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Nintendo History
Nintendo first began as a Japanese trading card company by Fusajiro Yamauchi. They were known as Nintendo Koppai. They sold trading cards for the trading card game Hanafuda by the end of 1889. The cards were hand-made and Yamauchi had to hire more assistants to produce the cards in mass quantities to keep up with such a high demand.
Yamauchi traveled to America to talk to the United States Playing Card Compant, the dominant company in trading cards. Yamauchi was granted access to use Disney Characters on his trading cards in order to boost sales. The company was then renamed to Nintendo Company Limited. From 1963-1968 Nintendo diversified and set up a taxi company, a love hotel, TV network, a food company trying to sell instant rice, and toys. All of these ventures failed except the toys which they had a little experience in. Playing card sales dropped and stock crashed to 60 yen a share. Nintendo was having troubles surviving in the Japanese toy industry. Nintendo Company Limited was up against bug time companies such as Bandai and Tomy. In 1970 Gunpei Yokoi, who was a Nintendo Mantinace Engineer, developed a extending arm toy that was rushed in store for the Christmas shoppers. The device was called The Ultra Hand, which sold approximately 1.2 million units. Also in this great year for Nintendo Shigeru Miyamoto was hired. Miyamoto in the future created Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Star Fox, and other big shot characters.
Nintendo's first step in the video game industry was securing the rights to distribute Magnavox Odyessy, which was the first video game console ever. Nintendo secured the rights in 1975. Nintendo's first video arcade game
was Computer Othello, which was released in 1978. Many other games were released in the following several years, but among them the most famous were Radar Scope and Donkey Kong. Nintendo's video game division, which was led by Yokoi created some of the most famous arcade titles. The humongously popular Donkey Kong was created in 1981 by Shigeru Miyamoto, and was released on the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and ColecoVision. The release method would be used on several other arcade games generated of the same period. Games include the original Mario Bros. Nintendo then made games for the hand held community, the Game and Watch. Game and Watch is a hand held system that plays the one game it is programmed to. Popular series came out for this system such as Mickey Mouse and Balloon Fight, and big hits such as Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. and the Legend of Zelda. Nintendo then came out the Nes or Nintendo Entertainment System on 1983. The Snes (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was soon to follow on 1983. After that the Game Boy was released on 1989, followed by the Nintendo 64 on 1996, the Gamecube on 2001, the DS (Dual Screen) on 2004 and the Wii on 2006.
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