What is NinDB?
At the tender age of 7 I played my first Nintendo Entertainment System. My entire family became Nintendo fans, and we bought each Nintendo system as they came out. I thought I knew everything about Nintendo. I helped out at various Mario fansites, and even set up my own Pokémon fansite called Pocket Monster Island (now defunct). At E3 2001, Nintendo showed a video of Super Smash Bros. Melee’s trophy mode. At that moment, I realised I had only just scratched the surface of Nintendo’s back catalogue, and I set out to find out who all the characters were. It started with a long post on Pocket Monster Island, before spinning off into its own site called Nintendo Database, starting out as a list of Nintendo games for each system hosted on Tripod. The site was launched between the release of the Game Boy Advance and the GameCube, and Melee had brought in an era of gaming nostalgia. As the site expanded to include more detailed information, and as it became more popular, the site was moved to
