Nintendo

Mickey Smith's "Know Your Roots" shirt. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)

Nintendo was a Japanese video game company. (PROSE: Halflife) Nintendo was also a manufacturer of games consoles. (PROSE: Slow Decay)

One of its most notable games was Super Mario Bros which the Eighth Doctor once played in a pub in Bradford in the 1980s. (PROSE: Halflife)

In 2007, a cabbie commented to Melanie Bush that bedtime stories weren't read by as much people as they used to due to "Nintendos and Playstation" in the room. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

After transferring to Park Vale Comprehensive School in the 2000s,^{[nb 1]} Lance Metcalf rarely spoke to other students, preferring to play Nintendo games during breaktime. (TV: Warriors of Kudlak)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Six Doctor Who games have been released on Nintendo consoles:
- Top Trumps: Doctor Who (Nintendo DS/Wii)
- Evacuation Earth (Nintendo DS)
- Return to Earth (Wii)
- LEGO Dimensions (Wii U)
- The Edge of Time (Nintendo Switch)
- The Lonely Assassins (Nintendo Switch)
As mentioned, in The Girl in the Fireplace, Mickey wears a T-shirt which has a picture of the Nintendo Entertainment System controller over the caption, "Know Your Roots". This particular T-shirt, a limited edition, could be obtained either by subscribing to the British Nintendo Official Magazine, or by being purchased at selected GameStation outlets. In Doctor Who Magazine #367 Noel Clarke admitted to being a Nintendo fan and to being the owner of a Nintendo DS console. He also commented upon the T-shirt in the commentary which accompanied the episode on the BBC Website. Appropriately, Mickey is involved in a video game-related adventure in the spin-off novel Winner Takes All and is seen playing a video game with the Tenth Doctor in the comic story The Lodger.

↑ No on screen date is given for the first two series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, outside of The Day of the Clown from the second series being set shortly after 9 October in an undisclosed year. While Donna Noble's present from the fourth series of Doctor Who is set around the same time as the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith from the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is explicitly described as being set a year after Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? from the first series, Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008 (heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast and TV: The Giggle as well), and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.