Happy Birthday Nintendo!
A belated birthday greetings to Nintendo – the company who put video gaming, IMHO, into the mainstream. Who can forget spending those boring Saturdays punching the little B A buttons in “Punch-Out” or navigating Mario in the Mushroom Kingdom?
On September 23, 1889 Nintendo was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in Kyoto, Japan and marketed handmade playing cards which soon gained popularity in the country. And did you know that before Nintendo produced the likes of Zelda and King Hippo, it was once a company owning a chain of “love hotels”, a TV station, and a concessionaire producing instant rice. All of these ventures eventually bombed. But soon, Nintendo found success in toys, and later, video games.
It all started with Color TV Games in the 1970s. The Game & Watch was introduced in 1980 and the Family Computer was launched in 1983.
The rest is history. Happy 119th birthday Nintendo!
