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Nintendo Timeline Games

Order Nintendo: the Mario and Zelda games, Pokémon from the Pokédex to the cards, Kirby, Metroid, Fire Emblem, Smash and Animal Crossing.

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20 decks · 584 cards
Animal Crossing games
Order these Animal Crossing games, apps and the film by the year each was first released anywhere.
17 cards Your best 0
Fire Emblem games
Order the Fire Emblem games by the year each first released.
15 cards Your best 0
Kirby games
Order these Kirby games by release year.
27 cards Your best 0
Kirby games
Order the main Kirby games by the year each first released.
14 cards Your best 0
Mario games
Order by the year each game first released.
44 cards Your best 0
Mario Kart games
Order the Mario Kart games by the year each first released.
11 cards Your best 0
Metroid games
Order these Metroid games by release year.
17 cards Your best 0
Metroid games
Order the Metroid games by the year each first released.
12 cards Your best 0
Metroid timeline
Order the Metroid games by Samus’s own chronology — the canonical story order, not the order they were released.
10 cards Your best 0
Pokédex numbers
Order by National Pokédex number, lowest first.
159 cards Your best 0
Pokemon anime characters by debut
Order by the year each character first appeared in the Pokemon anime, by Japanese air date.
30 cards Your best 0
Pokémon box legendaries by generation
Order the box-art legendary Pokémon by the generation each debuted in.
22 cards Your best 0
Pokémon games
Order by the year each game first released.
35 cards Your best 0
Pokémon regions by debut
Order the main Pokémon regions by the year the games that introduced them released.
10 cards Your best 0
Pokémon starters by generation
Order the Pokémon starters by the generation each debuted in — from Kanto’s trio onward.
27 cards Your best 0
Pokémon TCG sets
Order these Pokémon Trading Card Game sets by their release date.
34 cards Your best 0
Super Mario 64 courses
Order the 15 main courses of Super Mario 64 the way the paintings unlock, from the very first to the last.
15 cards Your best 0
Super Mario Odyssey kingdoms
Order the kingdoms of Super Mario Odyssey the way you visit them, from the Cap Kingdom to the finale.
15 cards Your best 0
Super Smash Bros. fighters
Order these Smash fighters by the year each character first appeared in a game.
40 cards Your best 0
Zelda games
Order by the year each game first released.
30 cards Your best 0

How the Nintendo timeline decks play

This page gathers every Nintendo deck in one place. Release-year decks cover Mario games, Zelda games, Pokémon games, Mario Kart, Kirby, Metroid, Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing, with Kirby and Metroid appearing twice in long and short versions. Others ask for a different order: Metroid timeline by Samus's own story, Super Mario 64 courses and Super Mario Odyssey kingdoms in the order you reach them, Pokédex numbers across 159 cards, and Pokémon starters and box legendaries by generation. Pokémon TCG sets, Super Smash Bros. fighters and Pokemon anime characters fill out the list. Slot cards in one by one; a miss costs a life.

If you have played through Super Mario 64 or Odyssey, those 15-card decks are a gentle start. The release decks get harder with handhelds, since portable and console entries often landed close together, and remakes can muddle memory. Super Smash Bros. fighters is a sneaky one, because it dates each character's first game, not their Smash debut. Pokédex numbers is the marathon: knowing the regions helps, but the order within a generation takes real recall.

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