User:DandelionSprout/Microsoft page testing

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(As the creation of this page would be practically impossible to write in one go, I'm building it up gradually in userspace first.)

Microsoft page testing
Founded April 4, 1975
Current president Satya Nadella

Microsoft is an American software and hardware company based in the United States, whose software products have a long history between them and Nintendo's Super Mario franchise, in regards to Mario games released on MS-DOS and Windows 95, the long-lasting effects of when Microsoft bought Rare Ltd. from Nintendo as part of entering the home console market with the Xbox, and the two companies competing in the home console market since 2001.

MS-DOS

  • (Supposedly mostly known as IBM-PC due to its hardware, instead of MS-DOS due to its OS, at the time of Donkey Kong 1 and for almost a decade afterwards?)

Donkey Kong (game)

25m in the DOS/PC Booter/IBM/IBM compatible version of Donkey Kong.

1990's

Bill Gates

Screenshot from an obscure virtual magazine produced for the Satellaview peripheral of the Super Famicom (Japanese SNES). A crudely made doll of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates explains to plushes of Mario and Toad the true purpose of the Windows 95 operating system.

Rare Ltd.

RareMicrosoft.jpg

(Also: what happened to Donkey Kong 64 and/or DK Rap)

Diddy Kong Racing DS

The North American front box art for Diddy Kong Racing DS
  • (See if there's any other cases where Microsoft allowed Rare free choice in portable consoles; I could've sworn there were one or two on GBA.)

Banjo & Kazooie

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Main article: Banjo § Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Banjo and Kazooie's standard special in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.