Nintendo Founded: The Birth of a Gaming Giant
Fusajiro Yamauchi launches Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto to manufacture and sell traditional Hanafuda playing cards, establishing a business that would eventually evolve into a global gaming giant. This humble start in card production laid the concrete foundation for a century-long corporate legacy that later revolutionized interactive entertainment worldwide.
September 23, 1889
137 years ago
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