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The grandfather of the todays owner starts the production of Japanese playing cards
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The grand son of the Nintendo founder, Hiroshi Yamauchi, decides to change the core business to children's playing cards - The actual "foundation" of the today's company
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Some of the first arcade and a home-use videogame systems are introduced to the public
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Also other companies develop videogame systems - In the course of all the years Sega and Sony stay the closest competitors
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After releasing the "Familiy machine" in Japan as the first market-ready gaming system for the users at home, Nintendo becomes international - until 1986 they sell their Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) together with der Super Mario Bros. all over the world
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Nintendo releases the first portable gaming system - the Gameboy
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Nintendo releases its new gaming system the Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64 - For many gamers the "greatest game of all time"
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The videogame Pokemon is released - One of the most famous videogames ever and till nowadays a transmedia success story
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Continuing to release several new videogame systems (Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS) in the early 2000´s Nintendo plays a major role in the upswing of the gaming business to a worldwide market
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The nextgen Handheld platform
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