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.
Nintendo arcade machines
Computer Othello (June 1978) is a clone of the board game "Reversi". It was the first game produced by Nintendo R&D1, the team that later produced the first "Mario", "Donkey Kong", "Duck Hunt", and "Kid Icarus" games. R&D1 was led by Gunpei Yokoi, who later created the Game Boy, and included "Mario" and "Legend of Zelda" creator Shigeru Miyamoto.