Nintendo

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Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies today, known for its impact on the video game industry and influential games. The Brothers Chaps have praised Nintendo in many interviews, and have made many Nintendo references on the Homestar Runner site.

References

• Pumpkin Carve-nival — The King of Town dresses as Mario, and says "Sorry, King, but our princess is in another castle..." At the end there is an Easter egg that features the beginning of Stage 1.1 of Super Mario Bros., complete with a Goomba.
• Email 2 emails — Homestar claims to have built a time machine out of Strong Bad's blender and Game Boy.
• Email Videro Games — The controller Strong Sad is holding in the instruction manual is very similar to the original NES controller.
• Bug In Mouth Disease — When Strong Bad removes his head from the TV, a room with a Super Nintendo, a black GameCube, and some Nintendo 64 game cartridges is visible.
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 10 — Tompkins plays the original 1989 Game Boy, and claims to have Bowser "on the ropes". Shortly afterwards The Ugly One mentions Diddy Kong.
• Email bedtime story — The Cheat and Moses Malone play the NES games The Adventures of Lolo and The Adventures of Bayou Billy in "The Ch8t's Cheatventures in Moses MaloneLand".
• Email alternate universe — The alternate universe portal is a Game Boy in a Blender.