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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.
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 .
At a Christmas party in Kyoto, Arakawa met Yoko Yamauchi, daughter of Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi. [9] They married in November 1973. [10] Arakawa, along with his wife and three-year-old daughter Maki, moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1977 for work. [2] [11] A second daughter, Masayo, was born in 1978. [12]
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Yamauchi ordered Yokoi to develop it as a proper product for the Christmas rush. The Ultra Hand was a huge success, and Yokoi was asked to work on other Nintendo toys, including the Ten Billion Barrel puzzle, a miniature remote-controlled vacuum cleaner called the Chiritory, a baseball-throwing machine called the Ultra Machine , and a " Love ...
Sekiryo Kaneda (Japanese: 金田 積良, Hepburn: Kaneda Sekiryō, 1883 – 1949), also known as Sekiryo Yamauchi (山内 積良, Yamauchi Sekiryō), was the second president of what is now Nintendo Co., Ltd., from 1929 to 1949. He married one of the two daughters of Fusajiro Yamauchi, Tei Yamauchi, and took the Yamauchi surname.
Following a downturn and near-bankruptcy, Iwata became the president of HAL in 1993 at the insistence of Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi and brought financial stability. In the following years, he worked in the development of the Pokémon and Super Smash Bros. series. Iwata joined Nintendo as the head of its corporate planning division in 2000.
Fusajirō took the name Yamauchi after an arranged marriage with one of the daughters of the Yamauchi family, who owned a company named Haigan dealing with lime. Since the Yamauchi family had no male heirs to inherit the company, Fusajirō was adopted by the Yamauchis and became the heir to his adoptive father, Naoshichi Yamauchi. [3]