Nintendo

History

1889-1972

Nintendo was founded on 1889/9/23, by Fusajiro Yamauchi, starting as a playing card producer.

In 1929, Nintendo experienced it's first leadership transition when Fusajiro Yamauchi stepped down & his son-in-law, Sekiryo Yamauchi, took on the role as president.

On 1940/1/1, Fusajiro Yamauchi died of a stroke at the age of 80.

In 1948, Sekiryo Yamauchi would suffer a near-death stroke. Because of his health, he arranged for his grandson, then 21 year old Hiroshi Yamauchi, to take his role & become the third president of Nintendo on 1949/4/25. Sekiryo Yamauchi would die on 1949/2/2 at the age of ~65.

In 1959, Nintendo made a partnership with Disney to make it's characters into playing cards. This choice was successful enough that Nintendo chose to become a public company in 1962. Nintendo made ¥150,000,000 of revenue in 1964.

1973-2002

In 1973, Nintendo released the Laser Clay Shooting System, their first arcade game.

In 1974, Nintendo released Wild Gunman, an electro-mechanical arcade game, which was adapted for the NES in 1985.

On 1977/6/1, Nintendo released their first console, the Color TV-Game 6, costing ¥9,800. On 1978/6/8, Nintendo released the Color TV-Game 15 & the Color TV-Game Racing 112. On 1979/4/23, Nintendo released the Color TV-Game Block Breaker, as well as the Computer TV-Game in 1980. Collectively, ~3,000,000 units of the Color TV-Game consoles were sold.

On 2002/5/24, Hiroshi Yamauchi would step down as president & Satoru Iwata became the fourth president of Nintendo.

2003-2023

On 2004/11/21, Nintendo released the Nintendo DS, a handheld foldable, double screen display. The Nintendo DS sold 18,790,000 units, or 154,020,000 units including the Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo DSi & Nintendo DSi XL.

On 2013/9/19, Hiroshi Yamauchi died from pneumonia at the age of 85.

On 2015/7/11, Satoru Iwata died from bile duct cancer at the age of 55.