Nintendo
In 1975, Nintendo moved into the video arcade game industry with "EVR Race", designed by their first game designer, Genyo Takeda, and several more games followed. Nintendo had some small success with this venture, but the release of "Donkey Kong" in 1981, designed by Miyamoto, changed Nintendo's fortunes dramatically. The success of the game and many licensing opportunities (such as ports on the Atari 2600, Intellivision and ColecoVision) gave Nintendo a huge boost in profit and in addition, the game also introduced an early iteration of Mario, then known in Japan as Jumpman, the eventual company mascot.
List of best-selling Nintendo Entertainment System video games
The best-selling video game of all-time on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console, known as the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan, is "Super Mario Bros." First released in Japan on September 18, 1985, it went on to sell over 40 million units worldwide, making it the fifth best-selling video game of all-time. The game's two sequels on the NES are also featured in the top five best-selling games on the platform – "Super Mario Bros. 2" sold 7.46 million units to rank fourth, while "Super Mario Bros. 3" sold in excess of 17 million copies to rank third. "Duck Hunt" is the second best-selling game on the NES, selling over 28 million copies worldwide.