Nintendo was a Japanese video game company. (PROSE: Halflife) Nintendo was also a manufacturer of games consoles. (PROSE: Slow Decay)

One of its most notable games was Super Mario Bros which the Eighth Doctor once played in a pub in Bradford in the 1980s. (PROSE: Halflife)

In 2007, a cabbie commented to Melanie Bush that bedtime stories weren't read by as much people as they used to due to "Nintendos and Playstation" in the room. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

In his adventure with the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler onboard the SS Madame de Pompadour, Mickey Smith wore a T-shirt with a picture of the Nintendo Entertainment System controller over the caption, "Know Your Roots". (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)

After transferring to Park Vale Comprehensive School in the 2000s,^{[nb 1]} Lance Metcalf rarely spoke to other students, preferring to play Nintendo games during breaktime. (TV: Warriors of Kudlak)

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• Six Doctor Who games have been released on Nintendo consoles:
  • Top Trumps: Doctor Who (Nintendo DS/Wii)
  • Evacuation Earth (Nintendo DS)
  • Return to Earth (Wii)
  • LEGO Dimensions (Wii U)
  • The Edge of Time (Nintendo Switch)
  • The Lonely Assassins (Nintendo Switch)
• As mentioned, in The Girl in the Fireplace, Mickey wears a T-shirt which has a picture of the Nintendo Entertainment System controller over the caption, "Know Your Roots". This particular T-shirt, a limited edition, could be obtained either by subscribing to the British Nintendo Official Magazine, or by being purchased at selected GameStation outlets. In Doctor Who Magazine #367 Noel Clarke admitted to being a Nintendo fan and to being the owner of a Nintendo DS console. He also commented upon the T-shirt in the commentary which accompanied the episode on the BBC Website. Appropriately, Mickey is involved in a video game-related adventure in the spin-off novel Winner Takes All and is seen playing a video game with the Tenth Doctor in the comic story The Lodger.

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