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Background

Nintendo is a consumer electronics company centered around the development of video games, and hardware to run them. The company was founded in 1889 by entrepreneur Fusajiro Yamauchi, originally as a seller of card games, at the time banned by the Japanese government due to its ties to gambling; Yamauchi's playing cards were one of few that were permitted for sale to the Japanese public. Around the 1960s, Nintendo started to experiment with numerous ventures, including a taxi service (their most successful venture at the time), love hotels, a TV network, and the sale of instant rice. After securing the rights to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey game console in Japan in 1974, Nintendo started to solely focus on the development of video games and gaming hardware for both arcades and home use. Today, Nintendo is best known for its participation in the video game console market, with consoles such as the DS, Game Boy, Wii, NES, and most recently, Switch. They are also the owners of numerous iconic gaming franchises, including Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda.

Nintendo started using stylized logos in their games in 1990.

1st Logo (November 21, 1990-October 21, 2003)

Nickname: "Nintendo Presents...."

Logo: On a black background, we see "- Nintendo -" in its corporate font without the oblong shape. Below it is "Presents".

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: A random sound effect from the game.

On Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island for SNES, a coin sound effect is heard.
On Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, Yoshi says the word "Nintendo".
On Yoshi's Story, a chorus of Yoshis say "Nintendo".
On The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, a rupee sound is heard.
There is no sound on Super Scope 6.

Availability: Uncommon. Seen on Super Mario World, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Story, The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, Super Scope 6, and the Super Mario Advance games except for the first one.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (1990)

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Logo: Same as the Nexoft logo used in Penguin Wars, but with the corporate Nintendo logo, sans the oblong shape.

FX/SFX: See Nexoft.

Music/Sounds: See Nexoft.

Availability: Ultra rare. Seen only on King of the Zoo and a European localization of Penguin Wars for the Game Boy.

Editor's Note: See Nexoft.

3rd Logo (September 1, 1992-December 1994, December 12, 2010) (USA)

Nicknames: "The Gold Mario Coin", "Nintendo Coin"

Logo: On a black background, we see the normal Nintendo logo, but the oblong shape is stretched out a bit. On top of the text is a gold Mario coin that shines once.

Variant: On Super Mario Kart, Yoshi's Safari, Super Punch-Out!! (this game has the logo in silver), and Stunt Race FX (this game has the logo in pink), there is no gold Mario coin.

FX/SFX: The coin shining.

Music/Sounds: The coin sound effect from the 1st logo.

On Stunt Race FX, a honking sound effect is heard.
On Super Punch-Out!!, TBA.

Availability: Uncommon. Seen on Super Mario Kart, Super Mario All-Stars (+ Super Mario World), Stunt Race FX, Super Punch-Out!!, Yoshi's Safari, and Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition.

Editor's Note: None.

4th Logo (1993-)

Nickname: "The Nintendo Logo"

Logo: We see the Nintendo logo on either a black or white background.

Variant:

On PAL releases of some Nintendo games, the logo is colored in blue instead of red.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None or the opening theme of the game.

Availability: Very common. Can be seen on most Nintendo games such as Mario Kart 64. It hasn't appeared as often in-game since around the Wii U era, but it still shows up occasionally.

Editor's Note: None.

5th Logo (Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem custom variant) (June 24, 2002)

Nicknames: "Eternal Darkness", "Nintendo's Dark Side", "Creepy Nintendo", "Sintendo"

Logo: On a black background, we see some reddish-gray smoke rising, forming a red skeleton with its eyes lit green, which then looks to the camera with its mouth opening. Its eyes brighten up before a cyan flash of light appears, causing the skeleton to melt to the right, off the screen. The flash becomes a beam of light, circling around before it reaches the bottom-center of an outline of the Nintendo logo. It flashes even brighter and the full Nintendo logo appears in light blue. Throughout its screen time, the color of the Nintendo logo changes to red.

Variant: On the PAL/European versions of the game, the Nintendo logo would turn blue instead of red.

FX/SFX: All CGI.

Music/Sounds: Ominous orchestral music, accompanied by the skeleton growling. After a phasing sound when the Nintendo logo gets formed, a deep "thud" is heard and a deep male announcer says the company name.

Availability: Only appeared on Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem for the Nintendo GameCube.

Editor's Note: None.

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 ===Background===
-'''Nintendo''' is a consumer electronics company centered around the development of video games, and hardware to run them. The company was founded in 1889 by entrepreneur Fusajiro Yamauchi, originally as a seller of card games, at the time banned by the Japanese government due to its ties to gambling; Yamauchi's playing cards were one of few that were permitted for sale to the Japanese public. Around the 1960s, Nintendo started to experiment with numerous ventures, including a taxi service (their most successful venture at the time), love hotels, a TV network, and the sale of instant rice. After securing the rights to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey game console in Japan in 1974, Nintendo started to solely focus on the development of video games and gaming hardware for both arcades and home use. Today, Nintendo is best known for its participation in the video game console market, with consoles such as the DS, Game Boy, Wii, NES, and, most recently, Switch. They are also the owners of numerous iconic gaming franchises, including ''Super Mario'', ''Donkey Kong'', ''Pokemon'', ''Metroid'', and ''The Legend of Zelda''.
+'''Nintendo''' is a consumer electronics company centered around the development of video games, and hardware to run them. The company was founded in 1889 by entrepreneur Fusajiro Yamauchi, originally as a seller of card games, at the time banned by the Japanese government due to its ties to gambling; Yamauchi's playing cards were one of few that were permitted for sale to the Japanese public. Around the 1960s, Nintendo started to experiment with numerous ventures, including a taxi service (their most successful venture at the time), love hotels, a TV network, and the sale of instant rice. After securing the rights to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey game console in Japan in 1974, Nintendo started to solely focus on the development of video games and gaming hardware for both arcades and home use. Today, Nintendo is best known for its participation in the video game console market, with consoles such as the DS, Game Boy, Wii, NES, and most recently, Switch. They are also the owners of numerous iconic gaming franchises, including ''Super Mario'', ''Donkey Kong'', ''Pokemon'', ''Metroid'', and ''The Legend of Zelda''.
 Nintendo started using stylized logos in their games in 1990.
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 ===1st Logo (November 21, 1990-October 21, 2003)===
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 '''Nickname:''' "Nintendo Presents...."
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 '''FX/SFX:''' None.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' A random sound effect from a game.
+'''Music/Sounds:''' A random sound effect from the game.
 *On ''Super Mario World'' and ''Yoshi's Island'' for SNES, a coin sound effect is heard.
 *On ''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3'', Yoshi says the word "Nintendo".
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 ===2nd Logo (1990)===
 [[File:Nintendo (1990, Nexoft plaster).png|center|300px]]
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 {{Seizure Warning}}{{Noise Warning}}
 '''Logo:''' Same as the [[Nexoft]] logo used in ''Penguin Wars'', but with the corporate Nintendo logo, sans the oblong shape.
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 '''Music/Sounds:''' See [[Nexoft]].
-'''Availability:''' Ultra rare. Seen only on ''King of the Zoo'', a European localization of ''Penguin Wars'', for the Game Boy.
+'''Availability:''' Ultra rare. Seen only on ''King of the Zoo'' and a European localization of ''Penguin Wars'' for the Game Boy.
 '''Editor's Note:''' See [[Nexoft]].
 ===3rd Logo (September 1, 1992-December 1994, December 12, 2010) (USA)===
-[[File:Nintendo (1992).png|center]]
+[[File:Nintendo (1992).png|center|300px]]
 '''Nicknames:''' "The Gold Mario Coin", "Nintendo Coin"
-'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see the normal Nintendo logo but the oblong shape is stretched out a bit. On top of the text is a gold Mario coin, that shines once.
+'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see the normal Nintendo logo, but the oblong shape is stretched out a bit. On top of the text is a {{color|gold}} Mario coin that shines once.
-'''Variant:''' On ''Super Mario Kart'', ''Yoshi's Safari'', ''Super Punch-Out!!'' (this game has the logo in silver), and ''Stunt Race FX'' (this game has the logo in pink), there's no gold Mario coin.
+'''Variant:''' On ''Super Mario Kart'', ''Yoshi's Safari'', ''Super Punch-Out!!'' (this game has the logo in {{color|silver}}), and ''Stunt Race FX'' (this game has the logo in {{color|pink}}), there is no gold Mario coin.
 '''FX/SFX:''' The coin shining.
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 '''Editor's Note:''' None.
 ===4th Logo (1993-)===
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 '''Nickname:''' "The Nintendo Logo"
-'''Logo:''' We see the Nintendo logo in either a black or white background.
+'''Logo:''' We see the Nintendo logo on either a black or white background.
-'''Variants:'''
+'''Variant:'''
+*On PAL releases of some Nintendo games, the logo is colored in {{color|blue}} instead of {{color|red}}.
-*On PAL releases of some Nintendo games, the logo is colored in blue.
 '''FX/SFX:''' None.
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 ===5th Logo (''Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem'' custom variant) (June 24, 2002)===
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+<gallery mode=packed heights=200>
-File:Nintendo (2002, America).png
+Nintendo (2002, America).png
-File:Nintendo (2002, PAL).png
+Nintendo (2002, PAL).png
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+</gallery>
+{{YouTube|id=w-JVs7G8ttw}}
 '''Nicknames:''' "Eternal Darkness", "Nintendo's Dark Side", "Creepy Nintendo", "Sintendo"
-'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see some reddish-grey smoke rising, forming a red skeleton with its eyes lit green which then looks to the camera with its mouth opening. Its eyes brighten up before a cyan flash of light appears, causing the skeleton to move to the right, off the screen. The flash becomes a beam of light, circling around before it reaches the bottom-center of an outline of the Nintendo logo. It flashes even brighter and the full Nintendo logo appears in light blue. Throughout its screen time, the color of the Nintendo logo changes to red.
+'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see some {{color|red|reddish}}-{{color|gray}} smoke rising, forming a {{color|red}} skeleton with its eyes lit {{color|green}}, which then looks to the camera with its mouth opening. Its eyes brighten up before a {{color|cyan}} flash of light appears, causing the skeleton to melt to the right, off the screen. The flash becomes a beam of light, circling around before it reaches the bottom-center of an outline of the Nintendo logo. It flashes even brighter and the full Nintendo logo appears in {{color|lightblue|light blue}}. Throughout its screen time, the color of the Nintendo logo changes to {{color|red}}.
+'''Variant:''' On the PAL/European versions of the game, the Nintendo logo would turn {{color|blue}} instead of {{color|red}}.
-'''FX/SFX:''' All CGI.
+'''FX/SFX:''' All CGI.
-'''Variant:''' On the PAL/European versions of the game, the Nintendo logo would turn blue instead of red.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' Ominous orchestral music, accompanied by the skeleton growling. After the Nintendo logo gets formed, a creepy male announcer says the company name.
+'''Music/Sounds:''' Ominous orchestral music, accompanied by the skeleton growling. After a phasing sound when the Nintendo logo gets formed, a deep "thud" is heard and a deep male announcer says the company name.
 '''Availability:''' Only appeared on ''Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem'' for the Nintendo GameCube.