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Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内溥, Yamauchi Hiroshi, 7 November 1927 – 19 September 2013) was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company on 25 April 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being succeeded by Satoru Iwata.
Age Net Worth Source of Wealth Notes 1: Tadashi Yanai: 66: US$21.1 billion: ... Hiroshi Yamauchi: 85: US$2.1 billion: Nintendo: 14: Hiroko Takei & family: US$2 ...
With the help of his father, he joined Nintendo in 1977 after impressing the president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, with his toys. [3] He helped create art for the arcade game Sheriff, [4] and was later tasked with designing a new arcade game, leading to the 1981 game Donkey Kong.
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When Yamauchi, the company's president since 1949, retired on May 24, 2002, [26] [27] Iwata succeeded as Nintendo's fourth president with Yamauchi's blessing. [28] He was the first Nintendo president unrelated to the Yamauchi family through blood or marriage since its founding in 1889. [ 29 ]
Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥, 1927–2013), former president of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamazaki ( 山崎 博 , 1946–2017) , Japanese photographer Hiroshi Yamazaki ( 山崎 弘 , born 1937) , Japanese weightlifter
Hiroshi Yamauchi: President and Chairman, Nintendo (1949–2002, 2002–2005) 2013-09-19 Died at 85 in the hospital. Akira Yoshizawa: Origami master 2005-03-14 Died in hospital in Ogikubo, on his 94th birthday. Louis Zamperini: Olympic Athlete and World War 2 prisoner of war 2014-07-02 Died at his home in Los Angeles, California, at age 97.
In 1966, Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo, came to a hanafuda factory where Yokoi was working and took notice of a toy, an extending arm that Yokoi made for his own amusement during spare time while doing maintenance. Yamauchi ordered Yokoi to develop it as a proper product for the Christmas rush.