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Founder of Nintendo Fusajirō Yamauchi ( 山内 房治郎 , Yamauchi Fusajirō , November 22, 1859 – January 1, 1940) , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] originally born as Fusajirō Fukui ( 福井 房治郎 , Fukui Fusajirō ) , was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Yamauchi Nintendo, later known as Nintendo .
Nintendo poster from early Meiji Era, showing the company's hanafuda cards Nintendo's first headquarters was in Kyoto (1889).. Nintendo was founded as Yamauchi Nintendo (山内任天堂) by Fusajiro Yamauchi on September 23, 1889.
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as Nintendo Koppai [c] by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business during the 1960s and acquiring legal status as a public company, Nintendo distributed its first console, the Color TV-Game , in 1977.
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.
As Nintendo released its first home video game console, the Family Computer (rereleased in North America as the Nintendo Entertainment System), Miyamoto made two of the most popular titles for the console and in the history of video games as a whole: Super Mario Bros. (a sequel to Mario Bros.) and The Legend of Zelda (an entirely original title).
Flags at Nintendo's headquarters were lowered to half-staff on July 13. [159] Nintendo's regional offices took a day of silence on July 13 across all of its social media accounts in remembrance of Iwata. [160] Members of the gaming industry and fans alike expressed their sadness on social media over Iwata's death and gratitude for his ...
Minoru Arakawa (荒川 實, Arakawa Minoru, born September 3, 1946) is a Japanese businessman best known as the founder and former president of Nintendo of America, and the co-founder of Tetris Online, Inc.
The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Brazil. The history of the Nintendo Entertainment System spans the 1982 development of the Family Computer, to the 1985 launch of the NES, to Nintendo's rise to global dominance based upon this platform throughout the late 1980s.