Nintendo Research & Development No. 1 Department was a division of Nintendo, and is its oldest development team. Its creation coincided with Nintendo's entry into the video game industry, and the orig
Exterior of the former Nintendo headquarters in Kyoto, Japan, which housed the department
Game Boy, the highly-successful handheld video game console
The Virtual Boy, developed by R&D1, emulates 3-D visuals by use of individual red monochrome displays for each eye. It was considered a commercial failure.
Nintendo Software Planning & Development Division, commonly abbreviated as Nintendo SPD, was a Japanese research, planning and development division owned by Nintendo and housed inside the Nintendo Dev
Nintendo Research & Development 1
…group was led by Takehiro Izushi. In 2004, Satoru Iwata restructured the Nintendo R&D1 team. Many of the staff members were later reassigned to the Nintendo SPD team, which in turn merged with Nintendo EAD in 2015 to form Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development. In 1965, Nintendo, still primarily a hanafuda…
Exterior of the Nintendo headquarters in Kyoto, Japan, which housed the division until 2014