Talk:Mr. Game & Watch/@comment-86.174.161.210-20141218070128/@comment-5037299-20141220194219

Sheriff was created by Nintendo in 1979.

The oldest entity in Smash Bros. is Color TV-Game 15, from 1977.

So assuming the Color TV-Games are characters, Nintendo's first game character was Color TV-Game 6. Otherwise, it was Sheriff.