A look at Nintendo’s changing fortunes over the last few years.
T'was Monday 23rd September in the year 1889 - a fateful day in Kyoto, Japan - when Ian Nintendo woke up and decided to form a video game company...
Okay, there may be a couple of minor discrepancies in that opening statement, although the date and the founding of the company we now know as Nintendo are accurate. Started by Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally named Nintendo Koppai, it famously started off manufacturing Hanafuda playing cards before the founder’s great-grandson Hiroshi Yamauchi diversified the company’s output through the middle years of the last century. Following forays into ‘love hotels’, taxis and a variety of other business pursuits, the electronic toy market beckoned and Nintendo was gradually transformed into the company that we know and love today.
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T'was Monday 23rd September in the year 1889 - a fateful day in Kyoto, Japan - when Ian Nintendo woke up and decided to form a video game company...
Okay, there may be a couple of minor discrepancies in that opening statement, although the date and the founding of the company we now know as Nintendo are accurate. Started by Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally named Nintendo Koppai, it famously started off manufacturing Hanafuda playing cards before the founder’s great-grandson Hiroshi Yamauchi diversified the company’s output through the middle years of the last century. Following forays into ‘love hotels’, taxis and a variety of other business pursuits, the electronic toy market beckoned and Nintendo was gradually transformed into the company that we know and love today.
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