koji Kondo, Akito Nakatsuka, and Hirokazu Tanaka handling sound design; and Toshihiko Nakago and SRD became the technology and programming core.

The same Miyamoto-led team that developed Excitebike went on to develop a 1985 NES port of the scrolling beat 'em up arcade game Kung-Fu Master (1984) called Kung Fu. Miyamoto's team used the technical knowledge they had gained from working on both side-scrollers to further advance the platforming "athletic game" genre they had created with Donkey Kong and were key steps towards Miyamoto's vision of an expansive side-scrolling platformer.^[7]^[8]

One of the first games developed by the R&D4 department was Mario Bros. in 1983, designed and directed by Miyamoto. The department was, however, unable to program the game with such an inexperienced team, and so counted on programming assistance from Gunpei Yokoi and the R&D1 department. One of the first completely self-developed games was Super Mario Bros., the sequel to Mario Bros. The game set standards for the platform genre, and went on to be both a critical and commercial success. In 1986, R&D4 developed The Legend of Zelda, for which Miyamoto again served as a director. The phenomenal sales of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda fueled the expansion of the department with young game designers such as Hideki Konno, Katsuya Eguchi, Kensuke Tanabe, Takao Shimizu, who would later become producers themselves.

1989–2002: Renamed to Entertainment Analysis & Development

In 1989, one year before the Super Famicom was released in Japan, the R&D4 department was spun-off and made its own division named Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development (commonly abbreviated as Nintendo EAD).^[9] The division was comprised into two departments: the Software Development Department, which focused on video game development and was led by Miyamoto, and the Technology Development Department, which focused on programming and developing tools and was led by Takao Sawano.^[10] The technology department was born out of several R&D2 engineers that were assisting SRD with software libraries. After that, the same department later collaborated with Argonaut Software to develop the Super FX chip technology for the SNES, first used in Star Fox in 1993. This venture allowed the Technology Development Department to become more prominent in the 3D era, where they programmed several of Nintendo EAD's 3D games with SRD.

F-Zero, released in 1990, was the first video game fully programmed at the division. Prior to that, most programming was outsourced to SRD Co. Ltd.^[11]

In 1997, Miyamoto explained that about twenty to thirty employees were devoted to each Nintendo EAD title during the course of its development.^[12] It was then that he also disclosed the existence of the SRD programming company within the division, formally Nintendo R&D2's software unit, which was composed of about 200 employees with proficiency in software programming.^[12]

In the advent of launching both the GameCube and Game Boy Advance, Nintendo sought to change the structure of its corporate management. In June 2000, in an attempt to include both software and hardware experts in the board of directors, EAD and Integrated Research & Development general managers, Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda respectively, entered the body. In addition, former HAL Laboratory president and future Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, also entered the board. With Miyamoto being promoted to the board of directors, he was now in charge of overseeing all of Nintendo's software development. To fill Miyamoto's void as a producer, there were a series of promotions in the division: starting with long-time Miyamoto colleague Takashi Tezuka, as deputy general manager, as well as promoting several senior directors like Eiji Aonuma, Hideki Konno, Takao Shimizu, Tadashi Sugiyama and Katsuya Eguchi to producers overseeing their own development teams in the division. Nevertheless, after the promotion, Miyamoto still went on to produce some games.

In 2002, Nintendo opened a Nintendo EAD studio in Tokyo, appointing Takao Shimizu as manager of the branch. The studio was created with the goal of bringing in fresh new talent from the capital of Japan who wouldn't be willing or able to travel to Kyoto. Their first project was Donkey Kong Jungle Beat for the GameCube which made use of the DK Bongos, initially created for Donkey Konga.

2003–2015: Restructure, new managers, and merger with SPD

On September 30, 2003, as a result of a corporate restructure Nintendo was undergoing, in which several members of the Nintendo R&D1 and R&D2 were reassigned under Nintendo EAD, the department was consolidated into a division and began welcoming a new class of managers and producers.^[13]^{[unreliable source]} Hideki Konno, Katsuya Eguchi, Eiji Aonuma, Hiroyuki Kimura, and Tadashi Sugiyama were appointed project managers of their own groups within the Software Development Department; Shimizu was appointed project manager of the Tokyo Software Development Department, and Keizo Ota and Yasunari Nishida were appointed project managers of their own groups in the Technology Development Department.

In 2013, Katsuya Eguchi was promoted Department Manager of both Software Development Departments in Kyoto and Tokyo. As such, he left his role as Group Manager of Software Development Group No. 2, and was replaced by Hisashi Nogami. On June 18, 2014, the EAD Kyoto branch was moved from the Nintendo Central Office to the Nintendo Development Center in Kyoto. The building housed more than 1100 developers from all of Nintendo's internal research and development divisions, which included the Nintendo EAD, SPD, IRD and SDD divisions. On September 16, 2015, EAD merged with Nintendo Software Planning & Development to establish Entertainment Planning & Development (EPD). The move followed an internal restructuring of Nintendo executives and departments after the death of president Satoru Iwata in July 2015.^[14]

Structure

The Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development division was headed by Nintendo-veteran Takashi Tezuka who acted as general manager. The division was divided in two development departments: one in Kyoto, with Katsuya Eguchi acting as its deputy general manager; and one in Tokyo, with Yoshiaki Koizumi acting as its deputy general manager.

Kyoto Software Development Department

The Nintendo EAD Kyoto Software Development Department was the largest and one of the oldest research and development departments within Nintendo, housing more than 700 video game developers. It was located in Kyoto, Japan, formerly in the Nintendo Central Office, but on June 28, 2014, it was relocated to the new Nintendo Development Center, which housed all of Nintendo's internal research and development divisions.

The development department integrated Nintendo's most notable producers: Hideki Konno, producer of the Nintendogs and Mario Kart series; Katsuya Eguchi, producer of the Wii and Animal Crossing series; Eiji Aonuma, producer of The Legend of Zelda series; Hiroyuki Kimura, producer Big Brain Academy, Super Mario Bros., and Pikmin series; and Tadashi Sugiyama, producer of the Wii Fit, Steel Diver and Star Fox series.

The department was managed by veteran Nintendo game designer Katsuya Eguchi. As such, Hisashi Nogami later succeeded him as the producer of the Animal Crossing franchise and was responsible for the creation of the Splatoon series.

List of video games developed by the Nintendo EAD Software Development Department in Kyoto
Year	Titel	Genre(s)	Platform(s)	Producer(s)	Ref.
1985	Super Mario Bros.	Platform	Nintendo Entertainment System Family Computer Disk System	Shigeru Miyamoto
1986	The Legend of Zelda	Action-adventure	Family Computer Disk System Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
	The Mysterious Murasame Castle	Action-adventure	Family Computer Disk System	Keizo Kato
	Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels	Platform	Family Computer Disk System	Shigeru Miyamoto
1987	Zelda II: The Adventure of Link	Action role-playing	Family Computer Disk System Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic	Platform	Family Computer Disk System	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Famicom Mukashibanashi: Shin Onigashima	Adventure, visual novel	Family Computer Disk System	Hiroshi Ikeda Shigeru Miyamoto
1988	Super Mario Bros. 2^[g]	Platform	Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Ice Hockey^{[codeveloped 1]}	Sports	Family Computer Disk System Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto Masayuki Uemura
	Super Mario Bros. 3	Platform	Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
1990	Super Mario World	Platform	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
	F-Zero	Racing	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto	^[11]
	Pilotwings	Amateur flight simulation	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
1991	SimCity	City-building	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
1991	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past	Action-adventure	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
1992	Wave Race^{[codeveloped 2]}	Racing	Game Boy	Shigeru Miyamoto
1992	Super Mario Kart	Kart racing	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
1993	Star Fox^{[codeveloped 3]}	Rail shooter, Shoot 'em up	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
	The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening	Action-adventure	Game Boy	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Super Mario All-Stars	Platform	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
1994	Stunt Race FX^{[codeveloped 3]}	Racing	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Donkey Kong^{[codeveloped 2]}	Platform, puzzle	Game Boy	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Kirby's Dream Course^{[codeveloped 4]}	Sports	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Satoru Iwata Shigeru Miyamoto
1995	Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island	Platform	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Shigeru Miyamoto
1996	Pilotwings 64^{[codeveloped 5]}^{[codeveloped 6]}	Amateur flight simulation	Nintendo 64	Genyo Takeda Shigeru Miyamoto
	Super Mario 64	Platform	Nintendo 64	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Mole Mania^{[codeveloped 2]}	Puzzle	Game Boy	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Wave Race 64	Racing	Nintendo 64	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Mario Kart 64	Kart racing	Nintendo 64	Shigeru Miyamoto
1997	Star Fox 64	Shoot 'em up	Nintendo 64	Shigeru Miyamoto
1997	Yoshi's Story	Platform	Nintendo 64	Takashi Tezuka
1998	1080° Snowboarding	Sports, racing	Nintendo 64	Shigeru Miyamoto
	F-Zero X	Racing	Nintendo 64	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Pokémon Stadium^{[codeveloped 4]}^{[codeveloped 7]}	Role-playing	Nintendo 64	Kenji Miki Tsunekazu Ishihara Satoru Iwata Shigeru Miyamoto
	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	Action-adventure	Nintendo 64	Shigeru Miyamoto
1999	Pokémon Stadium^{[codeveloped 4]}^{[codeveloped 7]} Pokémon Stadium 2^JP	Role-playing	Nintendo 64	Kenji Miki Tsunekazu Ishihara Satoru Iwata Shigeru Miyamoto
2000	F-Zero X Expansion Kit	Racing	Nintendo 64 (64DD)	Shigeru Miyamoto
	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask	Action-adventure	Nintendo 64	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Pokémon Stadium 2^{[codeveloped 4]}^{[codeveloped 7]} Pokémon Stadium Gold Silver^JP		Nintendo 64	Kenji Miki Tsunekazu Ishihara Satoru Iwata Shigeru Miyamoto
2001	Dōbutsu no Mori	Life simulation	Nintendo 64	Takashi Tezuka
	Luigi's Mansion	Action-adventure	GameCube	Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka
	Pikmin	Real-time strategy	GameCube	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Animal Crossing	Life simulation	GameCube	Takashi Tezuka
2002	Super Mario Sunshine	Platform, action-adventure	GameCube	Shigeru Miyamoto
2002	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker	Action-adventure	GameCube	Shigeru Miyamoto Takashi Tezuka
2003	Dōbutsu no Mori e+	Life simulation	GameCube	Takashi Tezuka
	Mario Kart: Double Dash	Kart racing	GameCube	Shigeru Miyamoto Tadashi Sugiyama Shinya Takahashi Takashi Tezuka
	Pac-Man Vs.	Maze	GameCube	Shigeru Miyamoto
2004	The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures	Action-adventure	GameCube	Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto
	Pikmin 2		GameCube	Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka
	Super Mario 64 DS		Nintendo DS	Shigeru Miyamoto
2005	Yoshi Touch & Go		Nintendo DS	Takashi Tezuka
	Big Brain Academy		Nintendo DS	Hiroyuki Kimura
	Nintendogs		Nintendo DS	Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto
	Mario Kart DS	Racing	Nintendo DS	Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto
	Animal Crossing: Wild World	Social simulation	Nintendo DS	Katsuya Eguchi, Takashi Tezuka
2006	New Super Mario Bros.	Platform	Nintendo DS	Hiroyuki Kimura, Takashi Tezuka
	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess		GameCube Wii	Shigeru Miyamoto
	Wii Sports	Sports	Wii	Katsuya Eguchi Kiyoshi Mizuki
	Wii Play	Party	Wii	Katsuya Eguchi
2007	Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree	Edutainment	Wii	Hiroyuki Kimura
	The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass	Action-adventure	Nintendo DS	Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto
	Link's Crossbow Training	First-person shooter	Wii	Eiji Aonuma
2008	Wii Fit	Exergaming	Wii	Tadashi Sugiyama, Shigeru Miyamoto, Takao Sawano
	Mario Kart Wii	Racing	Wii	Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto
	Wii Music		Wii	Takashi Tezuka, Katsuya Eguchi
	Animal Crossing: City Folk	Social simulation	Wii	Katsuya Eguchi
	New Play Control! Pikmin	Real-time strategy	Wii	Hiroyuki Kimura
	New Play Control! Pikmin 2	Real-time strategy	Wii	Hiroyuki Kimura
2009	Wii Sports Resort	Sports	Wii	Katsuya Eguchi
	Wii Fit Plus	Exergaming	Wii	Tadashi Sugiyama, Shigeru Miyamoto
	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	Platform	Wii	Takashi Tezuka, Hiroyuki Kimura, Shigeru Miyamoto
	The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks	Action-adventure	Nintendo DS	Shigeru Miyamoto, Eiji Aonuma
2011	Nintendogs + Cats	Digital pet	Nintendo 3DS	Hideki Konno
	Steel Diver^{[codeveloped 8]}		Nintendo 3DS	Tadashi Sugiyama
	Super Mario 3D Land		Nintendo 3DS	Yoshiaki Koizumi
	Mario Kart 7		3DS	Hideki Konno
	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword	Action-adventure	Wii	Eiji Aonuma
2012	New Super Mario Bros. 2		3DS	Takashi Tezuka, Hiroyuki Kimura, Shigeru Miyamoto
	Animal Crossing: New Leaf		3DS	Katsuya Eguchi
	New Super Mario Bros. U		Wii U	Takashi Tezuka, Hiroyuki Kimura, Shigeru Miyamoto
	Nintendo Land		Wii U	Katsuya Eguchi
2013	Pikmin 3		Wii U	Hiroyuki Kimura
	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD		Wii U	Eiji Aonuma
	Wii Fit U		Wii U	Tadashi Sugiyama
	The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds		3DS	Eiji Aonuma
2014	Steel Diver: Sub Wars^{[codeveloped 8]}		3DS	Tadashi Sugiyama
2015	Splatoon	Third-person shooter	Wii U	Hisashi Nogami
	Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer		3DS	Hisashi Nogami
	Super Mario Maker		Wii U	Takashi Tezuka, Hiroyuki Kimura

Technology Development Department

List of video games developed by the Nintendo EAD Technology Development Department
Year	Titel	Genre(s)	Platform(s)
1999	Mario Artist: Paint Studio^{[codeveloped 9]}	Graphics software	64DD
2000	Mario Artist: Talent Studio
	Mario Artist: Polygon Studio
	Mario Artist: Communication Kit

Tokyo Software Development Department

The Nintendo EAD Tokyo Software Development Department was created in 2002 with the goal of bringing in fresh new talent from the capital of Japan who wouldn't be willing to travel hundreds of miles away to Kyoto. It is located in Tokyo, Japan, in the Nintendo Tokyo Office.

In 2003, twenty members of the Entertainment Analysis & Development Division in Kyoto volunteered to relocate to Nintendo's Tokyo Office to expand development resources. These twenty volunteers were primarily from the Super Mario Sunshine team. Management saw it as a good opportunity to expand and recruit several developers who were more comfortable living in Tokyo than relocating to Kyoto.

Takao Shimizu (original manager and producer) and Yoshiaki Koizumi (director) began hiring several recruits in Tokyo coming from several established companies like SEGA, Koei, and Square-Enix. Shimizu and Koizumi jointly spearheaded their first project, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. This was followed in 2007 by the release of the critically and commercially acclaimed Super Mario Galaxy. After the release of Super Mario Galaxy, Koizumi was promoted to manager and producer and officially opened Tokyo Software Development Group No. 2.

The Tokyo group had veteran game developer Katsuya Eguchi as its general manager, who also oversaw development operations for the Kyoto Software Development Department.

List of video games developed by the Nintendo EAD Software Development Department No.1 in Tokyo
Year	Titel	Genre(s)	Platform(s)
2004	Donkey Kong Jungle Beat	Platform	GameCube
2007	Super Mario Galaxy	Platform	Wii
2009	Nintendo DS Guide: Ikspiari^{[codeveloped 10]}	Tour guide	Nintendo DS
	Nintendo DS Guide: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art^{[codeveloped 10]}	Tour guide	Nintendo DS
	Nintendo DS Guide: Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan^{[codeveloped 10]}	Tour guide	Nintendo DS
2010	Nintendo DS Guide: Make It Yourself!^{[codeveloped 10]}	Tour guide	Nintendo DSi (DSiWare)
2011	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D^{[codeveloped 11]}	Action-adventure	Nintendo 3DS
2011	The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition^{[codeveloped 11]}	Action-adventure	Nintendo DSi (DSiWare)
2013	Photos with Mario	Augmented reality	Nintendo 3DS
	Wii U Panorama View	Panorama viewer	Wii U
	Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre^{[codeveloped 12]}^{[codeveloped 10]}	Tour guide	Nintendo 3DS
2015	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D^{[codeveloped 11]}	Action-adventure	Nintendo 3DS

List of video games developed by the Nintendo EAD Software Development Department No. 2 in Tokyo
Year	Titel	Genre(s)	Platform(s)	Producer(s)
2008	New Play Control: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat	Platform	Wii	Yoshiaki Koizumi
2008	Flipnote Studio	Animation	Nintendo DSi (DSiWare)	Yoshiaki Koizumi
2010	Super Mario Galaxy 2	Platform	Wii	Yoshiaki Koizumi Takashi Tezuka
2011	Super Mario 3D Land	Platform	Nintendo 3DS	Yoshiaki Koizumi
2013	Flipnote Studio 3D	Animation	Nintendo 3DS	Yoshiaki Koizumi
	Super Mario 3D World	Platform	Wii U	Yoshiaki Koizumi
	NES Remix^{[codeveloped 12]}	Compilation	Wii U	Yoshiaki Koizumi Masanobu Suzui (Indieszero)
2014	NES Remix 2^{[codeveloped 12]}	Compilation	Wii U	Yoshiaki Koizumi Masanobu Suzui (Indieszero)
2014	Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker	Platform, puzzle	Wii U	Koichi Hayashida

List of software developed

The following is a list of software developed by the Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division.

List of video games developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
Year	Titel	Genre(s)	Platform(s)
1985	Super Mario Bros.	Platform	Nintendo Entertainment System
1986	The Legend of Zelda	Action-adventure	Nintendo Entertainment System
	The Mysterious Murasame Castle	Action-adventure	Family Computer Disk System
	Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels	Platform	Family Computer Disk System
1987	Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic		Family Computer Disk System
	Super Mario Bros. 2	Platform	Nintendo Entertainment System
	Zelda II: The Adventure of Link	Action RPG	Nintendo Entertainment System
1988	Ice Hockey	Sports	Nintendo Entertainment System
1988	Super Mario Bros. 3	Platform	Nintendo Entertainment System
1990	Super Mario World	Platform	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
	F-Zero	Racing	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
	Pilotwings	Simulator	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1991	SimCity	Simulator	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1991	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past	Action-adventure	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1992	Wave Race	Sports	Game Boy
1992	Super Mario Kart	Racing	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1993	Super Mario All-Stars	Compilation, platform	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
	Star Fox^{[codeveloped 3]}		Super Nintendo Entertainment System
	The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening	Action-adventure	Game Boy
1994	Donkey Kong	Platform	Game Boy
1994	Stunt Race FX^{[codeveloped 3]}		Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1995	Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island		Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1996	Mole Mania		Game Boy
	Super Mario 64	Platform	Nintendo 64
	Pilotwings 64^{[codeveloped 6]}^{[codeveloped 5]}	Simulator	Nintendo 64
	Wave Race 64	Sports	Nintendo 64
	Mario Kart 64	Racing	Nintendo 64
1997	Star Fox 64	Shoot em' up	Nintendo 64
1997	Yoshi's Story		Nintendo 64
1998	F-Zero X	Racing	Nintendo 64
	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	Action-adventure	Nintendo 64
	1080° Snowboarding	Sports	Nintendo 64
	Pokémon Stadium^[h]^{[codeveloped 7]}^[15]		Nintendo 64
1999	Pokémon Stadium^{[codeveloped 4]}^{[codeveloped 7]}		Nintendo 64
1999	Mario Artist: Paint Studio^{[codeveloped 9]}		64DD
2000	Mario Artist: Communication Kit		64DD
	Mario Artist: Polygon Studio		64DD
	Mario Artist: Talent Studio		64DD
	F-Zero X Expansion Kit	Racing	64DD
	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask	Action-adventure	Nintendo 64
	Pokémon Stadium 2^{[codeveloped 4]}^{[codeveloped 7]}		Nintendo 64
2001	Luigi's Mansion		GameCube
	Pikmin	Real-time strategy	GameCube
	Dōbutsu no Mori	Social simulation	Nintendo 64
2002	Animal Crossing	Social simulation	GameCube
2002	Super Mario Sunshine		GameCube
2003	Pokémon Box: Ruby and Sapphire		GameCube
	Dōbutsu no Mori e+	Social simulation	GameCube
	Mario Kart: Double Dash	Racing	GameCube
	Pac-Man Vs.	Maze	GameCube
	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker		GameCube
2004	The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures	Action-adventure	GameCube
	Pikmin 2		GameCube
	Super Mario 64 DS		Nintendo DS
2004	Donkey Kong Jungle Beat		GameCube
2005	Yoshi Touch & Go		Nintendo DS
	Big Brain Academy		Nintendo DS
	Nintendogs		Nintendo DS
	Mario Kart DS	Racing	Nintendo DS
	Animal Crossing: Wild World	Social simulation	Nintendo DS
2006	New Super Mario Bros.	Platform	Nintendo DS
	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess	Action-adventure	GameCube, Wii
	Wii Sports	Sports	Wii
	Wii Play	Party	Wii
2007	Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree	Edutainment	Wii
	The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass	Action-adventure	Nintendo DS
	Super Mario Galaxy		Wii
	Link's Crossbow Training	First-person shooter	Wii
2008	Wii Fit	Exergaming	Wii
	Mario Kart Wii	Racing	Wii
	Wii Music		Wii
	Animal Crossing: City Folk	Social simulation	Wii
	Flipnote Studio		Nintendo DSi
	New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat		Wii
	New Play Control! Pikmin	Real-time strategy	Wii
	New Play Control! Pikmin 2	Real-time strategy	Wii
2009	Wii Sports Resort	Sports	Wii
	Wii Fit Plus	Exergaming	Wii
	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	Platform	Wii
	The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks	Action-adventure	Nintendo DS
2010	Super Mario Galaxy 2		Wii
2011	Nintendogs + Cats	Digital pet	Nintendo 3DS
	Steel Diver^{[codeveloped 8]}		Nintendo 3DS
	Super Mario 3D Land		Nintendo 3DS
	Mario Kart 7		3DS
	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword		Wii
2012	New Super Mario Bros. 2		3DS
	Animal Crossing: New Leaf		3DS
	New Super Mario Bros. U		Wii U
	Nintendo Land		Wii U
2013	Pikmin 3		Wii U
	Flipnote Studio 3D		3DS
	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD		Wii U
	Wii Fit U		Wii U
	Super Mario 3D World		Wii U
	The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds		3DS
	NES Remix		Wii U
2014	NES Remix 2		Wii U
	Steel Diver: Sub Wars^{[codeveloped 8]}		3DS
	Mario Kart 8		Wii U
	Wii Sports Club^{[codeveloped 13]}		Wii U
	Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker		Wii U
2015	Splatoon	Third-person shooter	Wii U
	Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer	Sandbox	3DS
	Super Mario Maker	Level editor	Wii U

Notes

^ ^a ^b Former General Manager
^ General Manager
^ ^a ^b Deputy General Manager
^ ^a ^b Group Manager
^ Japanese: 任天堂情報開発本部, Hepburn: Nintendō Jōhō Kaihatsu Honbu
^ Known in Japan as Nintendō Kaihatsu Daiyon Bu (任天堂開発第四発).
^ Based on Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic.
^ Co-developed by HAL Laboratory.

^ Codeveloped with Nintendo Research & Development 2.
^ ^a ^b ^c Codeveloped with Pax Softnica.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Codeveloped with Argonaut Software.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Codeveloped with HAL Laboratory.
^ ^a ^b Codeveloped with Nintendo Research & Development 3.
^ ^a ^b Codeveloped with Paradigm Entertainment.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Codeveloped with Creatures.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Co-developed by Vitei
^ ^a ^b Co-developed by Software Creations.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Codeveloped by the Nintendo EAD Technology Development Department.
^ ^a ^b ^c Codeveloped by Grezzo.
^ ^a ^b ^c Codeveloped by indieszero.
^ Codeveloped with Bandai Namco Studios.

References

^ "Using the D-pad to Jump". Iwata Asks: Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary Vol. 5: Original Super Mario Developers. Nintendo. February 1, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
^ "I'd Never Heard Of Pac-Man". Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Vol. 2. Nintendo. December 11, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
^ "Iwata Asks". iwataasks.nintendo.com. Retrieved June 14, 2020. Iwata: How many years after you joined Nintendo did Ikeda-san become your boss? / Miyamoto: About 7 or 8 years, I think. About the time we were making Super Mario Bros. [...] He was the first manager of the Entertainment Analysis and Development Department.
^ Paumgarten, Nick (December 13, 2010). "Nintendo's Guiding Spirit". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 14, 2020. In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga. [...] Yamauchi hired him to be an apprentice in the planning department.
^ "Inside Nintendo 52: Nintendos unbekannte Anime-Urgesteine". Nintendo-Online.de (in German). Retrieved June 14, 2020.
^ "Hiroshi Ikeda". VG Legacy. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
^ Gifford, Kevin. "Super Mario Bros.' 25th: Miyamoto Reveals All". 1UP.com. Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
^ Horowitz, Ken (July 30, 2020). Beyond Donkey Kong: A History of Nintendo Arcade Games. McFarland & Company. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-4766-4176-8.
^ "Nintendo EAD". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on July 8, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ "Iwata Asks: Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre". Nintendo of Europe GmbH. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES developer interview - Volume 2: F-ZERO". Nintendo. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Takao Imamura, Shigeru Miyamoto (1997). Nintendo Power August, 1997 - Pak Watch E3 Report "The Game Masters". Nintendo. pp. 104–105.
^ N-Sider. Nintendo Revolution FAQ Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^ Kohler, Chris. "Nintendo Consolidates Its Game Development Teams". Wired. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
^ This version of Pokémon Stadium was only released in Japan.

[Former_General_Manager-1] Former General Manager

[General_Manager-2] General Manager

[Deputy_General_Manager-3] Deputy General Manager

[Group_Manager-4] Group Manager

[5] Japanese: 任天堂情報開発本部, Hepburn: Nintendō Jōhō Kaihatsu Honbu

[6] Known in Japan as Nintendō Kaihatsu Daiyon Bu (任天堂開発第四発).

[21] Based on Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic.

[HAL_Laboratory-34] Co-developed by HAL Laboratory.

[Nintendo_R&D2-22] Codeveloped with Nintendo Research & Development 2.

[Pax_Softnica-23] Codeveloped with Pax Softnica.

[Argonaut_Software-24] Codeveloped with Argonaut Software.

[HAL_Laboratory-25] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Codeveloped with HAL Laboratory.

[Nintendo_R&D3-26] Codeveloped with Nintendo Research & Development 3.

[Paradigm_Entertainment-27] Codeveloped with Paradigm Entertainment.

[Creatures-28] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Codeveloped with Creatures.

[Vitei-29] Co-developed by Vitei

[Software_Creations-30] Co-developed by Software Creations.

[EAD-TDD-31] Codeveloped by the Nintendo EAD Technology Development Department.

[Grezzo-32] Codeveloped by Grezzo.

[indieszero-33] Codeveloped by indieszero.

[Bandai_Namco_Studios-36] Codeveloped with Bandai Namco Studios.

[7] "Using the D-pad to Jump". Iwata Asks: Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary Vol. 5: Original Super Mario Developers. Nintendo. February 1, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2011.

[8] "I'd Never Heard Of Pac-Man". Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Vol. 2. Nintendo. December 11, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2011.

[9] "Iwata Asks". iwataasks.nintendo.com. Retrieved June 14, 2020. Iwata: How many years after you joined Nintendo did Ikeda-san become your boss? / Miyamoto: About 7 or 8 years, I think. About the time we were making Super Mario Bros. [...] He was the first manager of the Entertainment Analysis and Development Department.

[10] Paumgarten, Nick (December 13, 2010). "Nintendo's Guiding Spirit". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 14, 2020. In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga. [...] Yamauchi hired him to be an apprentice in the planning department.

[11] "Inside Nintendo 52: Nintendos unbekannte Anime-Urgesteine". Nintendo-Online.de (in German). Retrieved June 14, 2020.

[12] "Hiroshi Ikeda". VG Legacy. Retrieved June 14, 2020.

[Miyamoto_Reveals_All-13] Gifford, Kevin. "Super Mario Bros.' 25th: Miyamoto Reveals All". 1UP.com. Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2010.

[14] Horowitz, Ken (July 30, 2020). Beyond Donkey Kong: A History of Nintendo Arcade Games. McFarland & Company. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-4766-4176-8.

[renaming-15] "Nintendo EAD". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on July 8, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[16] "Iwata Asks: Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre". Nintendo of Europe GmbH. Retrieved January 10, 2019.

[F-Zero_Interview-17] "Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES developer interview - Volume 2: F-ZERO". Nintendo. Retrieved January 15, 2019.

[npinterview-18] Takao Imamura, Shigeru Miyamoto (1997). Nintendo Power August, 1997 - Pak Watch E3 Report "The Game Masters". Nintendo. pp. 104–105.

[19] N-Sider. Nintendo Revolution FAQ Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine

[20] Kohler, Chris. "Nintendo Consolidates Its Game Development Teams". Wired. Retrieved September 15, 2015.

[35] This version of Pokémon Stadium was only released in Japan.

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