Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development

Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division,[lower-alpha 5] commonly abbreviated as Nintendo EAD and formerly known as Nintendo Research & Development No.4 Department[lower-alpha 6] (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.

Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division
Native name
任天堂情報開発本部
Nintendō Jōhō Kaihatsu Honbu
FormerlyNintendo Research & Development No.4 Department
(until early 90s)
TypeDivision
IndustryVideo games
Predecessors
FoundedSeptember 30, 1983 (September 30, 1983) in Kyoto, Japan
FounderHiroshi Yamauchi
DefunctSeptember 16, 2015 (2015-09-16)
FateMerged with Nintendo Software Planning & Development
SuccessorNintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
Headquarters,
Japan
Number of locations
2 (Kyoto and Tokyo)
Key people
ProductsList of games developed
ServicesVideo game development
ParentNintendo

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

The success of Shigeru Miyamoto's Donkey Kong arcade game was a deciding factor in the creation of Nintendo R&D4.

Around 1983/1984, in the wake of Donkey Kong's commercial success, a game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, 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 game titles for dedicated consoles, complementing the other three existing departments in the Nintendo Manufacturing Division, green-lit by then-Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi.[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][10] 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.[11] 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 Games 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.[12]

In 1997, Miyamoto explained that about twenty to thirty employees were devoted to each Nintendo EAD title during the course of its development.[13] 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.[13]

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.[9] Nevertheless, after the promotion, Miyamoto still went on to produce some games.

On November 24, 2000, Nintendo moved its Japanese headquarters, along with its internal teams, into a newly built facility. The new building was primarily built to provide a more expansive workplace for Nintendo's growing development teams.[9]

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.[14] 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 into a single game development division, Entertainment Planning & Development (EPD). The move followed an internal restructuring of Nintendo executives and departments after the death of former president Satoru Iwata in July 2015.[15]

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

Katsuya Eguchi, Deputy General Manager of the Nintendo EAD division in Kyoto

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 Title 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[lower-alpha 7] 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 [12]
Pilotwings Amateur flight simulation Super Nintendo Entertainment System Shigeru Miyamoto
1991 SimCity City-building Super Nintendo Entertainment System Shigeru Miyamoto
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
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
1995 Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Platform Super Nintendo Entertainment System Shigeru Miyamoto
1996 Pilotwings 64[codeveloped 4][codeveloped 5] 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
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 6][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 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
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
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 (with Vitei) 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 (with Vitei) 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 Title Genre(s) Platform(s)
1999 Mario Artist: Paint Studio[codeveloped 8] Graphics software 64DD
2000 Mario Artist: Talent Studio
Mario Artist: Polygon Studio
Mario Artist: Communication Kit

Tokyo Software Development Department

Yoshiaki Koizumi became manager of a second department of the Nintendo EAD division in Tokyo after 2007.

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 Title Genre(s) Platform(s)
2004 Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Platform GameCube
2005 Mario Kart DS Racing Nintendo DS
2007 Super Mario Galaxy Platform Wii
2009 Nintendo DS Guide: Ikspiari[codeveloped 9] Tour guide Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS Guide: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art[codeveloped 9] Tour guide Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS Guide: Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan[codeveloped 9] Tour guide Nintendo DS
2010 Nintendo DS Guide: Make It Yourself![codeveloped 9] Tour guide Nintendo DSi
(DSiWare)
2011 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D[codeveloped 10] Action-adventure Nintendo 3DS
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition[codeveloped 10] 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 11][codeveloped 9] Tour guide Nintendo 3DS
2015 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D[codeveloped 10] Action-adventure Nintendo 3DS
List of video games developed by the Nintendo EAD Software Development Department No. 2 in Tokyo
Year Title Genre(s) Platform(s) Producer(s)
2008 New Play Control: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Platform Wii Yoshiaki Koizumi
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 11] Compilation Wii U Yoshiaki Koizumi
Masanobu Suzui (Indieszero)
2014 NES Remix 2[codeveloped 11] Compilation Wii U Yoshiaki Koizumi
Masanobu Suzui (Indieszero)
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 Title 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
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
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Action-adventure Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1992 Wave Race Sports Game Boy
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
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 5][codeveloped 4] Simulator Nintendo 64
Wave Race 64 Sports Nintendo 64
Mario Kart 64 Racing Nintendo 64
1997 Star Fox 64 Shoot em' up Nintendo 64
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[lower-alpha 8][codeveloped 7][16] Nintendo 64
1999 Pokémon Stadium[codeveloped 6][codeveloped 7] Nintendo 64
Mario Artist: Paint Studio[codeveloped 8] 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 6][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
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 12] 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 12] 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

  1. Former General Manager
  2. General Manager
  3. Deputy General 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).
  7. Based on Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic.
  8. Co-developed by HAL Laboratory.
  1. Codeveloped with Nintendo Research & Development 2.
  2. Codeveloped with Pax Softnica.
  3. Codeveloped with Argonaut Games.
  4. Codeveloped with Nintendo Research & Development 3.
  5. Codeveloped with Paradigm Entertainment.
  6. Codeveloped with HAL Laboratory.
  7. Codeveloped with Creatures.
  8. Co-developed by Software Creations.
  9. Codeveloped by the Nintendo EAD Technology Development Department.
  10. Codeveloped by Grezzo.
  11. Codeveloped by indieszero.
  12. Co-developed by Vitei
  13. Codeveloped with Bandai Namco Studios.

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