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The history of Nintendo, a Japan-based international video game company, starts in 1889 when Fusajiro Yamauchi founded "Yamauchi Nintendo", producing handmade hanafuda playing cards. Since its founding, the company has been headquartered in Kyoto. [1] Sekiryo Kaneda was company president from 1929 to 1949, and succeeded by Hiroshi Yamauchi.
Taito Corporation [b] is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets, and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the Taito Trading Company, [c] importing vodka, vending machines, and jukeboxes into Japan. It began production of video games in 1973.
In the mid-1950s, wooden model sales were decreasing due to foreign-made plastic models starting to be imported. This led the company to also manufacture plastic models, starting in 1959. Their first model was the Japanese battleship Yamato. Tamiya's competitors already sold similar models for 350 yen, forcing the company to match the price ...
Nintendo Co., Ltd. [b] is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes and releases both video games and video game consoles . Nintendo was founded in 1889 as Nintendo Koppai [ c ] by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards.
Bandai Co., Ltd. [a] is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo.Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California, and Richmond, London.
Epoch Co., Ltd. (株式会社エポック社, Kabushikigaisha Epokku Sha) is a Japanese toy and computer games company founded in 1958 which is best known for manufacturing Barcode Battler and Doraemon video games, Aquabeads, and the Sylvanian Families series of toys. Its current Representative President is Michihiro Maeda.
Tomy Company, Ltd. [1] (株式会社タカラトミー, Kabushikigaisha Takara Tomī) (trading as Takara Tomy in Asia and Tomy elsewhere) is a Japanese toy company. It was established in 1924 by Eiichirō Tomiyama as Tomiyama Toy Manufacturing Company (富山玩具製作所), became known for creating popular toys like the B-29 friction toy and luck-based game Pop-up Pirate.
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