This is a list of video game franchises published by Nintendo, organized alphabetically. All entries had at least one video game released.
– This color indicates a sub-series of a larger video game franchise.
style=max-width:4em | Franchise | style=max-width:4em | Developer(s) | style=max-width:4em | Initial entry | style=max-width:3em | Date | style=max-width:4em | Latest entry | style=max-width:3em | Date | style=max-width:5em | Description | style=max-width:3em class="unsortable" | |
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1-2-Switch | 1-2-Switch | Everybody 1-2-Switch! | A series of party games that utilize the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers. | ||||||||||||
1080° | 1080° Snowboarding | 1080° Avalanche | A snowboarding-based sports game series first released on the Nintendo 64. | [1] [2] | |||||||||||
Animal Crossing | Animal Crossing | A social simulation and iyashekei series created by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami. The games star a player's life in a community where they interact with anthropomorphic residents known as villagers. | [3] [4] [5] | ||||||||||||
Another Code | Cing | A point-and-click adventure series where players control Ashely Mizuki Robbins, who navigates through 3D environments to solve puzzles. | [6] [7] | ||||||||||||
ARMS | ARMS | A 3D fighting game with an unconventional fighting system where playable characters fight with long range attacks thanks to their extendable arms.The game has received five major updates post-launch, with Version 5.0 releasing December 21, 2017. | [8] | ||||||||||||
Art Academy | Art Academy | Disney Art Academy | A series of edutainment games that provide training simulations aimed to teach players to draw. | [9] [10] | |||||||||||
Art Style | Orbient / Orbital | Rotozoa / Penta Tentacles | A successor to the bit Generations series released on DSiWare and WiiWare that emphasizes "elegant design [and] polished graphics" that create "an experience focused purely on fun and engaging game play", with different entries being in different genres from each other. | [11] [12] [13] [14] | |||||||||||
Balloon Fight | Vs. Balloon Fight | Latest original entry: Tingle's Balloon Fight Latest entry: Arcade Archives VS. BALLOON FIGHT | An action game series where the player controls a Balloon fighter with two balloons strapped to their head. If all of a player's balloons pop, or if the player falls in water, gets eaten by a piranha, or gets struck by lightning, a life is lost. | [15] [16] [17] | |||||||||||
Battle Clash | Battle Clash | A sci-fi and mecha-themed light gun shooter series using the Super Scope that focuses on one-on-one arena combat. | [18] [19] | ||||||||||||
Big Brain Academy | Big Brain Academy | A series of puzzle games that contain many minigames aimed to test, score, and improve a player's intellect. | [20] [21] | ||||||||||||
bit Generations | A set of seven Game Boy Advance games released over two "series" in 2006. The games are all very simple in concept, though they focus on replayability. | [22] | |||||||||||||
BoxBoy! | BOXBOY! | BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL! | A series of puzzle-platformer games starring Qbby, and later Qucy, two square-shaped characters able to create a line of adjacent boxes to navigate through many short stages. | [23] [24] [25] | |||||||||||
Brain Age | Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch | [26] | |||||||||||||
Card Hero | [27] | ||||||||||||||
Chibi-Robo! | Skip Ltd. | Chibi-Robo! | Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash | ||||||||||||
Classic Books | Genius Sonority | 100 Classic Book Collection | Chotto DS Bungaku Zenshu: Sekai no Bungaku 20 | An e-book app containing public-domain literature. | [28] | ||||||||||
Clubhouse Games | Clubhouse Games | ||||||||||||||
Clu Clu Land | Clu Clu Land | ||||||||||||||
Crosswords | Crosswords DS | Crosswords Plus | |||||||||||||
Cruis'n | Cruis'n USA | Cruis'n Blast | |||||||||||||
Custom Robo | NOISE | Custom Robo | Custom Robo Arena | ||||||||||||
Daigasso! Band Brothers / Jam with the Band | Daigasso! Band Brothers | ||||||||||||||
Detective Pikachu | Creatures | Detective Pikachu | Detective Pikachu Returns | An adventure sub-series of the Pokémon franchise which focuses on the player solving mysteries with a gruff-talking Pikachu. | |||||||||||
Dillon | Vanpool | Dillon's Rolling Western | Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers | ||||||||||||
DK: King of Swing | Paon | DK: King of Swing | February 4, 2005 | DK: Jungle Climber | August 9, 2007 | Sub-series of the Donkey Kong franchise. | |||||||||
Donkey Kong | Donkey Kong | [29] | |||||||||||||
Donkey Kong Country | Donkey Kong Country | Sub-series of the Donkey Kong franchise. | |||||||||||||
Donkey Konga | Namco | Donkey Konga | Donkey Konga 3 | A rhythm game based sub-series of the Donkey Kong franchise that uses the uses a special controller called the DK Bongos. | |||||||||||
Dr. Mario | Dr. Mario | Dr. Mario World | A falling block puzzle game that is a sub-series of the Mario franchise. | ||||||||||||
Dragalia Lost | Dragalia Lost | September 28, 2018 | An action-role-playing game originating on IOS and Android devices. The game received numerous updates before being discontinued on November 30, 2022. | [30] | |||||||||||
EarthBound / Mother | EarthBound Beginnings / Mother | Mother 3 | A series of role-playing games. The games are known as Mother inside of Japan and Earthbound outside of Japan. | ||||||||||||
Eggerland / Adventures of Lolo | HAL Laboratory | Eggerland Mystery | Eggerland for Windows 95 | A series of puzzle games. | |||||||||||
Electroplankton | indieszero | Electroplankton | Elektroplankton Varvoice and Marine-Crystals | An interactive music video game developed for the Nintendo DS. The game was later released on DSiware in separate installments. | [31] | ||||||||||
Elite Beat Agents | iNiS | Elite Beat Agents | Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 | ||||||||||||
Endless Ocean | Arika | Endless Ocean | Endless Ocean Luminous | ||||||||||||
Excite | Excitebike | ||||||||||||||
Famicom Detective Club | Nintendo R&D1 Mages (remake) | Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club | August 29, 2024 | [32] | |||||||||||
Famicom Fairytales | Famicom Mukashibanashi: Shin Onigashima (Disk 1) | ||||||||||||||
Fire Emblem | Intelligent Systems | Fire Emblem Engage | [33] | ||||||||||||
Fire Emblem Warriors | Fire Emblem Warriors | A Hack and Slash sub-series of the Fire Emblem franchise. | |||||||||||||
Flipnote Studio | Flipnote Studio | Flipnote Studio 3D | An application that allows users to create word and picture-based notes to combine them to create a frame-by-frame flipbook animation. | ||||||||||||
Fluidity | Curve Studios | Fluidity | |||||||||||||
Fossil Fighters | Fossil Fighters | ||||||||||||||
F-1 Race | HAL Laboratory | F-1 Race | Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally | ||||||||||||
F-Zero | F-Zero | F-Zero 99 | A series of futuristic racing games. The series is known for the high speed feeling of the game. | [34] | |||||||||||
Game & Watch | Game & Watch: Ball | April 28, 1980 | |||||||||||||
Game & Watch Gallery | Game Boy Gallery | Game & Watch Gallery 4 | A spin-off of the Game & Watch hand-held system games, compiling and remaking them. | ||||||||||||
Golden Sun | Camelot | Golden Sun | |||||||||||||
Golf | Golf | A series of video games based on the real-life sport Golf. | [35] | ||||||||||||
Hotel Dusk / Kyle Hyde | Cing | ||||||||||||||
Hyrule Warriors | Omega Force | Hyrule Warriors | A Hack and Slash sub-series of The Legend of Zelda franchise. The style of game that Hyrule Warriors is based on is the Dynasty Warriors. | ||||||||||||
Ice Climber | Nintendo R&D1 | Ice Climber | January 30, 1985 | ||||||||||||
Ken Griffey Jr. | Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball | Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest | Nintendo published baseball games focusing on baseball player Ken Griffey Jr. | ||||||||||||
Ketzal's Corridors / Thru | Keys Factory | ThruSpace | Ketzal's Corridors | ||||||||||||
Kid Icarus | Kid Icarus | ||||||||||||||
Kirby | HAL Laboratory | Kirby's Dream Land | Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe | An action-platformer series starring a pink "puffball" of the same name. Created by Masahiro Sakurai and currently under the direction of Shinya Kumazaki, the series is noted for its welcoming, beginner-friendly nature while providing depth for players who seek it, in terms of both gameplay and story. | |||||||||||
Kirby Clash | Team Kirby Clash Deluxe | April 12, 2017 | Super Kirby Clash | September 4, 2019 | An action role-playing spin-off of the Kirby series, originating as a mini game in Kirby: Planet Robobot. | ||||||||||
Kirby Fighters | Kirby Fighters Deluxe | July 23, 2014 | Kirby Fighters 2 | September 23, 2020 | A fighting game spin-off of the Kirby series, originating as a mini game in . | ||||||||||
Kururin | Eighting | Kuru Kuru Kururin | Kururin Squash! | ||||||||||||
The Legendary Starfy | TOSE | Densetsu no Stafy | The Legendary Starfy | A platformer series where players control the titular Starfy. | |||||||||||
The Legend of Zelda | The Legend of Zelda | The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom | September 26, 2024 | The Legend of Zelda is an action-adventure video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. The series of games follows different incarnations of the courageous hero, Link, who rescues the namesake of the series, Zelda - a magical princess of the land of Hyrule - from the clutches of the evil Ganon. | |||||||||||
Luigi | Mario is Missing! | Sub-series of the Mario franchise with Mario's brother, Luigi, as the primary playable character. | |||||||||||||
Magical Vacation | Brownie Brown | Magical Vacation | Magical Starsign | ||||||||||||
Magnetica | Mitchell Corporation | Magnetica | Magnetica Twist | ||||||||||||
Mario + Rabbids | Ubisoft Milan Ubisoft Paris | Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle | Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope | Sub-series of the Mario franchise and Ubisoft's Raving Rabbids franchise. | |||||||||||
Mario Artist | Mario Artist: Paint Studio | Mario Artist: Polygon Studio | Sub-series of the Mario franchise, on the Nintendo 64 DD. The series is a successor to the 1992 SNES game, Mario Paint. | ||||||||||||
Mario Baseball | Namco/Namco Bandai Games | Mario Superstar Baseball | Mario Super Sluggers | A sports video game sub-series of the Mario franchise about playing baseball. | |||||||||||
Mario Discovery / Mario's Early Years | Mario is Missing! | A series of education Mario games, officially licensed by Nintendo and developed by The Software Toolworks (Mindscape). | [36] | ||||||||||||
Mario Golf | Camelot | Mario Golf | A sports video game sub-series of the Mario franchise about playing golf. | Nintendo EAD Nintendo EPD | |||||||||||
Mario Kart | Super Mario Kart | A racing game sub-series of the Mario franchise about driving around Go-Karts. | [37] | ||||||||||||
Mario Party | Mario Party | Super Mario Party Jamboree | October 17, 2024 | Sub-series of the Mario franchise. | |||||||||||
Mario Strikers | Next Level Games | Super Mario Strikers | A sports video game sub-series of the Mario franchise about playing Soccer. | ||||||||||||
Mario Teaches Typing | Mario Teaches Typing | March 8, 1992 | Mario Teaches Typing 2 | October 31, 1996 | Sub-series of the Mario franchise. | ||||||||||
Mario Tennis | Mario's Tennis | Mario Tennis Aces | A sports video game sub-series of the Mario franchise about playing tennis. | ||||||||||||
Mario vs. Donkey Kong | Mario vs. Donkey Kong | Mario vs. Donkey Kong (remake) | Sub-series of the Mario and Donkey Kong franchises. | ||||||||||||
Mario & Luigi | AlphaDream (2003-2019) | Mario & Luigi: Brothership | November 7, 2024 | A role-playing video game sub-series of the Mario franchise where you play as both Mario and Luigi simultaneously. Often considered the counterpart to Paper Mario since it on appears on hand held consoles. | |||||||||||
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 | Sub-series of the Mario franchise and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, where characters from both series compete at Olympic Game events. Games in the series are officially licensed by the International Olympics Committee. | ||||||||||||
Marvelous | Nintendo R&D2 | Marvelous: Mōhitotsu no Takarajima | BS Māvuerasu Kyanpu Anorudo (Course 4) | ||||||||||||
Master of Illusion | Master of Illusion | Psychic Camera | |||||||||||||
Metroid | Metroid | Metroid Dread | |||||||||||||
Metroid Prime | Retro Studios | Metroid Prime | Sub-series of the Metroid franchise. | [38] | |||||||||||
Mii | Mii Channel | Miitopia | Miis are the customizable virtual avatars which debuted at launch on the Wii. Miis have been the subject of various Nintendo video games and applications and can be playable in other Nintendo games in different franchises. | ||||||||||||
NES Remix | Nintendo EAD Tokyo | NES Remix | Ultimate NES Remix | ||||||||||||
Nintendo Game Seminar | An official Nintendo Japan event where game design students create their own games. The event has run on 2003, 2005, 2010, 2013 and 2014. Some of these games have been released digitally on the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. | [39] [40] | |||||||||||||
Nintendo Labo | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04 VR Kit | |||||||||||||
Nintendo Pocket Football Club / Calciobit | ParityBit | Calciobit | Nintendo Pocket Football Club | ||||||||||||
Nintendo World Championship | Nintendo | Nintendo World Championships 1990 | Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition | Originating as an official Nintendo video game competition throughout America in 1990, with a unique game cartridge, the Nintendo World Championships series has had competitions held in 2015 and 2017 and released the video game, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, in the vein of this competition.The Nintendo Campus Challenge, held throughout America in 1991 and 1992, along with the Nintendo PowerFest '94 of 1994, are also in the vein of the Nintendo World Championship. | |||||||||||
Nintendogs | Nintendo EAD | A real-time pet simulator video game. | |||||||||||||
Paper Mario | Intelligent Systems | Paper Mario | Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (remake) | Sub-series of the Mario franchise where you play as a flat sheet of paper. | |||||||||||
Photos Together | Photos with Mario | April 23, 2013 | Photos with Pikmin | December 2, 2013 | A series of augmented-reality photography application on the Nintendo 3DS featuring characters from different Nintendo series. | [41] | |||||||||
Picross | Mario's Picross | PICROSS S NAMCO LEGENDARY edition | May 30, 2024 | Jupiter developed a variety of Picross games using Nintendo IP.Jupiter continues the series with Picross S, on Nintendo Switch. These games do not use the IP of Nintendo, however, Jupiter Picross is still a trademark of Nintendo. | [42] | ||||||||||
PictureBook Games | Grouding Inc. | ||||||||||||||
Pikachu | Ambrella | Hey, You Pikachu! | Pokémon Dash | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise centering on Pikachu. | [43] | ||||||||||
Pikmin | Pikmin | Pikmin 4 | |||||||||||||
Pilotwings | Pilotwings | Pilotwings Resort | |||||||||||||
Play Action Football | TOSE | NES Play Action Football | Super Play Action Football | ||||||||||||
Pokémon | Pokémon Red and Green | ||||||||||||||
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon | Spike Chunsoft | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team | Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise. | |||||||||||
Pokémon Pinball | Pokémon Pinball | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise. | |||||||||||||
Pokémon Puck | Pokémon Battrio | July 14, 2007 | Pokémon Mezastar | September 17, 2020 | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise consisting of arcade machines where players conduct Pokémon battles. | [44] | |||||||||
Pokémon Ranger | Pokémon Ranger | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise. | |||||||||||||
Pokémon Rumble | Ambrella | Pokémon Rumble | Pokémon Rumble Rush | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise. | |||||||||||
Pokémon Snap | Pokémon Snap | New Pokémon Snap | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise focusing on photographing Pokémon in their natural habitats. | ||||||||||||
Pokémon Stadium | Nintendo EAD | Pokémon Stadium | Pokémon Stadium 2 | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise. | |||||||||||
Pokémon TCG | Pokémon Trading Card Game | Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise adapting the real-life Pokémon Trading Card Game into video games. | [45] | |||||||||||
Pokémon Trozei! | Genius Sonority | Pokémon Trozei! | Pokémon Battle Trozei | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise. | |||||||||||
PokéPark | Creatures Inc | Sub-series of the Pokémon franchise. | |||||||||||||
Polarium | Mitchell Corporation | Polarium | Polarium Advance | ||||||||||||
Princess Peach | Super Princess Peach | October 20, 2005 | March 22, 2024 | Sub-series of the Mario franchise with Princess Peach, as the primary playable character. | |||||||||||
Punch-Out!! | Punch-Out!! | ||||||||||||||
Pushmo | Intelligent Systems | Pushmo | Stretchmo | ||||||||||||
Puzzle League | Intelligent Systems | Tetris Attack | Planet Puzzle League | Known in Japan as Panel de Pon. | |||||||||||
Rakubiki Jiten | Intelligent Systems | Rakubiki Jiten DS | Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten DS | A Kanji-English-Japanese dictionary software for the Nintendo DS. | |||||||||||
Rhythm Heaven | Nintendo SPD | Rhythm Tengoku | Rhythm Heaven Megamix | ||||||||||||
Robot / R.O.B | Nintendo R&D1 | Stack-Up | Gyromite | The R.O.B (Robotic Operating Buddy) toy was an accessory that worked with the two NES games in the series. | |||||||||||
Satella Walker | SatellaWalker: Satebō wo Sukui Dase! | SatellaWalker 2: Bottom de Battle | A series of video games broadcast on the Satellaview. | [46] | |||||||||||
Satella-Q | Waiwai de Q Dai-1-wa | Satella-Q Shin Q Omedetō Pikapika no Q Ninsei | A series of quiz games for the Satellaview. | [47] | |||||||||||
Shaberu! DS Oryōri Navi | A cooking simulator and digital cookbook series. | ||||||||||||||
Sin and Punishment | Treasure | Sin and Punishment | |||||||||||||
Snipperclips | SFB Games | Snipperclips: Cut it Out, Together! | Snipperclips Plus: Cut it Out, Together! | ||||||||||||
Sparkle Snapshots | Atlus | Sparkle Snapshots | Sparkle Snapshots 3D | ||||||||||||
Splatoon | Splatoon | A third-person shooter series where anthropomorphic squids and octopuses able to switch between their cephalopod and human forms at will, known as Inklings and Octolings, fight using ink-based weapons in a world where humans triggered a mass extinction, and sea creatures become the dominant species. The series features both online multiplayer (both cooperative and competitive) and single player campaigns, which star a team of cephalopods called the "New Squidbeak Splatoon" which aim to fight the Octarians, and save the Splatlands, the games' setting. | [48] [49] [50] [51] | ||||||||||||
Star Fox | Star Fox | Star Fox 2 | |||||||||||||
StarTropics | Nintendo R&D3 | StarTropics | |||||||||||||
Steel Diver | Nintendo EAD | Steel Diver | |||||||||||||
syn Sophia | Style Savvy | Style Savvy: Styling Star | A fashion video game where players manage their own clothing stores, dress up their avatars and compete in contests. syn Sophia has developed a spiritual successor, Fashion Dreamer (2023) which is not a Nintendo trademark. | ||||||||||||
Sujin Taisen | Mitchell Corporation | Sujin Taisen | June 5, 2007 | Sujin Taisen: Number Battles | January 28, 2009 | A puzzle/strategy video game similar to dominoes. | [52] | ||||||||
Super Mario | Super Mario Bros. | Super Mario Bros. Wonder | |||||||||||||
Super Mario Maker | Super Mario Maker | September 10, 2015 | Super Mario Maker 2 | June 28, 2019 | A 2D-platforming level creator sub-series of the Super Mario franchise.Users can create and share their own Super Mario levels using a variety of assets, obstacles, enemies and themes from the Super Mario series. | [53] | |||||||||
Super Smash Bros. | Super Smash Bros. | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | A fighting game series with crossover elements from many Nintendo franchises, as well as third-party franchises, in the form of playable characters, items, stages, and more. The series, created by Masahiro Sakurai, has been credited as the origination of the platform fighter genre due to its unique gameplay, which focuses on increasing an opponent's damage in order to launch them off-screen, rather than depleting their life bar. | [54] [55] | |||||||||||
Sutte Hakkun | indieszero Nintendo R&D2 | Sutte Hakkun Event Version | Sutte Hakkun | ||||||||||||
Swapnote | Swapnote | Swapdoodle | A messaging application for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. | ||||||||||||
Time Twist | Time Twist: Rekishi no Katasumi de...(Disk 1) | Time Twist: Rekishi no Katasumi de...(Disk 2) | |||||||||||||
Tingle | Vanpool | Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland | Dekisugi Tingle Pack | Sub-series of The Legend of Zelda franchise. | |||||||||||
Tomodachi | Nintendo SPD | Tomodachi Collection | Tomodachi Life | ||||||||||||
Wario | Wario Land: Shake It! | Sub-series of the Mario franchise. | |||||||||||||
WarioWare style="background:#FFFFBF;" | WarioWare | WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! | Sub-series of Wario franchise | ||||||||||||
Wars | Intelligent Systems | Famicom Wars | |||||||||||||
Wave Race | Wave Race | ||||||||||||||
Wii | Nintendo EAD | Wii Sports | Nintendo Switch Sports | ||||||||||||
Wii Chess / Tsuushin Taikyoku | Nintendo SPD | Wii Chess | Tsuushin Taikyoku: World Chess | Sub-series of the Wii series. | [56] | ||||||||||
Wii Fit | Wii Fit | Wii Fit U | Sub-series of the Wii series. A fitness game that uses the Wii Balance Board. | ||||||||||||
Wii Party | Wii Party | Wii Party U | Sub-series of the Wii series. | ||||||||||||
Wii Play | Vanpool | Wii Play | December 2, 2006 | June 13, 2011 | Sub-series of the Wii series. | ||||||||||
Wii Sports | Nintendo EAD | Wii Sports | November 19, 2006 | Nintendo Switch Sports | April 29, 2022 | Sub-series of the Wii series that has been on the Wii, Wii U and Nintendo Switch consoles. | |||||||||
Wrecking Crew | Vs. Wrecking Crew | ||||||||||||||
X | X | X-Scape | |||||||||||||
Xenoblade Chronicles | Monolith Soft | Xenoblade Chronicles | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 | ||||||||||||
Yakuman | Yakuman | ||||||||||||||
Yoshi | Yoshi | Yoshi's Crafted World | Sub-series of the Mario franchise with Yoshi as the primary playable character. | ||||||||||||
Zelda CD-i | October 10, 1993 | Zelda's Adventure | May 10, 1996 | Sub-series of The Legend of Zelda franchise, which was licensed by Nintendo to Philips to create games for the Compact Disk-Interactive. These entries are non-canon to The Legend of Zelda franchise. | [57] |