Nintendo Fandom
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| Name(s): | Nintendo |
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| Scope/Focus: | all Nintendo fandoms |
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Fandoms for individual Nintendo games exist, but many people are fans of multiple works or of Nintendo games in general.
Because their games are exclusive to their own consoles, and are never ported to any other systems, emulators on PC are usually required to play old games.
Their first established series was Donkey Kong, established in 1981. They followed with the Mario series, starting with the arcade game Mario Bros. and the Super Mario Bros. games on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Games
Nintendo's largest and most recognizable game is Smash Bros., a crossover platform fighting game that allows characters from Nintendo's various franchises to fight each other, either in hand-to-hand combat or with weapons/powers/abilities that have been scaled to be equivalent with others. The Smash Bros. roster often has Nintendo's most recognizable characters from their most prominent franchises.
These games and characters include:
- Super Mario: Nintendo's most notable franchise, having spawned the classics such as the Mario Bros game series as well as Mario Kart and Mario Party. This franchise includes iconic characters such as Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Daisy, Bowser, Wario, and Waluigi.
- Donkey Kong: The franchise that inspired the Super Mario series, this includes characters such as the titular Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong
- Legend of Zelda: An action-adventure story game franchise featuring Link, Zelda, Ganondorf, and many others.
- Kirby: An action-platform franchise starring the titular character, Kirby, as well as their companions, accomplices, and foes, such as King Dedede and Meta Knight
- Metroid: An action-adventure game following Samus Aran, a galactical bounty hunter
- Earthbound: Also known as the Mother video game series outside of Japan, this RPG features characters who are also seen in Smash, including Ness and Lucas, though no new game in the series has been released since 2006
- Pokémon: Nintendo's most successful and the highest-grossing franchise in the world, Pokémon consists of a variety of characters across nearly ten generations of games, anime, and manga, and over 1000 species of individual Pokémon alone.
- Splatoon: The first third-person shooter originally released by Nintendo, Splatoon has characters such as Callie, Marie, Pearl, and Marina, as well as playable unnamed characters, such as Inkling or Agent 8
- Nintendo-platform based RPGs such as Miitopia, involving Miis (introduced during the release of the Wii), and Wii Sports
Many games not published by Nintendo are also playable on some Nintendo platforms, such as on the Nintendo Switch. See this list for games that are officially published by Nintendo.
Fanworks
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Fanfics
Fanart
Fanvids
- Wii Shop Bling by tunedlink (2015)
Meta
- "Why is Nintendo so Overprotective of its Intellectual Property?" by Moon Channel (2023)
Communities and Archives
Deviant Groups
Nintendo's "Hostility" To Fandom
Nintendo has become notorious for issuing takedowns and threatening legal action against game mods and fangames that use its trademarks. Even fully original games are routinely chased off the Internet if they are called "Pokemon Uranium" or "Mother 4". Notably, Nintendo is known to have taken legal action against people who attempt to distribute mods for their games, as well as a spree in early 2023 (just before the release of Tears of the Kingdom) of cracking down on videos of game mods of Breath of the Wild.[1]
Nintendo is also perceived as hostile towards those "playing the game wrong", such as refusing to support professional-level tournaments of Super Smash Brothers that do not use items, Final Smashes, stages with hazards, or other perceived-"casual" features of the game.
Nintendo fandom almost uniformly sees these policies as unreasonable and immoral, generally complaining that these are moves "targeted towards the most loyal fans" and are tantamount to "turning down free publicity".