Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company which develops and manufactures its own line of video games and consoles. It was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi on September 23, 1889 as a company which produced  playing cards. Since 1977, with the release of the Color TV-Game, Nintendo has been a video game developer and console manufacturer.

Nintendo has published every game in the Super Smash Bros. series. Prior to Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the series only had representation for Nintendo franchises, such as Mario and The Legend of Zelda. While later Super Smash Bros. games still mainly represent Nintendo franchises, they also have representation for some third-party franchises, such as Sonic the Hedgehog.