Nintendo family tree by Vin Lauria

Vin Lauria is a freelance graphic designer that mostly does work involving video games. Most of what I’ve seen involves logos, UI diagrams some sketches and some SSB4 fanart, but what really caught my attention was what I would consider his magnum opus – the incredibly detailed Nintendo Family Tree.

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A look at the Nintendo family tree infographic

As you can tell, it doesn’t go into so much detail, but the sheer scope of all these franchises makes up for it. It of course includes the classic series such as Mario, Zelda and Metroid, but then it goes into all the lesser known franchises like Golden Sun, 1080 Snowboarding. It even goes on to show Japan-only games like The Legendary Starfy series or (most of) Custom Robo. It basically covers every game that Nintendo has published or developed. If there’s something that it doesn’t cover, I’d love to know. (And no, the CDI games do not count.)

An interesting couple of tidbits would be that it clearly shows the franchises that have the most games in them (Mario & Pokemon) as well as the generation in which Nintendo published the majority of its franchises (so far, gen 7).

The Nintendo family tree inforgraphic focuses on the different Nintendo franchises and joining them with split timelines based on gameplay style rather than just a simple chronological order. This is pretty cool since it lets you see the ways different game styles interact with each other and split off from a core game.

The only problem that I found is that it (understandably) uses a lot of acronyms so it can be a bit confusing at times. For example, when I saw “PS” and “PS2” in one of the boxes, the first thing that came to my mind was ‘Playstation’, whereas the infographic was referring to Pokemon Stadium.

I highly recommend that you have a look at the Nintendo family tree and spend a few minutes looking at it in depth. When I first saw it, I just took a quick glance; but when I took the time to gaze at it, it really had a profound effect.

On a side note, I tried to credit Vin Lauria as much as possible and I couldn’t find any web page, Facebook profile or anything so the best I can do for referring the original source is linking to his imgur page.

 

 

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