-
orgin
Nintendo startedas a small Japanese business, founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi called Nintendo Koppai -
card company
After the founder of Nintendo koppai died in 1949 his grandson Fusajiro Yamauchi took over and renamed it Nintendo Playing Card Company, Limited. -
change
Hiroshi Yamauchi visited the us to negotiate with the United States Playing Card Company but when he found out that his biggest office was in a small building. he then realized that there were limitations to the playing card business -
deal with disney
nintendo made a deal with disney that allowed nintedndo to put disney characters on the nintendo playing cards.Books were sold seperatley that showed diffrent games you could play with the cards. the deal was a sucess and nintendo sold at least 600,000 card packs in the first year! -
Another name change
Due to the huge success of the disney cards Hiroshi Yamauch decided to change Nintendo Playing Card Company, Limited to Nintendo Company, Limited by Hiroshi. Nintendo Company, Limited by Hiroshi started to expirement with other buisness areas like a taxi company, love hotel chain, a food company , food company trying to sell instant rice and many other things including a vacum cleaner! -
the fall of Nintendo Company, Limited by Hiroshi
after all of the other buisnesses nintendo tried failed exept toy making and eventually even the playing cards got old and boring and the price of Nintendo stock fell from 900 yen to 60 yen! -
Nintendo rises again!
drowning in debt, Nintendo struggled to survive in the Japanese toy industry Nintendo hired Gunpei Yokoi as a maintenance engineer for the assembly line -
Gunpei Yokoi moves up the career ladder
Hiroshi Yamauchi was at one of his harfuda factories and noticed an extending arm, which was made by Gunpei Yokoi to play with during his breaks. Yamauchi told Gunpei Yokoi to make it into an official product and to have it done before christmas so it could be sold during the Christmas rush. It was a huge success and sold over a million units! this and many other products such as the Ten Billion Barrel puzzle, ultra machine and the love tester. -
nintendo brings someone else in
Nintendo hired Shigeru Miyamoto to help Hiroshi Yamauchi brainstorm new ideas but little did nintendo know that he would be a living legend in the gaming world and help nintendo to become one of the top gaming companies in the world. -
Step 1 to Game fame!
When video games such as pong first came out nintendo realized that the nex step was to move up from toys to gaming systems and arcade games. First nintendo secured the rights to a home gaming system called the Magnavox Odyssey -
"Color TV Game 6"
after the success of the Magnavox Odyssey nintendo started making their first video game console the Color TV Game 6 -
EVR
Nintendo made their first arcade game called evr race -
Game & Watch and Nintendo Entertainment System
nintendo releases the game and watch handheld system, the first of its kind -
The crash
in 1983 an event known to gamers as The video game crash occured. the crash was caused by a flooded market which caused companies to rush production on consoles and small gaming consoles from other companies were becomig rushed and small companies were trying to get in on the sucess of the gaming market by making deals with hit movies such as the video game version of E.T. however these games were rushed and were not very very good this caused people to loose interst in video game consoles -
Retail fail
Due to the public not liking the rushed consoles the gaming companies could not pay to put the consoles in stores and by June 1983 the rushed consoles and games were put in bins and sold for $5 -
Nintendo's oppurtunity
nintendo knew retailers would refuse any new console or game so they decided to release tan accessory to the N.E.S. nintendo entertainment system called R.O.B. a toy robot that hooked up to system and was used as a controller. this move was considered to be fifth in GameSpy's twenty-five smartest moves in gaming -
gameboy
in 1989 nintendo released another handheld gaming system called gameboy seven years later two compadable games were released called Pokémon Red and Green Versions this game series would expand and sequels are still being made today. -
super fanicom
nintendo released a new console called super fanicom. In August 1991, the Super Famicom was relesed in the U.S. under the name snes -
playstattion
Sony was angry that nintendo dropped them and continued to developing the technogoly they had into the playstation. . Sony's fierce marketing campaigns ensued, and it started to cut into Nintendo and Sega's market share. -
nintendo and sony
nintendo begun designing on a CD-ROM attachment for the SNES/Super Famicom their partner was the american company Sony. however at the last minute Nintendo decided to pull out of the partnership and instead go with a company called Philips, and while no CD-ROM add-on wa smade, several Nintendo properties (namely The Legend of Zelda) appeared on the Philips CD-i media console -
Pokemon
after the first pokemon games red and blue were a huge success in japan they shipped the games to the us and by this the games were so popular in japan an anime was alreday out and was shown 27 days before its release in the us. after the success another game was made called pokemon blue. the pokemon games were popular engough to produce many more games, books, manga and movies. the total of individual pokemon species is 718. in 2013 2 were released selling 4 million copies -
Project Reality
back in 1993 nintendo announced a new 64-bit console codenamed Project Reality that would be capable of rendering fully 3D environments and characters was in development. they came up with the name Ultra 64 for the us but they did not know that KONAMI had already chosen the name ULTRA Nintendo changed the final name of the system to the Nintendo 64. it was a huge succes over 500,000 units on the first day of its release. in 1999 a game was released called super smash bros -
gbc
On October 13, 1998, the Game Boy Color was released in Japan, with releases in North America and Europe a month later. -
Gamecube
in 2001 nintendo released the sequel to the gameboy color called gameboy advance. that same year on September 14, 2001 their next tv console was released called the gamecube. november 21, 2001 a game called super smash bros melee was released and as its predecessor did it featured characters from most of nintendos games -
ds
the nintendo ds was released -
Wii
the goal of nintendos next home console twoards all auduences even ones that would not usually play video games . an example of this is wii fit -
3ds
On February 26, 2011, the Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan
It was released on March 25 and 27 to Europe and the US tghe 3d technogly used was parallax barrier autostereoscopy -
wii u/ conclusion
On April 25, 2011, Nintendo confirmed that they are making a new console to be released in 2012. On June 7, 2011, the console was announced as being named the Wii U. Spanning 3 centuries from a card company to toys to video games nintendo remains at the top competing with sony and microsoft
