NINTENDO COMPANY

History and the owners

OWNERS OF NINTENDO JAPAN

Fusajiro Yamauchi 1889 - 1929

Sekiryo Yamauchi 1929 - 1949
Hiroshi Yamauchi 1949 - 2002
Satoru iwata 2002 - 2015
Tatsumaki kimisha 2015 - 2018
Shuntaro furukawa 2018 - present
NINTENDO BRANCHES AND OWNERS AMERICA
AND EUROPE
NINTENDO AMERICA

Minor arakawa
Reggie fils-aime
Doug bowser - current president of Nintendo America

NINTENDO EUROPE

Satoru shibata
Stephan bole - current president of Nintendo Europe
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History
Main article: History of Nintendo

Nintendo's original headquarters in the Kyoto Prefecture in 1889

Former headquarters plate, from when Nintendo was solely a playing card production
company
1889–1956: As a card company
Nintendo was founded as a playing card company by Fusajiro Yamauchi on 23 September
1889.[4] Based in Kyoto, the business produced and marketed hanafuda cards. The
handmade cards soon became popular, and Yamauchi hired assistants to mass-produce
cards to satisfy demand.[5] In 1949, the company adopted the name Nintendo Karuta Co.,
Ltd.,[b] doing business as The Nintendo Playing Card Co. outside Japan. Nintendo
continues to manufacture playing cards in Japan[6] and organizes its own contract bridge
tournament called the "Nintendo Cup".[7] The word Nintendo can be translated as "leave
luck to heaven", or alternatively as "the temple of free hanafuda"
THE GAME VERSION OF MARIO WAS ORIGINALLY A CARPENTER.
In Mario's first appearance in Donkey Kong, he was portrayed as a carpenter. But after a colleague
remarked that his overalls made him look more like a plumber, legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto
changed the character's occupation. This alteration also led to the game being set underground in the
pipe-populated sewers of New York City.
. Game Boy was invented by a janitor.
Okay, so that’s a slight overstatement, but it's not far off. Gunpei Yokoi was working
maintenance on the assembly line in a Nintendo factory when company president
Hiroshi Yamauchi came around. Yamauchi noticed a toy that Yokoi had built in his
spare time. That toy became the Ultra Hand, a best seller for the company, and Yokoi
moved from the assembly line to the design suite. Yokoi then turned a boring old
calculator into Game & Watch, another huge best seller, and then created the Game
Boy: the crown jewel of handheld gaming devices.