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Nintendo Co., Ltd.  is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in  Kyoto ,  Japan . Nintendo is one of the world's largest  video game companies  by market capitalization. Founded on 23 September 1889 by  Fusajiro Yamauchi , it originally produced handmade  hanafuda   playing cards . By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and  love hotels . The word Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo ------------------------------ A  gamer  is someone who  plays interactive games , usually  video games , although games can also come in other forms, such as  tabletop  and plays for long periods of time. Or physical games (in some countries, such as the United Kingdom, the term "gaming" can also refer to legalized  gambling , which can ...

In video gaming , a life is a play-turn that a player-character has, defined as the period between start and end of play. It is sometimes called a chance or a try, particularly in all-ages games, to avoid the morbid insinuation of losing "lives". Generally, if the player loses all their health points , they lose a life. Losing all lives usually grants the player-character " game over ", forcing them to either restart or stop playing. The number of lives a player is granted varies per game type. A finite number of lives became a common feature in arcade games during the 1980s and mechanics such as checkpoints and power-ups made the managing of lives a more strategic experience for players over time. Lives give novice players more chances to learn the mechanics of a video game, while allowing more advanced players to take more risks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(gaming) ------------------------------ A  gamer  is someone who  plays intera...

Dice  ( singular  die or dice; from  Old French  dé; from  Latin  datum "something which is given or played") are small throwable objects with multiple resting positions, used for generating  random numbers . Dice are suitable as  gambling  devices for games like  craps  and are also used in non-gambling  tabletop games . Dice are often sold in sets, matching in color, of six different shapes. These are the five  Platonic solids , whose faces are  regular polygons ; the other four Platonic solids have 4, 8, 12, and 20 faces, allowing for those number ranges to be generated. The only other common non-cubical die is the 10-sided die, a pentagonal  trapezohedron  die, whose faces are ten  kites , each with two different edge lengths, three different angles, and two different kinds of vertices. These are also sold frequently with a second 10-sided die either of contrasting color or numbered by tens, al...

Street Fighter , commonly abbreviated as SF, is a  fighting video game franchise by  Capcom . The second game in the series is credited with establishing many of the conventions of the one-on-one fighting genre. The game's playable characters originate from different  countries  around the world, each with a unique fighting style. It is Capcom's second  best-selling  franchise, having had significant success worldwide. The first game in the series was released in 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter ------------------------------ In 1989, Dempa released an analog thumbstick controller for Japanese computers and consoles called the XE-1 AP. This new controller included a thumb-operated control stick which allowed for varying levels of movement and near-360-degree control, translating into far more precise movements than were possible with a D-pad. It also distinguished itself by having the player control it with the thumb, si...

A  gamer  is someone who  plays interactive games , usually  video games , although games can also come in other forms, such as  tabletop  and plays for long periods of time. Or physical games (in some countries, such as the United Kingdom, the term "gaming" can also refer to legalized  gambling , which can take both traditional—i.e. tabletop—and digital forms—akin to video games). There are many gamer communities around the world. Many of these take the form of  Internet forums  and other  virtual communities , as well as in-person  social clubs . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer -------------------------------- Dice  ( singular  die or dice; from  Old French  dé; from  Latin  datum "something which is given or played") are small throwable objects with multiple resting positions, used for generating  random numbers . Dice are suitable as  gambling  devices for games like...

A  gamer  is someone who  plays interactive games , usually  video games , although games can also come in other forms, such as  tabletop  and plays for long periods of time. Or physical games (in some countries, such as the United Kingdom, the term "gaming" can also refer to legalized  gambling , which can take both traditional—i.e. tabletop—and digital forms—akin to video games). There are many gamer communities around the world. Many of these take the form of  Internet forums  and other  virtual communities , as well as in-person  social clubs . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer -------------------------------- A  T-shirt  (or tee shirt, or tee) is a style of  unisex  fabric  shirt , named after the T shape of the body and sleeves. It is normally associated with short sleeves, a round neckline, known as a  crew neck , with no collar. T-shirts are generally made of a light, inexpensive fa...

A gamer is someone who plays interactive games , usually video games , although games can also come in other forms, such as tabletop and plays for long periods of time. Or physical games (in some countries, such as the United Kingdom, the term "gaming" can also refer to legalized gambling , which can take both traditional—i.e. tabletop—and digital forms—akin to video games). There are many gamer communities around the world. Many of these take the form of Internet forums and other virtual communities , as well as in-person social clubs . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer -------------------------------- A T-shirt (or tee shirt, or tee) is a style of unisex fabric shirt , named after the T shape of the body and sleeves. It is normally associated with short sleeves, a round neckline, known as a crew neck , with no collar. T-shirts are generally made of a light, inexpensive fabric, and are easy to clean. htt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shirt