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Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s , Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s , ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and ___MASK15___ ' s third most - valuable company with a market value of over $ 85 billion . From 1992 until 2016 , Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball ' s Seattle Mariners . A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " video " in " video game " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can produce two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . The Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( officially abbreviated the Super NES or SNES , and commonly shortened to Super Nintendo ) is a 16 - bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in ___MASK15___ and South Korea , 1991 in North America , 1992 in Europe and Australasia ( Oceania ), and 1993 in ___MASK4___ . In ___MASK15___ , the system is called the , or SFC for short . In South Korea , it is known as the Super Comboy (   " Syupeo Keomboi ") and was distributed by Hyundai Electronics . Although each version is essentially the same , several forms of regional lockout prevent the different versions from being compatible with one another . It was released in Brazil on September 2 , 1992 , by Playtronic . Mega Man , alternatively written as Megaman and MegaMan , known as in ___MASK15___ , is a video game franchise created by Capcom , starring the robot character Mega Man , or one of his many counterparts . " Mega Man ", released for the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES in 1987 , began a series of over 50 games on multiple systems . By March 2015 , the series had sold approximately thirty million copies worldwide , and is often cited as one of the most renowned video game franchises of all time . Mega Man X , known in ___MASK15___ as Rockman X ( X ) , is a video game developed by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( SNES ) . It is the first Mega Man game for the 16 - bit console and the first game in the Mega Man X series , a spin - off of the original Mega Man series that began on the SNES ' s predecessor , the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) . Mega Man X was first published in ___MASK15___ on December 17 , 1993 and was released in both North America and Europe the following year . Taking place a century after the original Mega Man series , Mega Man X is set in a futuristic world populated by both humans and `` Reploids '' , robots capable of thinking , feeling , and growing like their human creators . Because of these complex attributes , many Reploids are prone to destructive , criminal activity and are thereafter referred to as `` Mavericks '' . The plot of the game follows the protagonist Mega Man X , an android member of a military task force called the `` Maverick Hunters '' . With the help of his partner Zero , X must thwart the plans of Sigma , a powerful Maverick leader wishing to bring about human extinction . With the transition to more advanced gaming hardware , series artist Keiji Inafune explained that the development of Mega Man X involved reinventing Mega Man through gameplay expansion and a more mature storyline while still maintaining the basic concepts on which the franchise was built . Much like the NES Mega Man games that came before it , Mega Man X is a standard action - platform game where the player takes control of the eponymous character and must complete a set of eight , initial stages in any order desired . Defeating the boss character at the end of each stage grants the player one new weapon that can then be toggled and used at will for the remainder of the game . However , Mega Man X adds a number of new features and makes radical changes to the original gameplay mechanics of previous releases in the series . These include allowing the player to dash along the ground , scale walls , and obtain armor attachments which grant special abilities . Mega Man X has met with positive reviews for its gameplay , sound , and graphics , as well as its attempt to augment the aging Mega Man franchise . A longterm commercial success on the SNES , Mega Man X has since been ported to personal computers ( PCs ) and mobile devices , included in the North American Mega Man X Collection for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 ( PS2 ) , and released on the Virtual Console download service for the Wii and the Wii U . The game also received an enhanced remake on the PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) titled Mega Man Maverick Hunter X , or Irregular Hunter X ( X ) in ___MASK15___ . IMAGE ( from Imager for Magnetopause - to - ___MASK25___ Global Exploration ), or Explorer 78 , was a NASA MIDEX mission that studied the global response of the ___MASK27___ ' s magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind . It was launched March 25 , 2000 by a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg AFB and ceased operations in December 2005 . The Nintendo Entertainment System ( commonly abbreviated as NES ) is an 8 - bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo . The best - selling gaming console of its time , the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983 . With the NES , Nintendo introduced a now - standard business model of licensing third - party developers , authorizing them to produce and distribute titles for Nintendo ' s platform . ___MASK15___ (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of ___MASK15___ ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of China , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest . , or Capcom , is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games , known for creating multi - million - selling franchises such as " Mega Man ", " Street Fighter ", " Resident Evil ", " Devil May Cry ", " Ace Attorney ", and " Monster Hunter ," as well as games based on the Disney animated properties . Originally established in 1979 , it has since become an international enterprise with subsidiaries in North America , ___MASK98___ , and East Asia . Mega Man X ( after " X4 " stylized as Megaman X ), known in ___MASK15___ as , is a " Mega Man " series of action platform games released by Capcom . It was initially released on December 17 , 1993 in ___MASK15___ ( January 1994 in North America ) on the Super NES / Super Famicom and spawned sequels on several systems , most of which were later ported to the PC platform . The plot is a continuation of the preceding series , " Mega Man ". The game play introduced new elements to the " Mega Man " franchise including the ability to dash and climb walls . The first six games in the series were compiled in the anthology " Mega Man X Collection ". Australasia , a region of ___MASK30___ , comprises ___MASK83___ , New Zealand , the island of New Guinea , and neighbouring islands in the ___MASK66___ . Charles de Brosses coined the term ( as French " Australasie ") in " Histoire des navigations aux terres australes " ( 1756 ). He derived it from the Latin for " south of Asia " and differentiated the area from Polynesia ( to the east ) and the southeast Pacific ( Magellanica ). The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo - Australian Plate , together with India . The franchise is a series of fantasy - themed action role - playing video games that started with the game " Monster Hunter " for PlayStation 2 . The series is developed and published by Capcom . As the title suggests , the player takes the role of a hunter in a fantasy environment and completes quests by hunting out specific kinds of monsters to kill or capture . The series has branched out into PlayStation Portable games and a massively multiplayer online game . In ___MASK15___ , the " Monster Hunter " series is immensely popular , and it has gained a cult following in the west , with the port " Monster Hunter Freedom " ( known in ___MASK15___ as " Monster Hunter Portable ") and its sequels , " Monster Hunter Freedom 2 " / " Monster Hunter Portable 2nd ", " Monster Hunter Freedom Unite " / " Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G ", " Monster Hunter Portable 3rd " and an online game called " Monster Hunter Frontier Online " selling millions of copies , and " Monster Hunter Tri " becoming the highest - selling third - party Wii game in ___MASK15___ . As of February 2015 , the series has sold over 38 million units across all games . There is also an anime based on the spin - off game "" and a book called " Monster Hunter EPISODE " (  EPISODE ~). " Monster Hunter 4 " and " Monster Hunter Generations " launched on the Nintendo 3DS handheld console . Resident Evil , known as in ___MASK15___ , is a survival horror video game - based media franchise created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara and owned by the video game company Capcom . The franchise focuses around a series of survival horror video games , but has since branched out into comic books , novels , novelizations , sound dramas , live - action films , animated sequels to the games , and a variety of associated merchandise , such as action figures . The series ' overarching plot focuses on multiple characters , and their roles in recurring outbreaks of zombies and other monsters , initially due to the release of the T - virus , but still more biological weapons over time , created mainly by the fictional Umbrella Corporation and various other organizations in later games . Ace Attorney , known in ___MASK15___ as , is a series of visual novel adventure video games developed by Capcom . The first entry in the series , "", was released in 2001 ; since then , nine further games have been released . Additionally , the series has seen adaptations in the form of a live action film and an anime , and has been the base for manga series , drama CDs , musicals and stage plays .