Nintendo Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries develop interactive entertainment products worldwide. It manufactures and markets hardware and software for its home video game systems, including Nintendo GameCube and the Game Boy series. The company’s entertainment products include ‘Nintendo DS’, a handheld gaming device with a touch screen and microphone port that enables intuitive game play; ‘Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection’, a wireless Internet service for the ‘Nintendo DS’; ‘Nintendo DS Lite’; ‘Touch! Generations’; ‘Nintendogs’, which allows the player to interact with virtual puppies on the screen; ‘Mario Kart DS’; ‘Animal Crossing: Wild World’; and ‘Nintendo GameCube’, such as ‘Mario Party 7’ and ‘Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness’. Nintendo was founded in 1889. It was formerly known as Marufuku Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Nintendo Playing Card Co., Ltd. in 1951; and to Nintendo Co., Ltd. in 1963. The company is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.